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MATTHEW ROSE
(
Baron Ochs
)
Lyric Opera debut
Following his Lyric
debut, the British bass
will continue this season
as Raimondo/
Lucia di
Lammermoor
(Covent
Garden), King Marke/
Tristan und Isolde
(English National Opera), and Bottom/
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Glyndebourne).
Born in Brighton, Rose studied at Seaford
College and Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of
Music before joining the Jette Parker Young
Artists Program at Covent Garden. He has
since returned for such roles as Polyphemus/
Acis and Galatea
, Colline/
La bohème
, Masetto/
Don Giovanni
(Japan tour), Harašta/
The
Cunning Little Vixen
, Sparafucile/
Rigoletto
,
Sarastro/
The Magic Flute
, Timur/
Turandot
,
and Talbot/
Maria Stuarda
. Rose has performed
at the major opera companies of Milan, Santa
Fe, London, Cardiff, Houston, Munich, Lyon,
Madrid, New York, and London. Among his
many prestigious concert and recital credits
are New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival,
BBC Proms, London’s Wigmore Hall,
Washington’s Kennedy Center, Amsterdam’s
Concertgebouw, and the Edinburgh, Brighton,
Chester and Cheltenham festivals, as well as
the major orchestras of Los Angeles, London,
Dresden, Louisiana, Boston, and Rome.
Among Rose’s recordings are two critically
acclaimed solo recital discs, Schubert’s
Winterreise
and
Schwanengesang
. On DVD he
can be seen at Covent Garden (
Carmen
,
Faust
,
Acis and Galatea
), Glyndebourne (
Billy Budd
,
The Rake’s Progress
), and with the Netherlands
Radio Chamber Orchestra (Haydn’s
Creation
).
Among his numerous awards are the 2006
John Christie Prize at Glyndebourne, the
2007 Independent Opera/Wigmore Hall
Fellowship, and the 2012 Critics Circle Award
for Exceptional Young Talent.
MARTIN GANTNER
(
Faninal
)
Previously at Lyric Opera:
Dr. Falke/
Die Fledermaus
(2006-07).
The German baritone
began the current season
as Faninal at Amsterdam’s
Dutch National Opera and will reprise this
highly praised portrayal in Paris and Munich
later this season. Other recent highlights
include Pizarro/
Fidelio
(Vienna State Opera)
and Eisenstein/
Die Fledermaus
(Dresden’s
Semperoper). After winning first prize in
Berlin’s prestigious VDMK competition, he
made his operatic debut as Count Almaviva/
The Marriage of Figaro
(Koblenz) and was
subsequently invited to join the cast for the
world premiere of Hans Werner Henze’s
Das verratene Meer
, later reprising the work
at La Scala. Gantner joined the Bavarian
State Opera’s ensemble from 1993 to 2007,
singing roles as diverse as Mozart’s Papageno,
Guglielmo, and Figaro, Rossini’s Dandini,
Donizetti’s Malatesta, Puccini’s Ping and
Marcello, Dr. Falke/
Die Fledermaus
, Silvio/
Pagliacci
, Harlekin/
Ariadne auf Naxos
, and
Ottokar/
Der Freischütz
. The baritone made
his 2001 American debut in Los Angeles
as the Herald/
Lohengrin
and sang his first
Faninal in Cologne the following year. His
extensive repertory further encompasses
Jochanaan/
Salome
(St. Gallen, Mannheim,
Salzburg Festival, Brussels), the Speaker/
The
Magic Flute
(Salzburg, Paris), and Kurwenal/
Tristan and Isolde
(Berlin, Antwerp, Florence).
Among Gantner’s concert credits are
Carmina
Burana
, Brahms’s
Requiem
, Bach’s
St. Matthew
Passion
, Mendelssohn’s
Elijah
and
St. Paul
,
and Britten’s
War Requiem
. His discography
encompasses
Salome
,
Così fan tutte
, and
Schumann’s
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
. In
2005 Gantner was awarded the coveted rank
of
Kammersänger
in Munich.
