Stuart Burrows

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Album cover (2009)
Myfanwy sung by Stuart Burrows

Stuart Burrows (born February 7, 1933 in Cilfynydd ) is a Welsh opera singer with a lyric tenor voice .

Career

Stuart Burrows was born in the south of Wales. He first worked as a teacher in the city of Bargoed . After winning the Welsh National Eisteddfod Award in 1954, he studied singing at Trinity College, University of Wales, Carmarthen . He made his operatic debut in Cardiff in 1963 as Ismail in Verdi's Nabucco with the Welsh National Opera Company . He then sang the roles of Rodolfo in La Bohème , Macduff in Macbeth , Duke in Rigoletto and Ernesto in Don Pasquale . In 1965 he was invited by Igor Stravinsky to Athens to perform Oedipus Rex , where he sang the title role. This was followed by engagements at the Royal Opera House in London, where he made his debut as Beppe in Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci . In London he then sang Fenton in Verdi's lyrical comedy Falstaff , Tamino in Mozart's Magic Flute , Elvino in La sonnambula , Lenski in Eugene Onegin, Alfredo in La traviata and the title roles in Mozart's Idomeneo and Gounod's Faust .

That was the start of his international career. In the following years he had engagements at all major opera stages in Europe and America. In 1967 he made his debut at the San Francisco Opera in Mozart's Magic Flute in the role of Tamino, which would become one of his star roles. In March 1970 he had his first appearance at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires , where he sang Hoffman in Hoffmann's Tales under the direction of Peter Maag . He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1970 as Tamino. In the same year he sang Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni in Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Herbert von Karajan . He made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan as Faust in Berlioz 's opera La damnation de Faust .

His collaboration with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden lasted 25 years, he was engaged at the Met for 12 seasons in a row .

His repertoire included works by Adams, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Handel, Mallote, Massenet, Offenbach, Schubert, Sullivan, Tippett and Tchaikovsky. Burrows enjoyed worldwide recognition as a Mozart singer and interpreter of lyrical tenor roles in operas by Puccini , Verdi , Donizetti and Bellini .

Awards

  • 1981: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Wales, Cardiff
  • 1989: Honorary Fellowship from Trinity College Carmarthen
  • 1992: Honorary Fellowship from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  • 2007 Order of the British Empire

Recordings (selection)

  • Hector Berlioz : Requiem . Orchester National de France, conductor: Leonard Bernstein . Vinyl, 1976
  • Georg Friedrich Handel : The Messiah . London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Karl Richter ; with Helen Donath, Anna Reynolds, Stuart Burrows: Vinyl, Deutsche Grammophon 1974
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : La Clemenza di Tito . Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Direction: Colin Davis ; with Lucia Popp, Janet Baker, Yvonne Minton; Frederica von Stade, Stuart Burrows (title role). Vinyl, Philips 1977
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Cosi fan tutte . Royal Opera House Orchestra; Head: Colin Davis ; with Stuart Burrows (Ferrando), Thomas Allan, Richard Van Allan, Kiri Te Kanawa, Agnes Baltsa, Christa Mayer, Daniela Mazzucato, Nxos 1981
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio . The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, directed by Colin Davis ; with Christiane Eda-Pierre, Stuart Burrows (Belmonte), Norma Burrowes, Robert Tear, Robert Lloyd and Curd Jürgens. Vinyl, Philips 1979
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute . Vienna Philharmonic, conductor: Georg Solti ; with Martti Talvela, Stuart Burrows (Tamino), Cristina Deutekom, Pilar Lorengar, Yvonne Minton, Hetty Plümacher, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Hermann Prey, Renate Holm, René Kollo. La Gran Opera: CD & Book Collection, audio CD, Decca / Polymedia 1996
  • Jacques Offenbach : Hoffmann's stories . The London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Julius Rudel ; with Beverly Sills, Norman Treigle, Stuart Burrows (Hoffmann), Susanne Marsee, Nico Castel, Robert Lloyd, Patricia Kern, Raimund Herincx, Bernard Dickerson, John Noble; Vinyl, His Master's Voice 1973
  • Peter Tschaikowsky : Eugene Onegin . Lyrical scenes in three acts. Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, conductor: Georg Solti ; with Bernd Weikl, Teresa Kubiak, Stuart Burrows (Lenski), Julia Hamari u. a. Vinyl, Decca 1975

Stuart Burrows International Voice Award

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David has hosted the Stuart Burrows International Voice Award since 2006 . The competition was set up in honor of Burrow to promote young singers and is endowed with a total of £ 5,000, of which £ 4,000 goes to the winner. The competition is advertised internationally, the age limit for participants is 35 years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuart Burrows, biography accessed December 13, 2017.
  2. ^ Stuart Burrows International Voice Award
personal data
SURNAME Burrows, Stuart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh opera singer with a lyric tenor voice
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Cilfynydd