Stephen Powell, baritone

Raves: “the big news was Stephen Powell’s gorgeously-sung Onegin: rock solid, with creamy legato from top to bottom and dynamics smoothly tapered but never exaggerated” — Opera magazine. “rich, lyric baritone, commanding presence, and thoughtful musicianship” — The Wall Street Journal

Recent performances: Carmina Burana with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and at the Aspen Music Festival; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Philadelphia Orchestra; Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, also at Aspen

Upcoming: Washington Concert Opera as Riccardo in I puritani; North Carolina Symphony as Count in Le nozze di Figaro; Arizona Opera as Germont in La traviata; Hawaii Opera Theatre as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia; Austin Lyric Opera in a gala concert; a return to the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in Messiah; Carmina Burana with Oregon Symphony; Singing City Choir (Philadelphia) in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis

Career starter: on opening night of New York City Opera’s 1995-96 season, Powell created a sensation, substituting on short notice to sing the title role in Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler. Subsequent roles with City Opera: Ford in Falstaff, the title role in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Enrico in a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor, and Zurga in a new production of Les pécheurs de perles

At the Met: Ping in Turandot and Schelkalov in Boris Godunov

Alumnus: Lyric Opera of Chicago Center for American Artists

Web site: http://www.stephenpowell.us

Master Chorale concerts

Beethoven & Brahms
Sunday, October 14, 2007