Alan Held Master Class, Dec 17

Master Class with

alan held bass-baritone

yale opera Doris Yarick Cross, Artistic Director December 17, 2014 • Morse Recital Hall Douglas Dickson and Timothy Shaindlin, piano

Robert Blocker, Dean

Master Class

alan held · bass-baritone Wednesday, December 17, 2014 • 7:00 pm Doris Yarick Cross, Artistic Director

Brad Walker bass-baritone

Aprite un po’ quegli occhi from Le Nozze di Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Vi ravviso from La Sonnambula Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835)

Katherine Reveille mezzo-soprano

Weiche, Wotan, weiche! from Das Rheingold Richard Wagner (1813–1883) Amour! Viens aider from Samson et Delilah Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)

Andy Berry bass

Song of the Viking Guest from Sadko Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) La Vendetta from Le Nozze di Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Emily Workman soprano

Czardas from Die Fledermaus Johann Strauss (1825–1899) Porgi, amor from Le Nozze di Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Zhiguang Hong bass-baritone

Aleko’s cavatina from Aleko Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Ah! per sempre from I Puritani Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835)

As a courtesy to the performers and audience, silence all electronic devices. Please do not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.

Yale Opera

Alan Held Recognized internationally as one of the leading singing actors today, American bassbaritone Alan Held has appeared in major roles in the world’s finest opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, Bayerische Staastoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, De Nederlandse Opera, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, and Tokyo Opera Nomori. His many roles include Wotan in the Ring cycle, the title roles in Wozzeck and Der fliegende Holländer, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg, Scarpia in Tosca, Leporello in Don Giovanni, the Four Villains in Les Contes d’Hoffman, Jochanaan in Salome, Don Pizzaro in Fidelio, Orestes in Elektra, and Balstrode in Peter Grimes.

Equally at home on the concert stage, Mr. Held has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Kirov Opera Orchestra, and Montreal Symphony. He has also appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg, Tanglewood, Cincinnati May, and Saito Kinen festivals, and at the BBC Proms. He has worked with many distinguished conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Colin Davis, Charles

Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Franz Welser-Möst, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Simon Rattle, David Robertson, Donald Runnicles, EsaPekka Salonen, and Jeffrey Tate.

Mr. Held appears as the title role in Cardillac in the DVD of the Paris Opera production, and recorded the role of Don Pizzaro in Fidelio with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic for EMI Classics. He also appeared as the Four Villains in the Met’s HD broadcast and DVD of the Les Contes d’Hoffman and as Peter in the broadcast of Hansel und Gretel. This season, Mr. Held returns to the Wiener Staatsoper and the San Antonio Opera as Jochanaan, the Teatro Real and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra as Don Pizzaro, and the Washington National Opera in Der fliegende Holländer and Dialogues des Carmelites.

A native of Washburn, Illinois, Mr. Held received vocal training at Millikin University and at Wichita State University where he was most recently named Associate Professor, The Ann and Dennis Ross Faculty of Distinction.

He is a recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Birgit Nilsson Prize and the 2014 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Male Performance in an Opera.

Mr. Held has visited Yale University since 2002 to coach the singers of Yale Opera.

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Gianni Schicchi, Riders to the Sea, and Bon Appetit! may 2 & 3 Morse Recital Hall | Sat, 8 pm | Sun, 2 pm Yale Opera presents a triple bill of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Vaughan William’s Riders to the Sea, and Hoiby’s Bon Appetit!

Stage direction by Louisa Proske; musical direction by Douglas Dickson and Timothy Shaindlin Tickets start at $10 • Students $5

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