Creo que este bajo debe tener unos 46-50 años, a tenor de su CV que os trascribo más abajo de su página web oficial (y por la foto que aparece en la misma). Yo lo estuve escuchando hace una semana en Londres, en el Coliseum (sede de la ENO) en una opera de Britten (Billy Budd) y me gustó bastabte, probablemente el mejor de todos (por cierto, una opera en la que sólo aparecen hombres, no hay ni una sola cantante. Se desartrolla en una barco inglés de finales del siglo XVIII) . Sus datos son:
Born in Lancashire, John studied at the RMCM and with Otakar Kraus.
John sings regularly with The Royal Opera and ENO, and has appeared with all the major British opera companies.
John has sung at the Bayreuth Festival every year since 1988, as Wotan, the Wanderer, King Marke, Titurel, Gurnemanz, and Hagen. In the Bayreuth Festival 2003 he is singing the Dutchman in the new Der Fliegende Hollander production.
He has also appeared in Berlin (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin State Opera), Geneva, Lisbon, Stuttgart, Vancouver, San Francisco, New York, Pittsburgh, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna, Bologna, Florence, Tokyo and the Orange, Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg festivals. His repertory includes Hans Sachs, Gurnemanz, Heinrich der Vogler, Hagen, Baron Ochs, Leporello, Claggart, King Fisher, Méphistophélès (Gounod’s Faust), the Villains (les Contes d’Hoffmann), King Philip (Don Carlos) and the title roles in Oberto (also directed), Attila, Mosè in Egitto, Le nozze di Figaro, Boris Godunov and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle.
He has made many videos and recordings and was made a CBE in 1997. In June 2005 John was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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Número 276 - Zaragoza - Diciembre 2023
