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Arnold Bezuyen Tenor
World-renowned tenor Arnold Bezuyen has captivated audiences around the globe with his exquisite voice, well-focused theatrical finesse and incomparable musicality. His vast repertoire includes a wide range of characters from Loge and Mime to Erik and Siegfried.
In the 2016/17 season, Mr. Bezuyen performed as Herodes in Salome at Teatro Massimo Bellini, Siegfried in Götterdämmerung at the Spring Festival in Tokyo, and Die Knusperhexe in Hänsel und Gretel at Theater Chemnitz. In 2015/16, he sang Hauptmann in Wozzeck at the Enesco Festival in Bucharest, Alfred in Die Fledermaus and Gregor in The Makropulos Case at Innsbruck and traveled to Tokyo giving concerts of songs by Richard Strauss. In recent seasons he has appeared as Loge in Das Rheingold under the baton of Marek Janowski in Tokyo, Arindal in Die Feen in Leipzig, Mr. Broucek in Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr. Broucek at Frankfurt Opera, Erik in Der fliegende Höllander at the National Theater Wiesbaden, Mime in Das Rheingold and Siegfried in Bucharest, and Siegfried in Götterdämmerung in Friedrichshafen.
Arnold Bezuyen began his career at theaters in Augsburg and Bremen singing lyric roles such as Pinkerton and Rodolfo. In 1998 he made his Bayreuth debut performing Loge in Das Rheingold with James Levine and has appeared in the festival program every year through 2013. In 2011, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Loge in Das Rheingold. He has had great successes at many of the world’s leading opera houses, including at Covent Garden (David in Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Grand Teatro del Liceu (Shujsky in Boris Godunov), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Matteo in Arabella), La Scala, Teatro Petruzzelli (Jim Mahoney in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), Palermo Opera, Vienna Staatsoper (Alfred in Der Fledermaus), Hamburg State Opera (Števa in Jenůfa), Los Angeles Opera (Loge in the Ring Cycle), Opera de Bastille and Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse (title role in the World Premiere of Phillippe Fénelon’s Faust).
Mr. Bezuyen has worked with many highly respected conductors, including: Pierre Boulez (Les Noces with the Orchestra de Paris), James Conlon, Sir Andrew Davies, Christoph Eschenbach, Adam Fischer, Marek Janowski, Julia Jones, Gustav Kuhn (as Loge in Das Rheingold at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl), James Levine, Fabio Luisi, Andris Nelsons, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Simon Rattle (The Seven Deadly Sins at the Osterfestspielen Salzburg), Christian Thielemann (as Loge in Das Rheingold at Bayreuth), and Jaap van Zweden.
A versatile singer on the stage, Arnold Bezuyen’s work in the concert hall is equally diverse and has taken him from Santiago de Compostela, to the Musikverein in Vienna, to Monte Carlo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and many places in between. His extensive concert repertoire includes Mozart’s and Verdi’s Requiems, Mahler’s Das klagende Lied and Das Lied von der Erde, Zemlinsky’s King Kandaules, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Symphony No. 9.
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Arnold Bezuyen Tenor
Recent & Upcoming Engagements
Herodes Salome Teatro Massimo Bellini 2017 Siegfried Götterdämmerung Spring Festival, Tokyo 2017 Die Knusperhexe Hänsel und Gretel Theater Chemnitz 2016 Alwa Lulu Wuppertaler Bühnen 2016 Gregor Makropulos Case Innsbruck 2015/16 Alfred Die Fledermaus Innsbruck 2015/16 R. Strauss Concert: Strauss Songs Tokyo 2015 Hauptmann Wozzeck Enesco Festival, Bucharest 2015 Broucek The Excursions of Mr. Broucek Frankfurt 2014 Arindal Die Feen Leipzig 2014 Loge Das Rheingold Tokyo 2014 Erik Der Fliegende Holländer Wiesbaden 2013/14 Mime Siegfried Bucharest 2013 Mime Das Rheingold Bucharest 2013 Siegfried Götterdämmerung Friedrichshafen 2013 Erik Der Fliegende Holländer Birmingham 2013
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Arnold Bezuyen Tenor
Opera Repertoire
