Tobias Greenhalgh

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Tobias Greenhalgh

Tobias Greenhalgh (born in Rochester (New York) ) is an American opera singer ( baritone ). From 2014 to 2016 he was a member of the Young Ensemble of the Theater an der Wien .

Life

Greenhalgh completed his vocal studies at the Juilliard School , where he sang the Malatesta in Don Pasquale , the Ferryman in Britten's Curlew River and Demetrius in his Midsummer Night's Dream , the Aeneas in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas , as well as the Voice of Pokaye and the second Gestapo Officer in Davies ' fellow students! . He graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree in music , then won a number of competitions and the renowned Opera News quickly characterized him as “a thoroughly engaging performer”, “so clearly headed for success”.

The singer took on Figaro and Fiorello in Barbiere di Siviglia , Hermann and Schlehmil in Les Contes d'Hoffmann , and Schaunard in La Bohème at the Palm Beach Opera . Greenhalgh's repertoire also includes the title role in Don Giovanni , Bob in Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief and Pelléas in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande , a role he sang in part at the Music Academy of the West in 2012 . In spring 2013 he played Samuel in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance at the Opera Theater of Saint Louis . At this house he was also one of the first cast of Royce Vavreks and Ricky Ian Gordon's new opera 27 in June 2014 - as a critic and art collector Leo Stein and as a photographer Man Ray .

Greenhalgh has appeared several times at the New York Festival of Song , in Brockport (NY) he sang the baritone solo in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana , and at St. George's Choral Society both Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Five Mystical Songs and Mendelssohn's First Walpurgis Night . He has also appeared as a concert singer at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts , with the Opera Orchestra of New York and at the Toronto Summer Music Festival . He sang two recitals at Alice Tully Hall and presented Hugo Wolf's songs based on poems by Eduard Mörike at the Brooklyn Art Song Society .

In the summer of 2014 he sang in Poulenc's Les mamelles de Tirésias as well as in Bizet's Carmen with the Wolf Trap Opera Company in Fairfax County . He has been a member of the Young Ensemble of the Theater an der Wien since the 2014/15 season and made his debut - alongside Viktorija Bakan as Tatjana - in the title role of Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin at the Vienna Chamber Opera . The critics praised his "really beautiful baritone." Renate Wagner: "That sounds like the future."

social commitment

Greenhalgh-founded with John Brancy the operation Superpower , a superpower opera project for children that relates to bullying at school position.

“Our superpowers are opera singing. And we teach the kids how to discover their superpowers. So, everybody's a superhero. That's our message. "

- Tobias Greenhalgh : Interview with PBS Newshour

Awards

Web links

Commons : Tobias Greenhalgh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A source ( [1] ) names Greece (New York) as the place of birth
  2. ↑ Der neue Merker: Kammeroper: Eugen Onegin , accessed on October 3, 2014
  3. ^ Artists Learn Art of Business to Brave Tough Economic Times , accessed October 4, 2014
  4. ↑ Liederkranz Prize Winners , accessed on October 4, 2014
  5. ↑ derStandard.at - Raehann Bryce-Davis wins Hilde Zadek singing competition . APA notification dated April 13, 2015, accessed June 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Greenhalgh, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester (New York)