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Thomas Allen

USir Thomas Allen ungomunye wama-baritones adume kakhulu emhlabeni. Izwi lakhe lizwakala ezindlini ze-opera ezidumile: I-Covent Garden yaseLondon kanye ne-New York Metropolitan Opera, i-Milan's La Scala, i-Bavarian ne-Scottish Operas, amathiyetha e-Los Angeles, e-Chicago nase-Dallas, kanye nasemikhosini edumile e-Salzburg, e-Glyndebourne, e-Spoleto. .

Ngo-2006, lo mculi wagubha iminyaka yakhe engama-35 e-Covent Garden Theatre, lapho edlale khona izindima ezingaphezu kuka-50.

UThomas Allen wazalwa ngo-1944. Uthole iziqu eRoyal College of Music. Wenza i-debut yakhe ngo-1969 njengo-Figaro (i-Rossini's The Barber yaseSeville) e-Welsh National Opera. Eminyakeni emithathu kamuva, waqala ukucula e-Covent Garden ku-opera ethi Billy Budd ka-B. Britten.

UThomas Allen waduma kakhulu ngokufanisela abalingisi bakaMozart esiteji: Count Almaviva, Don Alfonso, Papageno, Guglielmo kanye, vele, Don Juan. Phakathi kwezinye izindima zakhe “zomqhele” kukhona uBilly Budd (ku-opera kaBritten enegama elifanayo), uPelléas (“Pelléas et Mélisande” kaDebussy), u-Eugene Onegin (ku-opera kaTchaikovsky enegama elifanayo), u-Ulysses (ku-opera ka-L. Dallapikkola wegama elifanayo), u-Beckmesser (“The Nuremberg Meistersingers” kaWagner).

Ukuhlanganyela kwalo mculi kwakamuva kufaka phakathi ukudlala indima yesihloko ku-Gianni Schicchi kaPuccini ku-Spoleto Festival naku-Los Angeles Opera; indima eyinhloko emculweni othi “Sweeney Todd” ka-S. Sondheim, u-Beckmesser (“The Meistersingers of Nuremberg” ka-Wagner), uFaninal (“The Rosenkavalier” ka-R. Strauss), u-Prosdochimo (“The Turk in Italy” by Rossini) , Umculi (“Ariadne auf Naxos” R . Strauss), uPeter (uHansel noGretel kaHumperdinck) noDon Alfonso (kaMozart’s So Do Every) eRoyal Opera House, eCovent Garden; Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus ka-I. Strauss) kuMkhosi we-Glyndeburn kanye nase-Bavarian State Opera; UDon Alfonso, u-Ulysses noDon Giovanni ku-Bavarian State Opera; UDon Alfonso eDallas Opera, iLyric Opera yaseChicago, iSalzburg Easter and Summer Festivals; I-Forester (The Adventures of the Cunning Fox ka-Janáček) e-San Francisco Opera, u-Beckmesser, u-Don Alfonso kanye nomculi (u-Ariadne auf Naxos ka-R. Strauss) e-New York Metropolitan Opera.

Udumo oluncane lwalethwa kumculi kanye nemidlalo yakhe yekhonsathi. Unikeza amakhonsathi e-UK, Europe, Australia, America, usebenzisana nama-orchestra amakhulu kanye nabaqhubi abavelele. Iningi le-repertoire yakhe liqoshwe nezingcweti ezifana no-G. Solti, J. Levine, N. Marriner, B. Haitink, S. Rattle, V. Zavallish no-R. Muti. Ukuqoshwa kwe-opera kaMozart ethi Le nozze di Figaro ngokuhlanganyela komculi ngaphansi kokuqondisa kukaGeorg Solti kwathola indondo yeGrammy ngo-1983.

Kusizini entsha, imidlalo yeciko ihlelelwe e-Covent Garden Theatre, i-Metropolitan Opera, i-Scottish Opera, amatiyetha e-Los Angeles nase-Chicago, kanye nokuqala komdlalo e-State Academic Bolshoi Theatre yaseRussia.

Umculi uthole izihloko eziningi nemiklomelo: uKammersänger we-Bavarian Opera, Ilungu Elihloniphekile leRoyal Academy of Music, uProfesa we-Prince Consort weRoyal College of Music, uProfesa Ovakashele we-Opera Studio yase-Oxford University, iRoyal College of Music. , University of Sunderland, Doctor of Music of Durham and Birmingham University. Ngo-1989, uThomas Allen waklonyeliswa nge-Order of the British Empire, kwathi ngo-1999, ekugubheni Usuku Lokuzalwa Lwendlovukazi, wathola isicoco se-Knight Bachelor (Knight Bachelor).

UThomas Allen ubhala izincwadi (ngo-1993 incwadi yakhe yokuqala ethi, Foreign Parts – A Singer’s Journal yanyatheliswa), enenkanyezi kumadokhumentari (“Mrs. Henderson Presents” kanye “The Real Don Juan”).

Umthombo: Iwebhusayithi yaseMoscow Philharmonic