Brett Polegato

One of today’s most sought-after lyric Marcello La bohème (Grange Park ) on the international stage, and Papageno Die Zauberflöte (Cincinnati Canadian-Italian Brett Polegato has earned Opera). the highest praise from audiences and critics for his artistic sensibility: "his is a Equally at ease on the concert platform, he serious and seductive voice" says the Globe has appeared with almost every major and Mail, while the New York Times has orchestra in the USA and Canada and praised him for his "burnished, well- several in Europe, performing repertoire focused voice", which he uses with including Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Symphonie "considerable intelligence and nuance". His (with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and his career has encompassed over fifty operatic Orchestre Métropolitain), Mahler’s Lieder roles at the world’s most prestigious eines fahrenden Gesellen (City of venues including La Scala, l’Opéra National Birmingham Symphony Orchestra), Ravel’s de Paris, the Glyndebourne Festival, the L’heure espagnole (BBC Proms), Vaughan Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Williams’s Five Mystical Songs and A Sea Opera, the Teatro Real, the Concertgebouw Symphony, Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, “...Brett Polegato’s Amsterdam and Carnegie Hall. Saariaho’s Cinq Reflets (US premiere), Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Onegin, ever-resonant in a In the 2020-21 season he sings Escamillo other orchestral lieder, and Brahms’s Ein world-wearing manner, Carmen for Opéra National de Bordeaux Deutsches Requiem. unfailingly musical in his and Fanuèl in Boito’s Nero for Bregenzer Festspiele. Recent highlights include his Polegato's discography shifts as seamlessly phrasing and breath debuts at the Metropolitan Opera (Brétigny through genres as his live appearances. His control, with excellent Manon) and Wexford Festival Opera (Dr recordings include Vaughan Williams’s A Talbot in the European premiere of William Sea Symphony (Grammy Award winner, diction, chilling Bolcom’s Dinner at Eight), his role debut as Best Classical Recording), his acclaimed solo insouciance in the Howie Albert Champion (Opera de disc To A Poet (CBC Records), an Analekta- rejection scene, thrilling Montreal), and Posa Don Carlo (Grange Fleur de Lys disc of Bach's popular Coffee Park Opera), as well as his recital debut at and Peasant Cantatas with the Tafelmusik high notes and a touch of London’s Wigmore Hall. Baroque Orchestra, a live period- genuine despair in the instrument performance of Handel’s Other operatic performances include Messiah under Andrew Parrott, Emmerich final moments.” Kurwenal Tristan und Isolde (Opera di Kálmán's Die Herzogin von Chicago with the

Opera Roma, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Decca), Opéra National de Bordeaux); his role and Gluck's with Les Musiciens du debut as Amfortas Parsifal at the Festival Louvre (Deutsche Grammophon Archiv de Lanaudière with Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Produktion). the world premiere of Jeffrey Ryan's Afghanistan: Requiem for a Generation with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra; Valid for use until 1 August 2021 Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro (Palm For updated versions please contact Beach Opera); Starbuck Moby Dick, [email protected] Lieutenant Audebert Silent Night and Frank and Fritz Die Tote Stadt (all Calgary Opera), Posa Don Carlos and title role Don Giovanni (Vancouver), title role in Berg’s Wozzeck (Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow), Zurga Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Dandini La Cenerentola and Sharpless Madama Butterfly (), title role Eugene Onegin and

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