RODELL ROSEL
(
Valzacchi
)
Previously at Lyric
Opera:
19 roles since
2005-06, most recently
Spoletta/
Tosca
(2014-15);
Monostatos/
The Magic
Flute
, Four Servants/
The
Tales of Hoffmann
(both
2011-12).
A Ryan Opera Center alumnus and former
winner in the Grand Finals of the Metropolitan
Opera National Council Auditions, the
Filipino-American tenor debuted at the Met
as Valzacchi in 2009. Rosel recently made
his role debut as Don José/
Carmen
(Center
Stage Opera) and created Anthony Candolino/
Jake Heggie’s
Great Scott
(The Dallas Opera).
Later this season Rosel reaches a major
career milestone with his first Mime/
Siegfried
(Houston Grand Opera). Highlights in recent
seasons also include appearances at HGO (
Das
Rheingold
,
Ariadne auf Naxos
,
Billy Budd
), Los
Angeles Opera (
Falstaff
,
Tosca
), The Santa Fe
Opera (Ong Chi Seng/Paul Moravec’s
The
Letter
, world premiere), the Met (Nathanaël/
Les contes d’Hoffmann
, HD transmission),
Pittsburgh Opera (
Madama Butterfly
), Wolf
Trap Opera Company (John Musto’s
Volpone,
nominated for a Grammy on CD), Florentine
Opera (title role/
Albert Herring
), the Cleveland
Orchestra
(Salome
), and Ravinia (
The Marriage
of Figaro, The Magic Flute
,
Idomeneo
). Rosel
graduated from Santa Monica College and the
University of California Los Angeles (
Albert
Herring
, leading roles of Mozart, Rossini and
Ravel, tenor soloist in Haydn’s
The Creation
,
Handel’s
Messiah
, Mozart’s
Requiem
). Among
Rosel’s numerous awards and scholarships
are top awards from the Palm Beach Opera
Vocal Competition, the Lotte Lenya Vocal
Competition, and the José Iturbi International
Music Competition.
MEGAN MARINO
(
Annina
)
Lyric Opera debut
Following her role and
company debut in Lyric’s
Der Rosenkavalier
, the
Italian-American mezzo-
soprano will debut at Fort
Worth Opera as Rosina/
The Barber of Seville
,
a character she has recently portrayed with
Florida Grand Opera and St. Petersburg Opera
(Florida). Marino will also return to Des
Moines Metro Opera for Meg Page/
Falstaff
.
Last season she sang Miriam and Ruth/Weill’s
The Road of Promise
(American premiere) at
Carnegie Hall and returned to The Santa Fe
Opera as amember of the company’s prestigious
apprentice artist program, portraying the Page/
Salome
and Claire/Jennifer Higdon’s
Cold
Mountain
(world premiere), in addition to
joining the rosters of the Metropolitan Opera
and San Francisco Opera. Other important
credits include her Metropolitan Opera
debut as an Unborn Child/
Die Frau ohne
Schatten
, Varvara/
Katya Kabanova
(Spoleto
Festival U.S.A.), Rossini’s Cinderella (Green
Mountain Opera Festival), Mercédès/
Carmen
(Opera Coeur d’Alene), Pitti-Sing/
The Mikado
(Virginia Opera), Anita/
West Side Story
(Aspen Music Festival), and Hansel/
Hansel
and Gretel
(Opera Iowa). Marino’s concert
credits include a
bel canto
concert program
alongside Lawrence Brownlee in Washington,
D.C., as well as soloist appearances in Haydn’s
Missa Sancti Nicolai
(Carnegie Hall), Handel’s
Messiah
(Cincinnati), and Bach’s
St. John
Passion
(Beirut). Among her numerous awards
is the 2016 William Matheus Sullivan Musical
Foundation singer award.
RENÉ BARBERA
(
A Singer
)
Previously at Lyric Opera:
Twelve roles since 2009-
10, most recently Ernesto/
Don Pasquale
(2012-13);
Brighella/
Ariadne auf
Naxos
, Edgardo and Lord
Arturo Bucklaw/
Lucia
di Lammermoor
(both 2011-12).