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ANDREW
STENSON
(
Ferrando
)
Previously at Lyric:
Gen Watanabe/
Bel
Canto
(2015/16, world
premiere).
The American tenor was recently heard
at Ireland’s Wexford Festival Opera
(Ernesto/Jacopo Foroni’s
Margherita
) and
England’s Glyndebourne Festival (Ernesto/
Don Pasquale). Last season Stenson sang
Tamino/
The Magic Flute
(Seattle Opera),
Frederic/
The Pirates of Penzance
(Palm
Beach Opera), and the title role/
Candide
(both Opéra National de Bordeaux and
Théâtre du Capitole). Stenson has been a
Young Artist with San Francisco Opera’s
Merola Opera Program (
Postcard from
Morocco
), The Santa Fe Opera (Head Man/
The Letter
), Glimmerglass Opera (Martin/
The Tender Land
, Jimmy O’Keffe/John
Musto’s
Later the Same Evening
), Seattle
Opera (Arturo/
Lucia di Lammermoor
, title
role/
Werther
, Ernesto/
Don Pasquale
), and
the Met’s Lindemann Program (Beppe/
Paglicacci
, Demetrius/
The Enchanted Island
).
Among other important operatic credits are
Tonio/
La fille du régiment
, (Seattle Opera,
WashingtonNational Opera), Belmonte/
The
Abduction from the Seraglio
(Utah Opera),
Danny Chen/Huang Ruo’s
An American
Soldier
(Washington National Opera), and
Brighella/
Ariadne auf Naxos
(Glyndebourne
debut). Stenson is an alumnus of Luther
College and the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory. Winner of a Sara
Tucker Study Grant from the Richard
Tucker Foundation and a Richard F.
Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana
Foundation, Stenson was a major award
winner in the Opera Index competition
and second-prize winner in both the Queen
Sonja International Vocal Competition
and the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation
competition.
JOSHUA HOPKINS
(
Guglielmo
)
Previously at Lyric:
Mercutio/
Romeo and
Juliet
(2015/16);
Tadeusz/
The Passenger
(2014/15).
The Canadian baritone’s major successes
include numerous performances of four
Mozart roles: Guglielmo (Frankfurt),
Don Giovanni (Salt Lake City), Count
Almaviva (Glyndebourne, Dallas, Verbier
Festival), and Papageno (Santa Fe,
Washington, Toronto). Highlights of
Hopkins’s 2017/18 season include Rossini’s
Figaro (Oslo), Mercutio/
Romeo and Juliet
(Metropolitan Opera), and baritone soloist
/
Messiah
(Toronto Symphony Orchestra).
He has also been heard in roles as varied
as Dr. Falke/
Die Fledermaus
(Santa Fe),
Argante/
Rinaldo
(Glyndebourne), Cecil/
Maria Stuarda
(Met, company premiere),
Marcello/
La bohème
(Houston, Toronto),
Sid/
Albert Herring
(Santa Fe), and Junior/
Bernstein’s
A Quiet Place
(New York City
Opera).
On the concert stage, Hopkins
has been featured with the New York
Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra,
San Francisco Symphony, Orchestra of
St. Luke’s, Cleveland Orchestra, Canada’s
National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Spain’s
Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de
Asturias. At Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall,
he premiered Michael Tilson Thomas’s
Rilke Songs
and collaborated with tenor
Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake in
music of Benjamin Britten. The baritone
has recorded a solo CD,
Let Beauty Awake
,
featuring songs of Barber, Bowles, Glick,
and Vaughan Williams. Hopkins is a winner
of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and
holds the Sylva Gelber Foundation Award
from the Canada Council for the Arts.
ALESSANDRO
CORBELLI
(
Don Alfonso
)
Previously at Lyric:
Seven roles since
1986/87, most
recently Don
Magnifico/
Cinderella
(2015/16); Bartolo/
The Barber of Seville
(2013/14); Dr.
Dulcamara/
L’elisir d’amore
(2009/10).
Long celebrated worldwide for the Mozart,
Rossini, and Donizetti comic repertoire, this
season the Italian baritone will reprise his
definitive portrayals of Don Geronio/
Il turco
in Italia
(Amsterdam’s National Opera), the
title role/
Don Pasquale
(Vienna State Opera),
and Taddeo/
L’italiana in Algeri
(Salzburg
Festival, opposite Cecilia Bartoli). Corbelli’s
pre-eminence in Rossini comedies has
included recent performances as Magnifico
with the Munich, Metropolitan, Vienna,
and LA opera companies. The Turin-born
artist is also his generation’s most acclaimed
interpreter of Bartolo/
The Barber of Seville
(most recently Glyndebourne, Lyric, Covent
Garden, and the major houses of Palermo,
Toulouse, and Los Angeles), Dulcamara/
L’elisir d’amore
(Lyric, Met, Madrid,
Leipzig, Barcelona, San Francisco, Houston,
among other houses), Sulpice/
La fille du
régiment
(Covent Garden, Paris, Met), and
Don Pasquale (the recent Glyndebourne
production mounted especially for him
is available on DVD). Also renowned as
Don Alfonso (Vienna), Falstaff (Toulouse,
Glyndebourne), and Gianni Schicchi
(Met, Turin, Glyndebourne), Corbelli has
triumphed in sterner roles such as Sharpless/
Madama Butterfly
(Torre del Lago) and, at
Covent Garden, both Michonnet/
Adriana
Lecouvreur
and the Marquis/
Linda di
Chamounix.
The baritone’s close association
with Covent Garden includes nearly 100
performances since his 1988 debut as
Rossini’s Taddeo. Corbelli appears in 20
roles on CD and eight on DVD.