Master Class with
alan held bass-baritone
yale opera Doris Yarick Cross, Artistic Director December 14, 2015 • Morse Recital Hall Douglas Dickson and Timothy Shaindlin, piano
Robert Blocker, Dean
Master Class
alan held · bass-baritone Wednesday, December 14, 2015 • 7 pm Doris Yarick Cross, Artistic Director Paweł Konik bass-baritone
Hai gia vinta la causa from Le Nozze di Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) O du, mein holder Abenstern from Tannhäuser Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
Dean Murphy baritone
Ah! per sempre from I Puritani Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835) Papageno’s suicide from Die Zauberflöte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Anne Maguire mezzo-soprano
O mio Fernando from La Favorite Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) Gertrude’s aria from Hamlet Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896)
Zachary Johnson baritone
Lieben, Hassen from Ariadne auf Naxos Richard Strauss (1864–1949) Donne mie la fate a tanti from Così fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Andrés Moreno tenor
Che gelida manina from La Bohème Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) Dies Bildis from Die Zauberflöte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Alternate: Natalia Rubis soprano
Ach, ich fühls from Die Zauberflöte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Adieu, notre petite table from Manon Jules Massenet (1842–1912)
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 began with Mr. Held performing with the San Antonio Symphony as the narrator in Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw. He will appear as Orest in Elektra in Montreal, and as Wotan/ Wanderin Siegfried with the Canadian Opera Comany and in the complete Der Ring des Nibelungen with the Washington National Opera. 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 will serve as the Artist in Residence for the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera during the 2015–2016 seaon. Mr. Held has visited Yale University since 2002 to coach the singers of Yale Opera.
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