Ryan Speedo Green

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Ryan Speedo Green (born April 1, 1986 in Suffolk , Virginia ) is an American opera singer with the bass / bass-baritone voices .

Life

Ryan Speedo Green comes from a rural area in the southern United States. He grew up in a low-income, African-American family in a trailer park . His father was a bodybuilder ; from him came the idea to give his son the middle name Speedo. Ryan Speedo Green was considered a problem child. He was placed under juvenile detention at the age of 12 after threatening his mother and brother. During his high school days, the family moved to a housing estate with barracks.

Green graduated from Florida State University , where he received a Masters Degree in Master of Music, and the Hartt School of Music ; There he obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in 2008. He is a multiple winner of singing competitions. In March 2011, he was one of five winners in the National Grand Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions . On the occasion of the Metropolitan Singing Competition, New York Times journalist Daniel Bergner wrote an article entitled Sing for Your Life , which appeared in the New York Times Magazine in May 2011 and described Green's life. The publishing house HarperCollins then expressed interest in the publication of a biography of Green's life path. In 2014 he received the George London Foundation Award. In 2014 he also won First Prize from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and was a finalist in the Palm Beach Opera Singing Competition. He is also a 2014 graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera .

He had guest engagements at the Juilliard School of Music as Commendatore / Komtur in Don Giovanni and at the Colorado Opera. As a permanent member (so-called resident artist) of the Opera Colorado from 2010 to May 2011, he sang Colline in La Bohème (autumn 2010) and Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola . In July / August 2012 he sang Colline again at the Central City Opera in Denver , Colorado .

In the 2012/13 season he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera. He sang the Mandarin in Turandot (first role) and the Second Grail Knight in Parsifal , in a new production with the conductor Daniele Gatti . In the 2013/14 season he appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Uncle Bonze in Madama Butterfly and as Carciere / Closer in Tosca . In the 2014/15 season he took over the role of Rambo in the opera The Death of Klinghoffer by John Adams at the Metropolitan Opera .

In the 2013/14 season in March 2014 he sang the role of Second Soldier in Salome in a concert performance at the Boston Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Andris Nelsons ; his partners were Gun-Brit Barkmin (Salome), Evgeni Nikitin (Jochanaan), Gerhard Siegel (Herodes) and Jane Henschel (Herodias). In July 2014 in Vienna , Virginia, he sang the role of Lieutenant Zuniga in Carmen in an open-air performance in the Filene Center, an amphitheater, in a Wolf Trap Opera Company production with the National Symphony Orchestra .

Ryan Speedo Green has been a permanent member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble since September 2014 . There he performed in the 2014/15 season a. a. as Angelotti in Tosca , Sparafucile in Rigoletto , Basilio in The Barber of Seville , 5th Jew in Salome , Fouquier-Tinville in Andrea Chénier , monk in Don Carlo , Titurel in Parsifal and as King (Il Re) in Aida . In the 2015/16 season he took over at the Vienna State Opera a. a. again the roles of Don Basilio, Colline and Angelotti, and for the first time Timur in Turandot (also in the 2016/17 season) and Warlaam in Boris Godunow .

In January / February 2016 he appeared at the Lille Opera House as Ferrando in Il trovatore . In June 2016 he sang Ferrando in the Liller Production at the Théâtre de Caen. In July / August 2016 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as 3rd King in Die Liebe der Danae . In the 2016/17 season he sang Colline in La Bohème for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. In the United States he also sang at the San Antonio Opera House (October 2016, Escamillo in Carmen ) and at the Houston Grand Opera (April / May 2017, as Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail ).

In May / June 2018 Green appeared at the Vienna State Opera as Sparafucile in Rigoletto . In the 2018/19 season ber will be on stage at the MET as King in Aida .

As a concert singer, Ryan Speedo Green sang the bass parts a. a. in The Messiah , in the Mozart Requiem , in the Verdi Requiem (with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and Chorale) and in the coronation mass of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra). Several times he sang the bass part in the 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven , first in June 2014, the Philadelphia Orchestra , furthermore with the Florida Symphony Orchestra and the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Sing for Your Life in: New York Times Magazine, May 19, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c Opera Colorado singer Ryan Speedo Green wins Met finals in: Denver Post, March 25, 2011. Retrieved April 12, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d TheGrio's 100: Ryan Speedo Green, allowed opera to change the course of his life portrait; TheGrio.com on February 27, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2015
  4. ↑ La Bohème performance review. Colorado Opera Archives. Retrieved April 25, 2015
  5. ↑ With Nelsons and BSO, 'Salome' at full blaze concert review in The Boston Globe March 7, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2015
  6. ↑ Wolf Trap Opera's 'Carmen' could use a little more of the original's edginess performance review in The Washington Post July 27, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2015
  7. ^ A Singer's Journey: From Solitary Confinement to the Met Opera . In: New York Times, September 30, 2016. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  8. ↑ BASS-BARITONE: Ryan Speedo Green . Metropolitan Opera , accessed December 16, 2018 .
  9. ^ Tovey lifts the orchestra, and Beethoven concert review in The Washington Post, July 1, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Green, Ryan Speedo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer with bass / bass-baritone voices
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffolk , Virginia , USA