Thomas Allen |

Thomas Allen

Sir Thomas Allen yana daya daga cikin shahararrun baritones a duniya. Muryarsa tana sauti a cikin shahararrun gidajen opera: Lambun Covent na London da New York Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala, Operas Bavarian da Scotland, gidajen wasan kwaikwayo a Los Angeles, Chicago da Dallas, da kuma a shahararrun bukukuwa a Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Spoleto. .

A cikin 2006, mawaƙin ya yi bikin cika shekaru 35 a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Covent Garden, inda ya yi ayyukan wasan kwaikwayo sama da 50.

An haifi Thomas Allen a shekara ta 1944. Ya sauke karatu daga Royal College of Music. Ya fara halarta a karon a 1969 a matsayin Figaro (Rossini's The Barber of Seville) a Welsh National Opera. Bayan shekaru uku, ya fara yi a Covent Garden a cikin opera Billy Budd na B. Britten.

Thomas Allen ya zama sananne musamman ga siffar Mozart ta haruffa a kan mataki: Count Almaviva, Don Alfonso, Papageno, Guglielmo da kuma, ba shakka, Don Juan. Daga cikin sauran ayyukansa na "kambi" akwai Billy Budd (a cikin wasan opera na Birtaniyya mai suna guda ɗaya), Pelleas ("Pelléas et Mélisande" na Debussy), Eugene Onegin (a cikin opera na Tchaikovsky na wannan suna), Ulysses (a cikin opera na L. Dallapikkola). na wannan sunan), Beckmesser ("Nürnberg Meistersingers" na Wagner).

Ayyukan mawaƙa na kwanan nan sun haɗa da yin rawar rawa a cikin Gianni Schicchi na Puccini a Spoleto Festival da kuma Los Angeles Opera; Babban rawa a cikin kiɗan "Sweeney Todd" na S. Sondheim, Beckmesser ("The Meistersingers of Nuremberg" na Wagner), Faninal ("The Rosenkavalier" na R. Strauss), Prosdochimo ("Turk a Italiya" na Rossini) , Mawaƙi ("Ariadne auf Naxos" R . Strauss), Peter (Humperdinck's Hansel da Gretel) da Don Alfonso (Mozart's So Do kowa) a Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus na I. Strauss) a bikin Glyndeburn da kuma Opera na Jihar Bavaria; Don Alfonso, Ulysses da Don Giovanni a Opera na Jihar Bavaria; Don Alfonso a Dallas Opera, da Lyric Opera na Chicago, Salzburg Easter da kuma bukukuwan bazara; The Forester (The Adventures of the Cunning Fox by Janáček) a San Francisco Opera, Beckmesser, Don Alfonso da Musician (Ariadne auf Naxos na R. Strauss) a New York Metropolitan Opera.

Ba a ƙara yin suna ba ga mawakin da wasannin kide-kide da ya yi. Yana ba da kide-kide a Burtaniya, Turai, Ostiraliya, Amurka, yana aiki tare da manyan makada da fitattun masu gudanarwa. Yawancin rubutunsa an rubuta su tare da ƙwararrun masu gudanar da fasaha kamar G. Solti, J. Levine, N. Marriner, B. Haitink, S. Rattle, V. Zavallish da R. Muti. Rikodin opera na Mozart Le nozze di Figaro tare da mawaƙa a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Georg Solti sun sami lambar yabo ta Grammy a 1983.

A cikin sabon kakar, an shirya wasan kwaikwayon mai zane a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Opera na Scotland, gidajen wasan kwaikwayo a Los Angeles da Chicago, da kuma halarta na farko a gidan wasan kwaikwayon Bolshoi na Rasha.

Mawaƙin ya sami lakabi da kyaututtuka da yawa: Kammersänger na Bavarian Opera, Memba na girmamawa na Royal Academy of Music, Farfesa na Prince Consort na Royal College of Music, Farfesa mai ziyara na Opera Studio na Jami'ar Oxford, Royal College of Music. , Jami'ar Sunderland, Doctor of Music of Durham da Birmingham Jami'o'in. A cikin 1989, Thomas Allen ya sami lambar yabo ta Daular Burtaniya, kuma a cikin 1999, a cikin bikin ranar haihuwar Sarauniya, ya sami taken Knight Bachelor (Knight Bachelor).

Thomas Allen ya rubuta littattafai (a cikin 1993 littafinsa na farko, Sassan Kasashen Waje - An buga Jarida ta Singer), wanda aka buga a cikin Documentaries ("Mrs. Henderson Presents" da "The Real Don Juan").

Source: Gidan yanar gizon Philharmonic na Moscow