Liam Bonner
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Liam Bonner (born March 18, 1981) is a retired professional opera singer (baritone) from Pittsburgh, PA.
In his former career as an artist, Bonner was praised by Opera News for his "rich, versatile voice" and "beautiful instrument". Highlights of his performing career included his Metropolitan Opera,[1] debut in 2010 as Morales in Carmen and the role of Horatio in Hamlet, which was one of the Metropolitan Opera's HD broadcasts that same season. [citation needed]He created the role of Lieutenant Audebert in the Pulitzer Prize winning opera, Silent Night, with Minnesota Opera and reprised the role with Opera Philadelphia and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.[citation needed]
Bonner's repertoire included a majority of Britten baritone roles including the title role in Billy Budd with
Liam enjoyed mostly a stateside career, though notable international performances included Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with English National Opera in London,[citation needed] Henri de Valois in Chabrier's Le roi malgré lui with the Wexford Festival Opera in Wexford, Ireland, and The Elder Son in Britten's The Prodigal Son with Teatro dell'Opera Roma in Rome, Italy.
Bonner is a former member of the Houston Grand Opera,[2] Studio, as well as San Francisco Opera's Merola Program and a Studio and Apprentice Artist at Central City Opera. He is the recipient of a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshanna Foundation, a first-prize winner of the Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, a national semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and an award winner from the George London Foundation, the Lotte Lenya Competition,[3] the First International Pavel Lisitsian Baritone Competition in Moscow, Russia,[4] and the Houston Grand Opera's Eleanor McCollum Competition.
Education
Bonner attended
Performance career
In the 2010–2011 season Bonner sang Pelléas in
]In the 2009–2010 season, Bonner made his Washington National Opera debut in the title role of Hamlet under the baton of Plácido Domingo [citation needed]and returned to the Houston Grand Opera as Belcore in L'elisir d'amore.[citation needed]
Bonner's Metropolitan Opera debut was playing Morales in Carmen in 2010, and later, Horatio in Hamlet which was one of the Metropolitan Opera's HD broadcasts that season.[6]
In 2010, Bonner sang his first performances of Malatesta in
As a special alumnus guest artist with The
Bonner was a recurring cast member at Houston Grand Opera, where he has performed roles including:[citation needed]
- Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Count in Le nozze di Figaro
- Redburn in Billy Budd
- The baritone soloist in Christopher Theofanidis' The Refuge (a recording of which is available commercially on the Albany Records label)
- Harašta in The Cunning Little Vixen
- Silvano in Un ballo in maschera
- Hortensius in La fille du regiment
- The Witch in Hänsel und Gretel
- Morales in Carmen
- Dancaïro in Carmen[citation needed]
In 2007 Bonner joined The
As a soloist, Bonner has performed with the
References
- ^ [1] The Met Opera Family Profile
- ^ "Houston Grand Opera :: Liam Bonner". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-05-17. Houston Grand Opera Profile
- ^ "Lotte Lenya Competition Updates on Past Winners". Archived from the original on 2011-03-14. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
- ^ Charles Ward, "He didn’t play the balalaika but he still won" Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Houston Chronicle, February 12, 2008
- ^ [2] Carnegie Hall Bio
- ^ [3] Columbia Artists Management Inc.
- ^ "21C MEDIA GROUP | Bard Music Festival Weekend Two "Berg the European"". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-05-17. Press Release from 21C Media Group
- ^ "Bard Music Festival 2010 Weekend Two | the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-05-17. Bard Music Festival Schedule
- ^ "Highlights from the 2007 Performance Season". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-05-17. The Wolf Trap Opera 2007 Credits