Nigel Rogers

Tenor Nigel Rogers has led an extremely colorful and varied music profession, primarily singing in concerts and recitals, portion as a teacher of music on the Royal University of Music, founding the choral ensemble Chiaroscuro and (being a late-comer) taking on conducting. Moreover, the first many years of his profession had been spent in Germany and his operatic debut emerged just in 1969. For everyone his multifaceted abilities, though, he continues to be above all an excellent singer. Yet, also his admirers will inform that while he possessed a nice-looking voice, it had been much less creamy or warm as much various other tenor voices; but Rogers wielded his device with all the current dramatic and specialized skills you can ever expect. Rogers was respectable in early music and Baroque repertory, with significant performances of functions by Machaut, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, J.S. Bach, Schütz, Dowland, Purcell, and many more. But his repertory expanded well beyond the Baroque period to take music by Schubert, Verdi, and Britten. Rogers produced about 70 recordings during his profession, spread over a variety of brands, including Chandos, Decca, DG, EMI, Lyrichord, Teldec, and Virgin Classics. Nigel Rogers was created in Wellington, Shropshire, Britain, on March 21, 1935. From 1953-1956 he examined music at Cambridge School (King’s University), learning to be a choral scholar. He previously further research privately at Rome and Milan, and from 1959-1961 he was enrolled on the Hochschule für Musik in Munich where his most significant instructor was Gerhard Hüsch. From 1960-1964, Rogers sang in the first music Munich-based vocal quartet Studio room der frühen Musik. Rogers came back to Britain in 1965 and four years afterwards produced his operatic debut in Amsterdam. He came back to Amsterdam on many subsequent events, including for his 1972 appearance as Poppea in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea, under Gustav Leonhardt. Rogers offered as teacher of tone of voice at London’s Royal University of Music, from 1978. The next 12 months he founded Chiaroscuro, a vocal ensemble specialized in early Italian music. At age group 50 (1985) Rogers produced his performing debut. He’d continue to immediate and perform in lots of choral works, such as for example Alessandro Scarlatti’s La gloria di primavera (1996). Rogers was still energetic in his seventies: at his 70th birthday concert in Wigmore Hall (Might 3, 2005), he performed a variety of solo functions by Carissimi, Frescobaldi, Kapsberger, Stradella, Froberger, as well as others, with Elizabeth Kenny on theorbo and Lina Zilinskyte on harpsichord.