Richard Stilwell

Richard Stilwell is definitely a respected American operatic baritone. He’s known for a light, versatile voice with actually tone creation and a dramatic and extreme stage existence. His primary educators had been Frank St. Leger and Daniel Ferro. During his amount of armed service services he was an associate of america Military Chorus. His operatic debut, in Apr 1970 at the brand new York Town Opera, is at a job with which he became carefully determined: that of Pelléas in Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande. He continued to record the part in a traditional EMI documenting with Herbert von Karajan opposite his fellow American Frederica von Stade. His repertory is likely from the heavier Germanic parts. His tasks are the Marquis de la Push in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites, both Mr. Redburn as well as the name part in Britten’s Billy Budd, Captain Balstrode in the same composer’s Peter Grimes, De Siriex in Mascagni’s Fedora, Dandini in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Otho in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Olivier in Strauss’ Capriccio, Count number Almaviva in The Relationship of Figaro, Papageno in The Magic Flute, the Music Expert in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, as well as the name tasks in Tchaikovsky’s Yevgeny Onegin, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. He sang in the first American stage creation of Il ritorno in January 1974 in the Kennedy Middle in Washington D.C., a component he previously sung the prior summer in the Glyndebourne Opera Event in Britain. He premiered the elements of Konstantin in Pasatieri’s The Seagull in 1974 in the Houston Opera, the primary male function in Pasatieri’s Inez de Castro in Baltimore in 1976, and in addition sang in the globe premieres of Ingvar Lidholm’s A Wish Play with the Santa Fe Opera and Dominick Argento’s The Aspern Documents using the Dallas Opera. Furthermore to theaters mentioned previously, he has made an appearance using the Metropolitan Opera (where his debut was as Guglielmo in Così enthusiast tutte in 1975), the Seattle Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the LA Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera Home (Covent Backyard) in London, the Opéra Country wide de Paris, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Opera. Aside from the acclaimed Pelléas documenting, his disk credits consist of Le nozze di Figaro, Il ritorno d’Ulisse, Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’ Requiem, and Götz Friedrich’s video creation of Falstaff with Sir Georg Solti performing.