Beethoven Smetana Florestan ………….…….……...…. Fidelio Hans ….……...….…. Die verkaufte Braut
Berg R. Strauss Tambour Major, Hauptmann ……. Wozzeck Matteo …………………………... Arabella Bacchus …………….. Ariadne auf Naxos Berlioz Kaiser ………… Die Frau ohne Schatten Faust …..……... La Damnation de Faust Narraboth, Herodes ……….…… Salome
Britten Tchaikovsky Peter Grimes ……………… Peter Grimes Lensky ………………..… Eugene Onegin
Hindemith Wagner Tum-Tum ………..…. Das Nusch-Nuschi Arindal ………………………….. Die Feen
Janáček Erik ….….…....… Der fliegende Holländer Broucek ……. Die Ausflüge des Herrn Broucek Lohengrin ……….…..………... Lohengrin Laca, Steva ……………………..… Jenufa David ….... Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Boris …..……………….. Katia Kabanova Parsifal ……...…..……………..… Parsifal Loge …...……..…………... Das Rheingold Mozart Siegmund …..………..…...… Die Walküre Idomeneo ….………………….... Idomeneo Mime, Siegfried …………...... … Siegfried Tamino ..……….…….….. Die Zauberflöte Siegfried ……..…….... Götterdämmerung
Mussorgsky Weber Shujsky, Dmitri ….….…. Boris Godunov Max …..………..………..... Der Freischütz
Offenbach Weill Hoffmann ...... Les Contes d’Hoffmann Jim ……. Aufstieg und fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Concert Repertoire
Bach ………………. St. Matthew Passion Mahler ….…………… Symphony No. 8, Beethoven ……….….… Symphony No. 9 Lied von der Erde, klagendes Lied Dvorak ………… Requiem, Stabat Mater Verdi …………………………. Requiem
This list represents recommended roles in the artist's operatic repertoire. For a list of performed repertoire, please refer to the artist's resume and biography.!!
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Arnold Bezuyen Tenor
Reviews
“Und natürlich der fast bis zum Schluss tadellose, exzellent wortverständliche Gesang, mit dem Arnold Bezuyen seinen ersten Siegfried meistert!” Joachim Lange, MITTELDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, 2012
“Arnold Bezuyen hat diesen angenehm timbrierten schönstimmigen Siegfried-Tenor, dem er auch zu seinem martialischen Äußeren große Kraft beimischen kann.” Friedeon Rosén, DER NEUE MARKER, 2012
“Und mit dem Bayreutherprobten Arnold Bezuyen in seinem Siegfried-Debüt einen betörend lyrischen Siegfried auf die Szene bringt. Bezuyen spielt den Kraftprotz Siegfried nur optisch; stimmlich liebt er leise Zwischentöne und warme Farben.” Frank Piontek, DER OPERNFREUND, 2012
“The Dutch tenor Arnold Bezuyen, in his Met debut, brought a bright, agile voice and impish ways to the role of Loge [Das Rheingold], the demi-god of fire and trickery.” Anthony Tommasini, NEW YORK TIMES, 2011
“Eine sehr schöne Überraschung war der Bacchus von Arnold Bezuyen, der die Rolle aus dem Klischee des eitlen Tenors nahm und seinen Schlussauftritt in schicker Freizeit-Kluft blendend sang. Ein richtiger Strauss-Tenor, von Herodes bis Apollo - sind derer wenig dort zur Stell.” Wilhelm Guschlbauer, DER NEUE MARKER, 2011
“Bacchus: the brave Arnold... The Dutch tenor has resisted easily the terribly difficult, blaring overhead tessitura of Bacchus.” Philippe Venturini, LES ÉCHOS, 2011
“Much has been made of Freyer’s elaborate, alien-looking costumes, which include face-covering masks and headgear as well as expression-freezing make-up. The singers have had to find new ways of getting their characters across, of conveying their emotions, and this they did extremely well, through body language and voice inflection. As the crafty Loge [Das Rheingold], god of fire, Arnold Bezuyen drips with vocal cunning, sweetly lyrical and cajoling when he's duplicitous, cackling merrily when he's gotten his way.” Timothy Mangan, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 2010
“At a different point, he might have murmured, ‘Lady Gaga’. As Loge, the wonderfully emotive tenor Arnold Bezuyen wore that strange diva’s signature oversized shoulder pads. His hair and makeup, on the other hand, was reminiscent of Bono as MacPhisto: this devilish trickster could command an arena-rock crowd. And then there were his Converse sneakers, the uniform shoe of indie rock musicians like Kurt Cobain.” Ann Powers, LOS ANGELES TIMES, 2010
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