Stuart Skelton

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Stuart Skelton (born January 1, 1968 in Sydney ) is an Australian opera singer with a tenor voice ( hero tenor ).

Life

education

Stuart Skelton studied in his hometown of Sydney and at the Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati .

Career

The repertoire of Skelton includes many challenging roles of the opera, including Richard Wagner's Lohengrin, Parsifal, Rienzi, Siegmund in Die Walküre and Erik in The Flying Dutchman to Richard Strauss ' Kaiser in Die Frau ohne Schatten and Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos , I, Camille Saint-Saëns ' Samson in Samson et Dalila , Ludwig van Beethoven's Florestan in Fidelio and Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes in the opera of the same name.

His voice and musical prowess have taken Skelton to the leading concert and opera stages in the world, including Berlin , Hamburg , London , Madrid , Munich , Paris , Vienna , Beijing , Hong Kong , Shanghai , Tokyo , Los Angeles , New York City , San Francisco and Sydney .

He has worked with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy , Daniel Barenboim , Jiři Bèlohlavek , James Conlon , Sir Andrew Davis , Christoph von Dohnányi , Christoph Eschenbach , Asher Fisch , Mariss Jansons , Philippe Jordan , James Levine , Fabio Luisi , Lorin Maazel , Sir Charles Mackerras , Sir Simon Rattle , David Robertson , Donald Runnicles , Michael Tilson-Thomas and Simone Young and with orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker , the Boston Symphony Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic , the London Symphony Orchestra , the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra , the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , the Vienna Philharmonic and the Radio Symphony Orchestras in Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main as well as the symphony orchestras of Sydney, Adelaide , Melbourne , Tasmania and Western Australia .

Skelton's engagements in 2014 included his debut in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's Otello at the English National Opera in London, the performance of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde at the Zurich Opera , and Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Hamburg Philharmonic under Simone Young and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles , Beethoven's Missa Solemnis under Philippe Jordan in the annual TV Christmas concert at La Scala in Milan and a return to his key role as Peter Grimes at the English National Opera in David Alden's acclaimed production. He was also in the title role of Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis, in concert performances of the third act of Richard Wagner's Siegfried with the Opéra national de Bordeaux under Paul Daniel and of Peter Grimes under Michael Tilson-Thomas and to be heard in concerts with Sir Antonio Pappano and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia .

In 2015 Skelton made his debut as Tristan in Tristan und Isolde with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under David Robertson. He returned to the Bavarian State Opera as Samson in Samson et Dalila and as Siegmund in Die Walküre . Other engagements in 2015 included Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, concert appearances by Peter Grimes with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Fidelio with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Leoš Janáček's Glagolitic Mass and Arnold Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler's song by the Erde with the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Edward Elgar's The Kingdom with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Beethoven's Fidelio with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the Blossom Music Festival with the Cleveland Orchestra.

In 2016 he could be heard at the Easter Festival Baden-Baden and at the English National Opera as Tristan in Tristan und Isolde and in this role opened the 2016/17 opera season of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City together with Nina Stemme , in a new production under the Directed by Sir Simon Rattle. At the Baden-Baden Summer Festival he could also be heard as Siegmund in Die Walküre .

His roles and engagements in 2017 included Lohengrin at the Opéra National de Paris , Laca Klemeň at the Bavarian State Opera and the Munich Opera Festival, Siegmund at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Beijing Music Festival, as Peter Grimes at the Bergen International Festival and at the Edinburgh International Festival, Florestan at the BBC Proms and Otello at the Bergen National Opera.

On August 1, 2019, Stuart Skelton gave a guest performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London with Mahler's song cycle Das Lied von der Erde as part of the BBC Proms summer concert series together with Claudia Mahnke , Leif Ove Andsnes and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Edward Gardner .

repertoire

Opera

composer Opera role
Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio Florestan
Alban Berg Wozzeck Drum major
Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes Peter Grimes
Benjamin Britten The turn of the screw prolog
Benjamin Britten The turn of the screw Peter Quint
Luigi Dallapiccola Il prigioniero Grand Inquisitor
Luigi Dallapiccola Il prigioniero Jailer
Antonín Dvořák Dimitrij Dmitrij
Antonín Dvořák Rusalka The prince
Leoš Janáček Jenůfa Laca
Leoš Janáček Káťa Kabanová Boris
Ruggero Leoncavallo Pagliacci Canio
André Previn A Streetcar Named Desire Mitch
Giacomo Puccini Tosca Cavaradossi
Camille Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila Samson
Richard Strauss Ariadne on Naxos Bacchus
Richard Strauss The woman without a shadow Emperor
Igor Stravinsky Oedipus Rex Oedipus
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Queen of Spades Hermann
Giuseppe Verdi Otello Otello
Richard Wagner The Flying Dutchman Erik
Richard Wagner Lohengrin Lohengrin
Richard Wagner Parsifal Parsifal
Richard Wagner Rienzi Rienzi
Richard Wagner Tristan and Isolde Tristan
Richard Wagner The Valkyrie Siegmund
Carl Maria von Weber Euryanthe Adolar
Carl Maria von Weber The Freischütz Max
Alexander von Zemlinsky A Florentine tragedy Guido

Vocal works

composer plant
Ludwig van Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Ludwig van Beethoven 9th symphony
Benjamin Britten Spring Symphony
Benjamin Britten Was a requiem
Antonín Dvořák requiem
Edward Elgar The Dream of Gerontius
Edward Elgar The Kingdom
Leoš Janáček Glagolitic mass
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Songs of Farewell op.14
Gustav Mahler The Song of the Earth
Gustav Mahler The lamenting song
Arnold Schoenberg Gurre songs ( Waldemar )
Giuseppe Verdi requiem

Awards

Discography (selection)

Studio recordings

Live opera recordings

  • 2009: Siegmund in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre , with the conductor Simone Young in Hamburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuart Skelton Australian operative tenor. Retrieved January 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Harriet Cunningham: Singer's heroism stops short of naked roles. The Sydney Morning Herald, November 30, 2012, accessed January 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b STUART SKELTON. Retrieved January 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f STUART SKELTON TENOR. Retrieved January 29, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Stuart Skelton at Operabase (engagements and dates).
  6. ↑ Prom 18: Mahler & Britten. BBC, August 1, 2019, accessed August 22, 2019 (UK English).
  7. ↑ International Opera Awards Winners 2014. Accessed January 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Skelton, Stuart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian opera singer in tenor (heroic tenor) voice
DATE OF BIRTH 1st January 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney