| Robert Crowe |
| Male Soprano |
Adeste mortalis - Giacomo Carissimi
| |
|
Adeste mortalis - Giacomo Carissimi
|
|||
| Robert Crowe, described by
the New York Times as “a male soprano of staggering gifts“, is a member
of perhaps the world’s smallest vocal category. His education was
completed at the Manhattan School of Music, after receiving a master of
music from Boston University School for the Arts and a bachelor of
music, magna cum laude from Millsaps College. In 1995 he was only the
second countertenor(and first male soprano) to be a National Winner of
the Metropolitan Opera Competition—having his professional debut as
„Cherubino“ at the Des Moines Metro Opera in summer of that year. Mr. Crowe has sung on many opera stages in the US and in Europe: „Goffredo“ in Handel’s Rinaldo at the Bayerische Staatsoper, „Acomate“ in Hasse’s Solimano at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the title role in Scarlatti’s Massimo Puppieno with the Theatro Massimo in Palermo. He has also performed leading roles at the Handel Festival of Halle, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Handel Festival of Göttingen, Handel Festival of Karlsruhe, Early Music Festival of Utrecht, Mozart Festival of Warsaw, Early Music Festival of Connecticut, Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, Sans Souci Festival in Potsdam, Stadtstheater Basel, Landestheater Eisenach, Virginia Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Millenial Arts Productions in NYC, among others. He has worked with such conductors as René Jacobs, Ivor Bolton, Fabio Biondi, Andreas Spering, Michael Hoffsteter, Julius Rudel, Rheinhard Goebel, Marcus Creed, Lukas Meister, Ulrich Wagner and stage directors like Nicholas Broadhurst, David Alden, Eric Fraad, Peer Boysen, Phillip Kochheim, Sandra Leupold, Lillian Garrett-Groag, and Axel Köhler. Robert performed in the 250th anniversary production of G.B. Ferrandini’s Catone in Utica as Giulio Cesare in the Cuvillies Theater in Munich with Christoph Hammer, a critically acclaimed recording of which was released by Oehms Classics. He can also be heard as Sesto in Handel’s Giulio Cesare on Koch International Classics, as well as La Victoire in an ORF recording of Pietro Torri’s La Triumph de la Paix. In March 2006 he sang the title role in the world premiere fully-staged production of Nikolaus Schapfl’s Der Kleine Prinz, based upon Antione de Saint-Exupery’s beloved tale Le Petit Prince at the Badische Staatstheater in Karlsruhe. In 2007 he entered for the first time the world of romantic Grand Opera in as the young Sièbel in the Staatstheater Darmstadt’s production of Gounod’s Faust, garnering critical and popular acclaim for his singing as well as his acting. 03/12/08 |