Paul Groves

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As Lohengrin at the Oslo Opera House , 2015

Paul Groves (born November 24, 1964 in Lake Charles , Louisiana ) is an American opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Groves studied music and singing at the Juilliard School, among others . He made his first stage appearances in the late 1980s, but it wasn't until he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1991 that he achieved international recognition. Since then he has appeared in leading roles at the most important opera houses worldwide, including the Boston Lyric Opera , the De Nederlandse Opera and La Scala , the Los Angeles Opera , the Lyric Opera of Chicago , the Metropolitan Opera , the Opéra National de Paris , the Salzburg Festival , the San Francisco Opera , the Santa Fe Opera , the Vienna State Opera , the Washington National Opera , as well as the Welsh National Opera and the Oslo Opera .

His repertoire includes a number of title roles in French operas, including Faust , La Damnation de Faust , Les Contes d'Hoffmann and Roméo et Juliette , of Idomeneo and Don Ottavio of Mozart, the male leads in the two Iphigenie operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck , the title roles in Lohengrin and Parsifal , but also roles from the 20th century, such as Alwa in Bergs Lulu or Albert Gregor in Janáček's Věc Makropulos .

Quote

"I was living in the Juilliard dormitories across the street from the Met. After the competition, as I walked home, it suddenly hit me - right in the middle of 65th Street - I had just won the Met Auditions! My career had begun! "

- Paul Groves

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  1. ↑ Bio of Paul Groves at the San Francisco Opera ( Memento of the original from January 2, 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 / sfopera.com
  2. ^ Paul Groves at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Groves, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Lake Charles , Louisiana