Last weekend I sang at the Karlsruhe Opernball…. with the bel-canto star Edita Gruberova! Such a wonderful artist. Anyhow, here’s a video from Baden TV which features a snippet from the fly duet, which I sang with Ina Schligensiepen, and … Continue reading
I’m making my role debut as Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni this evening. The production is a Wiederaufnahme (revival) which means the production has been done here before. It is not new for several of the cast, and as such, … Continue reading
The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (where I’m ‘fest’) announced their 2012/13 season this week. It’s a very exciting season, with the theme of Von Prüfungen (Tests): The new productions are: TANNHÄUSER, Richard Wagner (director Aaron Stiehl) THE THREE MUSKATEERS, Ralph Benatzky (director Bernd Mottl) LA … Continue reading
I’m a few days behind posting this… check out an interview I did with Operatoonity:
We got some good ones! Excuse my poor translating: “Clito (Andrew Finden) und Leonato (Sebastian Kohlhepp) zeigen hohe stimmliche Kompetenz und theateralisches Talent, das der Regisseur (der in Heidelberg “Otello” inszeniert) gehörig aus ihnen Herauskitzelt.“Clito (Andrew Finden) and Leonato (Sebastian Kohlhepp) show high vocal skills and theatrical talent which the director (in Heidelberg “Othello” directed) duly teased … Continue reading
Here’s the trailer for our production of Ritter Blaubart: I’m not in the video, but also play the role of Graf Oskar, who’s the grey suited guy who sings & wiggles his derriere at the very end.
Handel’s rarity Alessandro kicks off tonight as part of this year’s Handel Festival at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. I’m playing the role of Clito, a Macedonian general who stands up to Alexander the Great (sung by the very accomplished … Continue reading
Our production of Romeo & Julia got a reall good write-up in the New York Times yesterday: Happily, the conductor Johannes Willig and the theater’s orchestra rose handsomely to the challenge of realizing Delius’s rich orchestral textures. The singing too … Continue reading
Tonight is the premiere of Delius’ rarity Romeo und Julie auf dem Dorfe (A villiage Rome and Juliet). The piece was written in both German and English versions, and had it’s world premiere in Berlin in 1907. It is based … Continue reading
Last week I made my role debut as Graf Oscar in our new production of Offenbach’s operette Ritter Blaubart, a considerably more frivolous version of the wife-murdering Duke Bluebeard. Andrew Finden gibt seinem Gesang als Graf Oscar bei aller Kraft … Continue reading
