Norman Reinhardt

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Norman Reinhardt (born in Hickory , North Carolina ) is an American opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Norman studied at Asbury College and the University of Kentucky , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Music .

He was inducted into the Houston Grand Opera Studio and quickly found the opportunity to appear in leading roles at that opera house. He sang lyrical and bel canto parts there, such as Arbace in Mozart's Idomeneo , Ernesto in Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Lucano in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea . Reinhardt was recognized for his clear timbre and strong stage presence, he is very popular with the Texan audience and returns regularly to the Houston Grand Opera , including as Lysander in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream or as Bénédicte in Berlioz ' Béatrice et Bénédict .

From 2009 to 2012 Norman Reinhardt was a member of the ensemble at the Leipzig Opera, where he was able to establish himself as a lyric tenor or in the field of tenore di grazia . He developed a broad Mozart repertoire, including Tamino in the Magic Flute , Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Ferrando in Così fan tutte . In Leipzig he also took over Count Almaviva in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia , Lenski in Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin , Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata and Alfred in the Fledermaus by Johann Strauss . He was also heard and seen at this house as Jack O'Brien in the Moritat Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill .

After Leipzig hard commitment opened up to a career as a freelance singer that made him among others to the Theater Basel and to the City Theater casting , to the National Theater in Prague and to the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava and at the Opéra de Lille led further to the Garsington Opera to the Bregenz and Salzburg festivals as well as some opera houses in the United States . In Lille he sang Alfredo, at the Garsington Opera Festival Belmonte in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and in Prague he celebrated a great personal success as Essex in Britten's rarely performed opera Gloriana .

Norman Reinhardt performs regularly in Austria: in 2010 he was a guest at the Theater an der Wien in a concert performance of Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein and in 2015 as Arturo in a Christof Loy production of Bellini's La straniera . In 2013 and 2014 he was a much-praised Tamino in Die Zauberflöte on the lake stage of the Bregenz Festival , in the farewell production by David Pountney , conducted by the American Patrick Summers . In 2016 he made his debut at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and the Summer Festival there as Tony in Bernstein's West Side Story . Maria was sung by Cecilia Bartoli , it was staged by Philip Wm. McKinley , and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela , conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, played .

Reinhardt has so far been seen and heard in a number of roles at the Basel Theater in Switzerland : in 2012 as Váňa Kudrjáš in Janáček's Káťa Kabanová and in 2013 as Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon , and also as Fritz in Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein . Reinhardt also regularly returns to his home country and continues to sing at the Houston Grand Opera - 2011 as Jaquino in Beethoven Fidelio , 2014 as Cassio in Verdi's Otello , 2015 as Lenski in Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin and 2016 as Enoch Snow in Carousel after Liliom by Ferenc Molnár , set to music by Richard Rodgers . However, he was hired by the opera houses in Central City, Kansas City and Salt Lake City, as first tenor in Wells The Seven Deadly Sins , as Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and as Tom Rakewell in Stravinski's The Rake's Progress . In 2014 he also played the latter role at the Leipzig Opera.

He has sung under conductors such as Paolo Arrivabeni , Harry Bickett , Jesús López Cobos , Stephen Lord and Ulf Schirmer and has worked with a number of well-known directors, including Irina Brook , Jürgen Flimm , Peter Konwitschny , Christoph Marthaler , Damiano Michieletto , Laurent Pelly and James Robinson .

Debuts at the Hamburg State Opera (as Nemorino) and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris (as Pollione in Bellinis Norma ) are announced for 2016 . In 2017 she made her role debut as Leicester in Rossini's Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra - first at the Theater an der Wien, then at the Opéra royal de Versailles .

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personal data
SURNAME Reinhardt, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Hickory , North Carolina