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Kurt Streit (born October 14, 1959 in Itazuke , Japan) is an American-Austrian opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Kurt Streit was born in Japan to American parents. He studied at the University of New Mexico with Marilyn Tyler.

Streit began his vocal activities at the opera houses in San Francisco, Santa Fe, Dallas, the Texas Opera Theater and the Milwaukee Skylight Comic Opera. In Europe he appeared for the first time at the Hamburg State Opera in operas by Mozart, Donizetti, and Rossini. He had further appearances at music festivals in Schwetzingen, Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg and Glyndebourne. Streit sang at the Vienna State Opera , at the Theater an der Wien , at the Metropolitan Opera New York , at Covent Garden , and at La Scala in Milan , both at the Bastille and at the Palais Garnier in Paris, Teatro Real and Zarzuela in Madrid and Munich , Brussels, Leipzig, Düsseldorf and San Francisco. He was nominated for a Grammy for his sound recording of Brahms' love song waltz . Streit is known as a Mozart specialist and has appeared in 23 different productions of Mozart's Magic Flute and seven different productions of Mozart's Idomeneo. His repertoire ranges from works by Handel and Monteverdi to Beethoven and composers of the 19th and 20th centuries such as Wagner, Johann Strauss, Berlioz and Janáček.

In 2005 he became an Austrian citizen and lives with his son in Styria.

Recordings (selection)

  • Das Rheingold , Wagner, Oehms OC935 (Weigle; Dicke, Arwady; Stensvold, Schmeckenbecher; Frankfurt Museum Orchestra)
  • Die Zauberflöte , Mozart, Decca 470 056-2 (Östman; Bonney, Jo, Cachemaille, Hagegard, Sigmundsson, Watson, Drottningholm Court Theater Orchestra; Also released on L'Oiseau-Lyre 440 085-2)
  • Così fan tutte , Mozart, Erato 2292-45475-2 (Cuberli, Bartoli, Rodgers, Furlanetto, Tomlinson, Berlin Phil., Barenboim)
  • Così fan tutte , Mozart, EMI 5 56170 2 (Sir Simon Rattle; Finley, Allen, Martinpelto, Hagley, Murray)
  • Requiem , Mozart, BMG Classics (Nikolaus Harnoncourt; Christine Schäfer; Bernarda Fink; Gerald Finley; Concentus Musicus Wien; Arnold Schoenberg Choir; released on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 82876 58705 2) *
  • The Abduction from the Seraglio , Mozart, Sony S2K 48053 (Bruno Weil; Studer, Szmytka, Gambill)
  • 9th Symphony , Beethoven, EMI (Sir Simon Rattle; Vienna Philharmonic; Barbara Bonney; Thomas Hampson; Birgit Remmert)
  • Mass in D minor , Cherubini, EMI 7243 5 57166 2 (Riccardo Muti; Tilling, Fulgoni, Tomasson)
  • Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln, Schmidt, Teldec -8573-81040 (Harnoncourt; Vienna Philharmonic; Roeschmann, Hawlata, Lipovsek, Lippert)
  • Liebesliederwalzer , Brahms, EMI 5 55430 2 (Bonney, Bär, von Otter, German)
  • Partenope , Handel, Chandos CHAN0717 (Christian Curnyn; Lawrence Zazzo, Stephen Wallace, Rosemary Joshua ; Early Opera Company)
  • The Yeoman of the Guard , Gilbert & Sullivan, Philips 438-138-2 ( Neville Marriner , Terfel, Allen)
  • Othmar Schoeck Lieder , Schoeck, Jecklin JD 679-2 (Rieger)
  • Paul Bunyan , Britten, Chandos Chan9781 (Live Recording Covent Garden, Hickox)
  • Echo et Narcisse , Gluck, Harmonica Mundi 405210/2 (Rene Jacobs)
  • The Philosopher's Stone , Mozart, et al., TelArc 80508-2CD (Boston Baroque / Pearlman)
  • DVD Idomeneo , Mozart, Dynamic DV33463
  • DVD Rodelinda , Handel, Warner Music Vision -3984-23024-2, (William Christie; Anna Caterina Antonacci, Andreas Scholl)
  • Blu-ray: Médée , BelAir Classiques, (Stephan Metge; Nadja Michael , Christianne Stotijn, Gaëlle Arquez )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ arts.jrank.org
  2. ↑ a b c David M. Cummings: International who's who in music and musicians' directory (in the classical and light classical fields), Volume One, 2000/2001
  3. ↑ a b kurtstreit.com ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kurtstreit.com
  4. ↑ lucernefestival.ch ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lucernefestival.ch
  5. ↑ theater-wien.at
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r kurtstreit.com ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kurtstreit.com
personal data
SURNAME Quarrel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Austrian opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Itazuke , Japan