James Maddalena

American baritone Adam Maddalena commands a big and different repertoire of jobs, from Monteverdi to modern opera. His efficiency from the function of Richard Nixon in the globe premiere of John Adams’ Nixon in China on the Houston Grand Opera earned him a global audience. The overall performance broadcast nationally around the PBS Great Shows series received an Emmy Award as well as the recording from the opera for non-esuch received a Grammy Award. Maddalena is usually a regular collaborator with movie director Peter Sellars and sang main functions in Sellars’ questionable stagings from the Mozart/Da Ponte operas (the Count number in Le nozze di Figaro and Guglielmo in Così lover tutte). He also made an appearance in the Sellars creation of Nixon in China at holland Opera, the Edinburgh Event, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Washington Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, at Australia’s Adelaide Event, and in Paris. In 1991, Maddalena produced the part from the Captain in John Adams’ The Loss of life of Klinghoffer in the globe premiere in the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. Klinghoffer was after that produced in the Opera de Lyon, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Opera, with the Vienna Event prior to becoming documented by non-esuch (with Kent Nagano performing). Maddalena also sang in the globe premiere of Harvey Dairy using the Houston Grand Opera, aswell as the next production with SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Opera (documented by Teldec with Donald Runnicles performing). In 2001, he performed the part of Gideon March in Adamo’s Small Women in the Houston Grand Opera. Around the concert stage, Maddalena offers performed with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Culture, the Orchestra from the Accademia di Santi Cecilia in Rome, as well as the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Symphony. He sang in the premiere of Elliot Goldenthal’s oratorio Open fire, Water, Paper using the Pacific Symphony (documented by Sony Classical) and in the globe premiere of John Harbison’s Four Psalms using the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.