Alan Opie
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Alan Opie
Education
He attended
Sadler's Wells Opera (now the English National Opera, ENO). He became a Principal baritone there while still a student.[2]
Opera career
Opie has also sung with the other major UK opera companies
Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. He has also sung at the Bayreuth Festival. In 1996, Opie switched his status at the ENO from company member to regular guest, enabling him to make his début at La Scala, Milan. There he created the role of Outis in the opera of the same name by Luciano Berio. [citation needed
]
In March 2017, he performed the role of Arbace in Mozart's Idomeneo at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
He has recorded for
Grammy Awards in 1996 and 1998 for his involvement in, respectively, recordings of Britten's Peter Grimes and Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
.
Awards
In 1997, his performance in the title role of
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to music.[3][4]
Personal life
Opie and his wife Kathleen (married since 1970) have a son and a daughter. [citation needed]
Operatic roles
Performed and/or recorded, listed alphabetically:
Role | Opera | Composer |
---|---|---|
Aristæus I | The Mask of Orpheus | Birtwistle |
various | Death in Venice | Britten |
Balstrode | Peter Grimes | Britten |
Beckmesser | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Wagner |
Chairman Mao | Madame Mao | Bright Sheng |
Don Alfonso | Così fan tutte | Mozart |
Don Carlo | Ernani | Verdi |
Diomede | Troilus and Cressida | Walton |
Eisenstein, Falke | Die Fledermaus | Johann Strauss II |
Enrico | Lucia di Lammermoor | Donizetti |
Falstaff, Ford | Falstaff | Verdi |
Faninal | Der Rosenkavalier | Richard Strauss |
Faraone | Mosè in Egitto | Rossini
|
Faust | Doktor Faust | Busoni |
Fieramosca | Benvenuto Cellini | Berlioz |
Figaro | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini |
Forester | The Cunning Little Vixen | Janáček |
Germont | La Traviata |
Verdi |
Malatesta | Don Pasquale | Donizetti |
Marcello | La Bohème |
Puccini |
Marquis de la Force | Dialogues of the Carmelites | Poulenc |
Melitone | La Forza del Destino |
Verdi |
Miller | Luisa Miller | Verdi |
Montano | Otello | Verdi |
Nabucco | Nabucco | Verdi |
Outis | Outis | Berio |
Papageno | Die Zauberflöte |
Mozart |
Paolo | Simon Boccanegra | Verdi |
Rigoletto | Rigoletto |
Verdi |
Sancho Panza | Don Quichotte | Massenet |
Sharpless | Madam Butterfly |
Puccini |
Sid | Albert Herring | Britten |
Smirnov | The Bear | Walton |
Der Spielmann | Königskinder | Humperdinck |
Stiva | Anna Karenina | Hamilton |
Taddeo | L'Italiana in Algeri |
Rossini |
Tonio | Pagliacci | Leoncavallo |
Ulisse | Ulisse | Dallapiccola |
Valentin | Faust | Gounod |
Selected concert works
(performed and/or recorded, listed alphabetically)
Work | Composer |
---|---|
Ein Deutsches Requiem | Brahms |
Das Klagende Lied |
Mahler |
Elijah | Mendelssohn |
Ezio | Handel |
Hugh the Drover | Vaughan Williams |
Oedipus Rex | Stravinsky |
Requiem | Fauré |
The Dream of Gerontius | Elgar |
Ultima Rerum | Gerard Victory |
Selected discography
Grammy Award-winning recordings in bold.
Year | Work/s | Composer/s | Artists | Label |
---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | Otello | Verdi | Chicago Symphony Orchestra et al. cond. Sir Georg Solti |
Decca |
1993 | Bethlehem | Boughton | City of London Sinfonia et al. cond. Alan Melville |
Hyperion |
1994 | Hugh the Drover | Vaughan Williams | Corydon Orchestra and Singers et al. cond. Matthew Best |
Hyperion |
1996 | Peter Grimes | Britten | City of London Sinfonia et al. cond. Richard Hickox |
Chandos |
1997 | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Wagner | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus cond. Sir Georg Solti |
Decca |
1998 | Pagliacci | Leoncavallo | London Philharmonic Orchestra et al. cond. David Parry |
Chandos |
2000 | The Barber of Seville | Rossini | ENO Orchestra and Chorus cond. Gabriele Bellini |
Chandos (recorded 1994) |
Rigoletto | Verdi | ENO Orchestra and Chorus cond. Mark Elder |
Chandos | |
2002 | Death in Venice | Britten | London Sinfonietta cond. Graeme Jenkins |
Kultur DVD |
2003 | Peter Grimes | Britten | ENO Orchestra and Chorus cond. David Atherton |
Kultur DVD |
Classical Brubeck | Dave Brubeck | Dave Brubeck Quartet et al. | Telarc | |
2004 | Alan Opie sings Bel Canto Arias | various | Chandos |
References
- ISBN 0-85967-894-6.
- ^ "Thoroughly Impressed" (PDF). Sdo.media.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Notice of OBE award to Alan Opie, bbc.co.uk; accessed 15 March 2014.
- ^ "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 12.
Sources
- Sadie, Stanley, ed. (1992). The ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2.