Thomas Allen |

Thomas Allen

Sir Thomas Allen jẹ ọkan ninu awọn julọ olokiki baritones ni aye. Ohùn rẹ dun ni awọn ile opera olokiki: Ọgbà Covent London ati New York Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala, Bavarian ati Scotland Operas, awọn ile iṣere ni Los Angeles, Chicago ati Dallas, ati ni awọn ayẹyẹ olokiki ni Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Spoleto. .

Ni ọdun 2006, akọrin naa ṣe ayẹyẹ ayẹyẹ ọdun 35 rẹ ni Ile-iṣere Covent Garden, nibiti o ti ṣe awọn ipa iṣẹ ṣiṣe to ju 50 lọ.

Thomas Allen ni a bi ni ọdun 1944. O pari ile-iwe giga Royal College of Music. O ṣe akọbi rẹ ni ọdun 1969 bi Figaro (Rossini's The Barber of Seville) ni Welsh National Opera. Ni ọdun mẹta lẹhinna, o kọkọ ṣe ni Covent Garden ni opera Billy Budd nipasẹ B. Britten.

Thomas Allen di olokiki paapaa fun irisi awọn ohun kikọ Mozart lori ipele: Count Almaviva, Don Alfonso, Papageno, Guglielmo ati, dajudaju, Don Juan. Lara awọn ipa “ade” rẹ miiran ni Billy Budd (ni opera Britten ti orukọ kanna), Pelleas (“Pelléas et Mélisande” nipasẹ Debussy), Eugene Onegin (ninu opera Tchaikovsky ti orukọ kanna), Ulysses (ninu opera L. Dallapikkola). ti kanna orukọ), Beckmesser ("The Nuremberg Meistersingers" ti Wagner).

Awọn ilowosi to ṣẹṣẹ ti akọrin pẹlu ṣiṣe ipa akọle ni Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ni Spoleto Festival ati ni Los Angeles Opera; ipa akọkọ ninu orin “Sweeney Todd” nipasẹ S. Sondheim, Beckmesser (“The Meistersingers of Nuremberg” nipasẹ Wagner), Faninal (“The Rosenkavalier” nipasẹ R. Strauss), Prosdochimo (“Turk ni Italy” nipasẹ Rossini) , Akọrin ("Ariadne auf Naxos" R. Strauss), Peter (Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel) ati Don Alfonso (Mozart's So Do All) ni Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus nipasẹ I. Strauss) ni Glyndeburn Festival ati ni Bavarian State Opera; Don Alfonso, Ulysses ati Don Giovanni ni Bavarian State Opera; Don Alfonso ni Dallas Opera, awọn Lyric Opera of Chicago, awọn Salzburg Easter ati Summer Festivals; Forester (Awọn Adventures of the Cunning Fox nipasẹ Janáček) ni San Francisco Opera, Beckmesser, Don Alfonso ati Olorin (Ariadne auf Naxos nipasẹ R. Strauss) ni New York Metropolitan Opera.

Ko si olokiki ti o dinku si akọrin ati awọn iṣẹ ere orin rẹ. O funni ni awọn ere orin ni UK, Yuroopu, Australia, Amẹrika, ṣe ifọwọsowọpọ pẹlu awọn akọrin nla ati awọn oludari ti o tayọ. Pupọ julọ repertoire rẹ ni a ti gbasilẹ pẹlu iru awọn ọga ti ṣiṣe iṣẹ ọna bii G. Solti, J. Levine, N. Marriner, B. Haitink, S. Rattle, V. Zavallish ati R. Muti. Gbigbasilẹ ti Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro pẹlu ikopa ti akọrin labẹ itọsọna Georg Solti gba ẹbun Grammy ni ọdun 1983.

Ni akoko tuntun, awọn iṣere olorin ni a ṣeto ni Covent Garden Theatre, Opera Metropolitan, Opera Scotland, awọn ile iṣere ni Los Angeles ati Chicago, bakanna bi iṣafihan akọkọ ni Ile-iṣere Bolshoi Academic State of Russia.

Olorin naa ti gba ọpọlọpọ awọn akọle ati awọn ẹbun: Kammersänger ti Bavarian Opera, Ọmọ ẹgbẹ Ọla ti Royal Academy of Music, Ọjọgbọn ti Prince Consort ti Royal College of Music, Alejo Ọjọgbọn ti Opera Studio ti Ile-ẹkọ giga Oxford, Royal College of Music , University of Sunderland, Dokita ti Orin ti Durham ati Birmingham Universities. Ni 1989, Thomas Allen ni a fun ni aṣẹ ti Ijọba Gẹẹsi, ati ni ọdun 1999, ni ayẹyẹ Ọjọ-ibi Queen, gba akọle Knight Bachelor (Knight Bachelor).

Thomas Allen kọ awọn iwe (ni 1993 iwe akọkọ rẹ, Awọn apakan Ajeji – A Singer's Akosile ti a tẹjade), ti ṣe irawọ ni awọn iwe-ipamọ (“Iyaafin Henderson Presents” ati “The Real Don Juan”).

Orisun: Oju opo wẹẹbu Philharmonic Moscow