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ʻO Thomas Allen

ʻO Sir Thomas Allen kekahi o nā baritones kaulana loa ma ka honua. Ke kani nei kona leo ma nā hale opera kaulana: London's Covent Garden a me New York Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala, the Bavarian and Scottish Operas, theaters in Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas, a me nā ʻahaʻaina kaulana ma Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Spoleto .

I ka makahiki 2006, hoʻolauleʻa ka mea mele i kāna makahiki 35 ma ka Covent Garden Theatre, kahi āna i hana ai ma luna o 50 mau hana operatic.

Ua hānau ʻia ʻo Thomas Allen i ka makahiki 1944. Ua puka ʻo ia mai ka Royal College of Music. Ua hana ʻo ia i kāna hoʻomaka ma 1969 ʻo Figaro (Rossini's The Barber of Seville) ma ka Welsh National Opera. ʻEkolu mau makahiki ma hope mai, ua hoʻokani mua ʻo ia ma Covent Garden ma ka opera Billy Budd na B. Britten.

Ua kaulana loa ʻo Thomas Allen no ka hoʻohālikelike ʻana i nā kiʻi o Mozart ma ke kahua: Count Almaviva, Don Alfonso, Papageno, Guglielmo a, ʻoiaʻiʻo, ʻo Don Juan. Ma waena o kāna mau hana "lei aliʻi" ʻo Billy Budd (ma ka opera a Britten o ka inoa hoʻokahi), Pelléas ("Pelleas et Mélisande" na Debussy), Eugene Onegin (ma ka opera a Tchaikovsky o ka inoa hoʻokahi), ʻo Ulysses (ma ka opera a L. Dallapikkola. o ka inoa like), Beckmesser (“The Nuremberg Meistersingers” of Wagner).

ʻO nā hana hou a ka mea mele, ʻo ia ka hoʻokō ʻana i ke poʻo inoa ma ka Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ma ka Spoleto Festival a ma ka Los Angeles Opera; ka hana nui ma ka mele "Sweeney Todd" na S. Sondheim, Beckmesser ("The Meistersingers of Nuremberg" na Wagner), Faninal ("The Rosenkavalier" na R. Strauss), Prosdochimo ("The Turk in Italy" by Rossini) , Mea hookani pila ("Ariadne auf Naxos" R . Strauss), Peter (Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel) a me Don Alfonso (Mozart's So Do Everyone) ma ka Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus na I. Strauss) ma ka Glyndeburn Festival a ma ka Bavarian State Opera; ʻO Don Alfonso, ʻo Ulysses lāua ʻo Don Giovanni ma ka Bavarian State Opera; ʻO Don Alfonso ma ka Dallas Opera, ka Lyric Opera o Chicago, ka Salzburg Easter and Summer Festivals; The Forester (The Adventures of the Cunning Fox by Janáček) at the San Francisco Opera, Beckmesser, Don Alfonso and the Musician (Ariadne auf Naxos by R. Strauss) ma New York Metropolitan Opera.

ʻAʻole i emi iki ka kaulana i ka mea mele a me kāna mau hana ʻahamele. Hāʻawi ʻo ia i nā ʻaha mele ma UK, ʻEulopa, Australia, ʻAmelika, hui pū me nā mea hoʻokani pila a me nā alakaʻi koʻikoʻi. Ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia ka hapa nui o kāna repertoire me nā haku alakaʻi ʻoihana e like me G. Solti, J. Levine, N. Marriner, B. Haitink, S. Rattle, V. Zavallish a me R. Muti. ʻO kahi hoʻopaʻa ʻana o ka opera a Mozart Le nozze di Figaro me ke komo ʻana o ka mea mele ma lalo o ke alakaʻi ʻana a Georg Solti i loaʻa kahi makana Grammy ma 1983,

I ka manawa hou, ua hoʻonohonoho ʻia nā hana a ka mea pena ma ka Covent Garden Theatre, ka Metropolitan Opera, ka Scottish Opera, nā hale kiʻiʻoniʻoni ma Los Angeles a me Chicago, a me kahi hoʻomaka ma ka State Academic Bolshoi Theatre o Russia.

Ua loaʻa i ka mea mele he nui nā poʻo inoa a me nā makana: Kammersänger o ka Bavarian Opera, Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, Professor of the Prince Consort of the Royal College of Music, Visiting Professor of the Opera Studio of Oxford University, Royal College of Music. , Ke Kulanui o Sunderland, Kauka mele o Durham a me Birmingham University. I ka makahiki 1989, ua loaʻa iā Thomas Allen ke Kauoha o ka Emepera Pelekāne, a i ka makahiki 1999, ma ka hoʻolauleʻa ʻana i ka lā hānau o ka Mōʻīwahine, ua loaʻa iā ia ka inoa ʻo Knight Bachelor (Knight Bachelor).

Ua kākau ʻo Thomas Allen i nā puke (i ka makahiki 1993 kāna puke mua, Foreign Parts – A Singer's Journal i paʻi ʻia), i hōkū ʻia ma nā palapala palapala ("Mrs. Henderson Presents" a me "The Real Don Juan").

Source: Moscow Philharmonic pūnaewele