G REER G R I M S L E Y – Bass-baritone The American bass-baritone Greer Grimsley is recognized internationally as an outstanding dramatic artist. He has established a remarkable international career, performing regularly on the world’s most prestigious concert stages and opera houses, including Metropolitan Opera House New York, San Diego Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Baltimore Opera, Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Opéra de Nancy, Grand Theatre de Genève, Opéra de Montréal, Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, Scottish Opera Glasgow, Teatro Real in Madrid, Bregenz Festival, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia and Teatro Comunale di Bologna. As a Wagner specialist, he is an acclaimed performer of such titles as Der fliegende Holländer (Holländer), Lohengrin (Telramund), Der Ring des Nibelungen (Wotan), Tristan und Isolde (Kurwenal), Parsifal (Amfortas). His repertory also includes Elektra (Orest), Salome (Jochanaan), Arabella (Mandryka), Peter Grimes (Balstrode), Samson et Dalila (Grand Prêtre), Fidelio (Don Pizarro), Carmen (Escamillo), Faust (Méphistophélès), Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Villains), Don Giovanni (title role), Macbeth (title role), Aida (Amonasro), Tosca (Scarpia), La fanciulla del West (Jack Rance), and Bluebeard’s Castle (Bluebeard). He worked with such conductors as Andreas Delfs, Daniele Gatti, James Levine, Kurt Mazur, Zubin Mehta, etc. Career highlights of Greer Grimsley include Der fliegende Holländer at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra de Nancy, Minnesota Opera and Teatro Comunale di Bologna under Daniele Gatti’s baton, Lohengrin at San Diego Opera, Royal Danish Opera and Seattle Opera, Das Rheingold at Opera de Montréal and at the Fenice di Venezia, Tosca at San Francisco Opera and at Houston Grand Opera , Salome with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta and at Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Samson et Dalila at Houston Grand Opera, Fidelio at San Diego Opera, Faust at Seattle Opera, Don Giovanni at Opera Carolina and at Baltimore Opera, Tristan und Isolde at Royal Danish Opera, Les contes d’Hoffmann at New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, La fanciulla del West at Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, Bluebeard’s Castle at Opéra de Montreal, Der Ring des Nibelungen at Seattle Opera. Recently he performed Samson et Dalila and Tosca at San Diego Opera, Billy Budd at Pittsburgh Lyric Opera, Siegfried at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia and Liceu de Barcelona and Der fliegende Holländer at Seattle Opera. At the Metropolitan he performed in many productions, including Tristan und Isolde , Carmen, Der Ring des Nibelungen and Peter Grimes . He sang several times the role of Escamillo in Carmen in such venues as Baltimore Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Opera Company in Philadelphia, Scottish Opera, Vancouver Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève and Bregenz Festival. LATEST PERFORMANCES : Die Walküre , Siegfried (Wotan) at New National Theatre di Tokyo; Tosca (Scarpia) at Los Angeles Opera and San Diego Opera; Fidelio (Don Pizzarro), Salome (Jochanaan) at Metropolitan New York; Sweeney Todd (title role) at New Orleans Opera; Die Walküre at Opera Australia Melbourne; Das Rheingold (Wotan) at Minnesota Opera; Der Fliegende Holländer (Holländer) at Seattle Opera and Opera de A Coruña. FORTHCOMING PROJECTS : Macbeth (title role) at San Antonio Opera; The Pirates of Penzance (The Pirate King) at San Diego Opera; Tristan und Isolde (Kurwenal) at Liceu de Barcelona; Elektra (Orest) at Houston Grand Opera; Das Rheingold, Die Walkure , Siegfried (Wotan) at San Francisco Opera; Der fliegende Holländer (Holländer) at Dallas Opera and das Rheingold in Madrid. Last update: September 2017, please do not use any previous version. Melos Opera S.r.l. – Via J. F. Kennedy, 83 – 40068 San Lazzaro di Savena (Bo) – Italia [email protected] – www.melosopera.com – tel. +39 051 455 395 Cap. Soc. € 10.000 i.v. – Cod. Fisc. e P.Iva: 03640741207 – REA BO-535118 .