James King |

ʻO James King

mele ʻAmelika (tenor). Ua ho'omaka 'o ia ma ke 'ano he baritone i ka makahiki 1961. I ka makahiki 1962, ua hana 'o ia i kāna ho'omaka mua (San Francisco, hapa o Jose). Loaʻa ka lanakila nui i ka mea mele ma hope o kāna hoʻomaka mua ʻana ma ka Berlin Deutsche Oper (1963, Lohengrin part). Ua hana ʻo ia ma Munich, ma ka Salzburg Festival (1963, ka ʻāpana o Achilles ma Gluck's Iphigenia en Aulis). Mai ka makahiki 1965, hana mau 'o ia ma ka Bayreuth Festival (mau hapa o Sigmund ma Valkyrie, Parsifal, etc.). Mai ka makahiki 1965 ma ka Metropolitan Opera (debut as Florestan in Fidelio), kahi i hīmeni ai ʻo ia a hiki i 1990. ʻO nā hana ʻē aʻe ʻo Manrico, Calaf, Othello. I ka makahiki 1983 ua hana ʻo ia me ka lanakila nui ma La Scala ma Cherubini's Anacreon. I ka makahiki 1985, hīmeni ʻo ia ma Covent Garden i ka hapa o Bacchus ma Ariadne auf Naxos na R. Strauss. Ua hoʻopaʻa ʻo ia i nā hana he nui i loko o nā opera e nā mea haku mele Kelemania, ʻo Wagner, R. Strauss, Hindemith, kahi a mākou e ʻike ai i nā kuleana o Albrecht ma ka opera hope loa ʻO Artist Mathis (i alakaʻi ʻia e Kubelik, EMI), Parsifal (i alakaʻi ʻia e Boulez, DG) .

E. Tsoodokov