Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen’s Double Win
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen has been recognized by the audiences of the Bay Area as Best Opera Singer and Best Recital Artist in the 2018-19 San Francisco Classical Voice’s Best of the Bay. Now in its fifth year, SFCV’s annual reader poll continues to delight with the sheer breadth and variety of the nominations and what it says about the Bay Area’s robust music scene.
Étude Arts is proud to represent tenor Simon Bode in The Americas. The native of Hamburg, Germany has been a member of the ensembles of Oper Frankfurt and the Staatsoper Hannover and has received several nominations for ‘Young Singer of the Year’ from Opernwelt. Recent engagements include performances at Norwegian National Opera, Opéra national de Bordeaux, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Göttingen International Handel Festival, Staatsoper Hannover, Theater Basel, and Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. A consummate recitalist, Simon Bode has given highly praised debuts at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin and the Rheingau Musik Festival and has returned on numerous occasions to The Wigmore Hall. His frequent collaborators include pianists Igor Levit and Graham Johnson.
ABC Classics releases Tristan und Isolde with Stuart Skelton singing the title role. Acclaimed by Limelight magazine as “an astonishing gift to audiences and a triumph of music making…” the project is led by Asher Fisch on the podium with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
The August 2019 edition of Opera News features a full profile on soprano Lauren Snouffer and describes the Texas native as “one of the most adventurous singers on the international scene.”
At the 2019 Operalia competition in Prague, soprano Felicia Moore and countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen were recognized with awards for high achievement as two of today’s most promising opera stars.
It is with great excitement that Étude Arts welcomes Clay Hilley to the roster for general management. Poised to become one of the most sought-after tenors on international stages, Clay Hilley’s repertoire spans from Beethoven and Britten to Wagner and Weber and collaborations have brought him together with many of the most prestigious conductors including Johannes Debus, John DeMain, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Nicola Luisotti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Donald Runnicles, and Emmanuel Villaume.
Stuart Skelton is acclaimed as one of the greatest heldentenors of his generation, receiving extraordinary reviews for his performances in some of opera’s most demanding roles. His incredible voice and outstanding musicianship have seen him perform all over the world, from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden to the Metropolitan Opera, and from the Bayerische Staatsoper to Teatro alla Scala.
Shining Knight features arias from many of the roles that have become synonymous with Stuart Skelton – Parsifal, Lohengrin, Siegmund – as well as Lieder and songs from outside the operatic repertoire.
The disc begins with one of Wagner’s earliest works, Rienzi, and traces the composer’s development as he invents a new musical language in his Ring cycle, his great operas Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde, and then to the Wesendonck Lieder that foreshadows so much of his later work. Skelton then turns to America, and two composers from the generation inspired by Wagner: Charles Griffes and Samuel Barber.
Accompanied by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by his friend and frequent collaborator Asher Fisch, Shining Knight showcases one of the world’s greatest voices at the very peak its powers.
Étude Arts celebrates Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen’s wins of the 2018 Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition. His performance in the competition garnered both First Prize Winner and “People’s Choice Award.” During the evening’s Finals Round, Mr. Nussbaum Cohen performed “Inumano fratel…Stille amare” from Handel’s Tolomeo and “Dawn, still darkness” (Refugee’s Aria) from Jonathan Dove’s Flight with Dallas Opera Music Director, Emmanuel Villaume, leading the Dallas Opera Orchestra.
Judges for the 2018 Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition:
Brian Zeger, Chair
Artistic Director of the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts
The Juilliard School
Emmanuel Villaume
The Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director, The Dallas Opera
Peter Czornyj
Vice President of Artistic Operations, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Kathleen Kelly
Associate Professor of Music, University of Michigan
Former Director of Music Studies, Vienna State Opera
Alain Lanceron
President of Warner Classics
Andreas Melinat
Vice President Artistic Planning, Lyric Opera of Chicago
Pål Moe
Casting Director, Bavarian State Opera;
Casting Consultant, Glyndebourne Festival and Opéra de Lille
It is with great excitement that Étude Arts welcomes the distinguished, Hungarian bass-baritone, Peter Kálmán, to the roster for general management. Highly regarded for his engaging character portrayals in the Italian “Buffo” tradition, he is no less accomplished in the dramatic roles of Bartók, Strauss, and Wagner. Collaborations have yielded performances with many of the world’s most prestigious conductors including Christoph von Dohnányi, Ádám Fischer, Valery Gergiev, Nello Santi, Stefan Soltész, Franz Welser-Möst, and Jaap van Zweden.
“We want to redefine opera company,” says co-artistic director Matthew Aucoin. “We’re a company — in the sense of having company over for dinner. We make opera, but we want to pay attention to all the senses. When a piece involves dancers, singers and instrumentalists, they all have an impact on each other.”
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