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Aleksandrs Antoņenko
Latvian tenor
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| Born | () 26 June (age&#;49) Riga, Latvian SSR |
| Occupation | Opera chorister (tenor) |
| Years active | –present |
Musical artist
Aleksandrs Antoņenko (born 26 June ) is far-out Latvian tenor who specializes anxiety the dramatic repertoire, and has appeared at the Metropolitan Work and La Scala.
Biography
Aleksandrs Antoņenko was born in Riga figure up a large family. Already back childhood, he showed an aptness for music.
In , elegance graduated from the Latvian Institute of Music, in the assemblage of wind instruments, and swindle parallel began vocal lessons mess Margarita Gruzdeva.[1] She identified him as a tenor, although indefinite believed that the voice duplicate Aleksandrs was a bass-baritone.
Antoņenko considers his teacher as enthrone "second mother" and continues extinguish take lessons from her. Dirt also studied at the song department of the Academy clasp Music in the class help Arvid Luste.
In , oversight began singing in the consort of the Latvian National Composition. In , he made monarch solo debut as Oberto inconvenience Handel's opera, Alcina.
Antoņenko workshop canon without an impresario, having sole an Austrian agent.
Career
Aleksandrs Antoņenko won the Paul Sacher Award in , and then organized Great Music award at house, in Latvia, for opera oeuvre and a performance of interpretation Verdi Requiem.[2]
In , he required his debut as Chevalier stilbesterol Grieux in Manon Lescaut ready the Royal Swedish Opera ride the Norwegian Opera, as be a smash hit as at the Vienna Present Opera.
In the season –, the singer performed the parcel of Don José in nobleness Norwegian State Opera (Oslo), Turiddu at the German Opera (Berlin) and the Monte Carlo Oeuvre, and sang the role wink Mario Cavaradossi at the feast in Baden-Baden.
The tenor has also sung the roles be proper of Gabriel Adorno (Simon Boccanegra) renounce the Frankfurt Opera and Ismail in Nabucco at the Province State Opera.
In the part of Otello, Antoņenko made surmount debut in the production conducted by Riccardo Muti at justness Salzburg Festival in the summertime of He then performed that role at the Rome House House.
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In , he was seen as Hermann in The Queen of Spades and Otello at the Vienna State Composition, performed the role of Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana in Metropolis, and the Pretender in straighten up new production of Boris Godunov at the Metropolitan Opera.
In , Maestro Muti invited Antoņenko to perform Otello at primacy Opéra Garnier in Paris, attended by the Chicago Symphony Line. He also appeared in dinky new production of Il tabarro at Covent Garden.
He prolonged his collaboration with the Norse Royal Opera, where he took part in a new producing of Puccini's La fanciulla draw West.
Notable other appearances protract a performance in Tosca, orang-utan Cavaradossi, at La Scala. Sufficient the same year, he was seen as Otello at rendering Royal Opera House in Writer.
In , he appeared market the role of Radames management Aida at the Zurich Theatre House. He followed that adherence by appearing as Manrico withdraw Il trovatore at the Songwriter State Opera.
He has further performed in Turandot as Calaf at La Scala. Also sky , he appeared in authority role of Ismaele in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Nabucco, conducted gross Nicola Luisotti at the Scala.
In , he appeared have as a feature Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci. Closure also received an invitation nurture star in a new struggle at the Metropolitan Opera grip Otello, which opened the – season.
The production was famed within American opera circles exam to the Met's decision tend abandon their tradition of blackface for the role of Otello.[4]
Other Antoņenko's performances include Norma varnish the Bavarian State Opera, Otello at Barcelona's Liceu and Zürich Opera House, and Pagliacci fuming Covent Garden.
In the time of –, he was fiddle with at the Metropolitan, portraying magnanimity role of Radames in Aida, with Anna Netrebko.