Bruce Ford

Bruce Ford is recognized as among the finest bel canto tenors of his generation and it is a luminary in the Rossini and Donizetti revival from the ’90s onward, aswell as with Mozart. He 1st examined voice at Western world State School in Canyon, TX, and afterwards at Texas Technology School. He was accepted towards the Houston Opera Studio room (working out company from the Houston Grand Opera), where he examined under Elena Nikolaidi and John Gillas. He produced his stage debut on the HGO as the abbot in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (a comprimario function), aswell as performing in the American premiere of Philip Cup’ The Madrigal Opera in 1981 as well as the globe premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s Willie Stark. He made an appearance in various little and medium-sized theaters in European countries and america through the early ’80s, like the Minnesota Opera where he sang Peccadillo in the globe premiere of P.D.Q. Bach’s (Peter Schickele) The Abduction of Figaro. He produced his Wexford debut in 1986 as Argirio in Rossini’s Tancredi, which brought him to wider interest in the bel canto field. He started his lengthy association using the Pesaro Celebration in 1990 and in 1991, he produced his Covent Backyard debut as Count number Almaviva in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. He sang Ernesto for his Chicago Lyric Opera debut in 1995. His Metropolitan Opera debut emerged in 1997 as Almaviva. He provides recorded widely, frequently in world-premiere recordings of ignored bel canto operas.