Mikel Dean

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Mikel Dean (born September 19, 1954 in San Francisco , † February 18, 2008 in Mannheim ) was an American opera singer ( baritone ) who was particularly successful in the Italian subject.

Life

Dean studied singing at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester . He sang at the Stadttheater Gießen and was a member of the ensemble at the Stadttheater Pforzheim and from 1989 at the Theater Augsburg .

From 1995 until his death he was a member of the ensemble of the Nationaltheater Mannheim . There he sang the great roles of the Italian subject such as Rigoletto, Jago, Renato, but also Wagner roles such as Amfortas and Kurwenal, and quickly became a crowd favorite.

Dean made guest appearances at the opera houses in Bonn , Düsseldorf , Munich , Hamburg , Turin , Trieste and Nancy. He sang in concerts in the USA and Europe. At the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival he performed under the direction of Leonard Bernstein .

In 2008 Dean died at the age of 53 after a short, serious illness of the consequences of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease . The Mannheim director Regula Gerber characterized him in an obituary: "Outstanding and fascinatingly powerful he was not only as a singer and performer, but also as a colleague whose warmth and sunny disposition really gave you." Soloists, choir and orchestra took part in the opera house of the National Theater Farewell to Dean with a memorial event at which arias and choirs by Giuseppe Verdi could be heard.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mikel Dean at Operabase (engagements and dates).
  2. Message on the website of the Nationaltheater, February 2008, quoted from forum.festspiele.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / forum.festspiele.de  
  3. ↑ A moving farewell to Mikel Dean . Frank Herkommer's website, March 4, 2008, accessed December 30, 2016.