Robert Crowe

Robert Crowe (* in Escondido ) is an American opera singer ( countertenor , soprano ).

Life

Robert Crowe studied at Millsaps Methodist College, Boston University School for the Arts, and Manhattan School of Music . In 1995 he won the Metropolitan Opera Competition in New York . On May 21, 2017, he received his doctorate from Boston University with a thesis on the castrato Giovanni Battista Velluti . He lives in Frankfurt a. M., Germany .

repertoire

Crowe sings mainly castrato parts in operas of the baroque and pre-classical periods , a. a. Nerone in L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi , Sesto in Giulio Cesare or the title role in Rodrigo by Georg Friedrich Handel or Idamante in Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . At the Göttingen Handel Festival in 2003 he sang Achill in Deidamia in a production by Peer Boysen , and on the occasion of the first revival of Giovanni Battista Ferrandini's Opera seria Catone in Utica on the 250th anniversary of the opening of the Munich Cuvilliés Theater under the direction of Christoph Hammer ( New Court Chapel Munich). In 2003 he played Cesare.

Modern works are also part of his repertoire, e.g. He sang the title role in the world premiere of The Little Prince by Nikolaus Schapfl based on the story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten .

Other composers whose operatic roles Crowe performed include: Johann Christian Bach , John Eccles , Giovanni Battista Ferrandini , Charles Gounod , Johann Adolph Hasse , Jacques Offenbach , Niccolò Piccinni , Henry Purcell , Alessandro Scarlatti , Barbara Strozzi and Antonio Vivaldi .

Crowe worked with conductors such as René Jacobs and Ivor Bolton . He has also worked in the concert and oratorio area.

Qualifications

• 1992 Bachelor of Music, magna cum laude, Millsaps College
• 1994 Master of Music, Boston University School for the Arts
• 1995 Professional Studies Certificate, Manhattan School of Music
• 2017 PhD, Boston University

Competitions and Prizes

• 1995 National Winner Metropolitan Opera Competition
• 1995 2nd Prize National Opera Competition
• 1995 Manhattan School of Music Most Promising Career in Opera
• 1995 Richard F. Gold Career Development Award
• 1998 Sullivan Foundation Grant

Sound carrier

• Giovanni Ferrandini : Catone in Utica - Munich: Music production Dieter Oehms, P 2004.
• Georg Friedrich Handel: The Complete Amen, Alleluia Arias, HWV 269–77 (with music by Church, Croft, Pittoni and Anon). Ensemble Il Furioso (Victor Coelho, David Dolata and Juvenal Correa-Salas) 2016 Toccata Classics of London (TOCC 0337).
• Johann Christian Bach : Alessandro nell'Indie - performance in the palace theater Neues Palais in Potsdam. Academy for Early Music Berlin , director: Andreas Spering . Singers: John Bowen (Alessandro), Olga Pasitschnyk (Cleofide), Johanna Stoijkovic (Erissena), Robert Crowe (Poro), Jan Kobow (Timagene), Oleg Ryabets (Gandarte). A recording was broadcast on the radio on August 22, 2000 on BR 4 .

Web links

• Works by and about Robert Crowe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert Crowe website
• Portrait on belcantoartist.com
• Brief information
• Management: Artists Management Verena Keller Lohwisstrasse 52 8123 Ebmatingen (Switzerland)
• "No make-up!" ... Robert Crowe GB Opera Magazine
• Lynn Jolicoeur / Sacha Pfeiffer: "Shocked By His Own Voice: Male Soprano Soars In World's Smallest Vocal Category"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Metropolitan Opera National Council Winners . New York Metropolitan Opera website. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
2. ^ "Giovanni Battista Velluti in London, 1825-1829: Literary Constructions of the Last Operatic Castrato," doctoral dissertation (PhD in historical musicology). Dissertation committee: Joshua Rifkin (Boston University), Victor Coelho (Boston University) and Silke Leopold ( University of Heidelberg ).
3. ↑ Opera on Radio 2000 on euro-opera.de , accessed on January 24, 2015.