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Internationally
acclaimed tenor Kevin Anderson quickly established himself as
one of the most exciting singing-actors today. He came to
world-wide attention with the San Francisco Opera's historic
production and telecast of L'Africaine with
Placido Domingo and Shirley Verrett. His career highlights
include Lyric Opera of Chicago where he sang Janek in a new
production of vec
Makropulos with Catherine Malfitano (broadcast over
National Public Radio) and Hugo Weissgall's Six
Characters in Search of an Author , opening the 1995
season of Santa Fe Opera as Tasillo in their highly successful
production of Kalman's Countess Maritza, the
Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao as Fenton in Falstaff, Vlaamse
Opera (Antwerp) as Fenton, the Steersman in Fliegende Hollander,
La Rondine and
Paris in the controversial production of King Priam and
as Sam Kaplan in Kurt
Weill's Street Scene which he has sung for the New York
City Opera, the English National Opera for two seasons in the
David Poutney production (telecast for the BBC) and at Theater
des Westens in the production by Francesca Zambello. With
Opera Theater of St. Louis he created the title role of Candide in the world
premiere staging of the composer's revised opera house
version.
Elsewhere he has
sung: Rodolfo in La Boheme and Rinuccio in Gianni
Schicchi with Cleveland Opera; Tonio in La Fille du
Regiment with Michigan Opera Theater; Pacific Opera
Victoria in the title role in Romeo et Juliette and
Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore; Capetown Opera and Utah
Opera as Paris in La Belle Helene ; New York City Opera
as the poet in L'Heure Espagnole, Sam Kaplan in
Street Scene and Henrik in A Little Night Music;
Compañia Nacional de Opera in Costa Rica and Taipei
Symphony as Alfredo in La Traviata ; Edmonton
Opera as Nanki-Poo in Mikado; Scottish Opera as
Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte; New Orleans Opera as Fenton
in Falstaff .For the 1996-97 season Mr. Anderson
toured with Oscar winning actress Faye Dunaway in Terrence
McNally's Master Class and returned to the Naples
Philharmonic for a New Year's Eve Gala and concerts with
Cincinnati Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra and Indianapolis
Orchestra.
Recent engagements
included Lyric Opera of Chicago for their production of Marvin
David Levy's revised Mourning Becomes Electra, Canadian
Opera Company in the world premiere of The Golden Ass
and Santa Fe Opera for Countess Maritza as well as
concerts in Europe and with the Naples Philharmonic and
Cincinnati Symphony and at the Ravinia Festival with the
Chicago Symphony . Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with
Toledo Opera and Ralph in HMS Pinafore with Cleveland
Opera as well as debuting with Chautauqua Opera in Street
Scene as well as a concert with Baltimore Symphony. Next
season he returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago for Jenufa
, sings Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor for both
Gold Coast Opera and the opening of the Antigua Festival inGuatemala
and H.M.S. Pinafore with Knoxville
Opera
A popular concert
artist, Mr. Anderson's symphony engagements have
included the Colorado Springs Symphony in the title role
in La Damnation de Faust, Orchestra of St. Luke's in
performances of La Pomme d'Api and with the San
Francisco Symphony in the Mozart C minor Mass and the
Bach B minor Mass, Orquesta Nacional de Costa Rica in
the Verdi Requiem and Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de
Mexico for the Beethoven Ninth Symphony . Mr.
Anderson has sung with Cincinnati Symphony, Indianapolis
Symphony, Naples Philharmonic and most recently with Chicago
Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival. He was featured
soloist in a Bernstein concert with Leonard Slatkin and
the Cleveland Orchestra, toured the Far East singing
concerts in Taipei, Hong Kong,
Singapore,
Bangkok and Djakarta and sang Gaylord
Ravenal in concert performances of Showboat at the
Edinburgh Festival under John McGlinn.
Mr. Anderson
has enjoyed a long and fruitful association with Maestro Erich
Kunzel in concerts of Opera, Operetta and Broadway with
Cincinnati Symphony and POPs, Naples Philharmonic,and the
symphonies of
Indianapolis
,
Toronto
,
Baltimore
,
Detroit
,
Taipei
and Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival.
He begins work in February on a CD of Walz music with Kunzel
and the Cincinnati POPs along with his wife, soprano Jami
Rogers
Mr. Anderson's
television appearances, recordings and videos include:
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Mo. Enrique Batiz and
the Orquesta Sinfonica de el Estado de Mexico for
EMI/Mexico; Hugo Weisgall's Six Characters in Search
of an Opera with Elizabeth Futral and the Lyric Opera of
Chicago on Nonesuch Records; Alvar in
L'Africaine with Placido Domingo on video and laser
disc from Pioneer; I'm a stranger here myself: Kurt
Weill in America a Barrie Gavin film for BBC/Hessischer
Rundfunk; the ENO production of Street Scene on the
BBC ; A Little Night Music on PBS/Great
Performances; Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
available on compact disc as well as video and laser from
BMG . Newly released is Leonard Bernstein Mass at
Vatican City (2000) on DVD and
CD.
Born in Moline, Illinois,
Kevin first became interested in singing as a member of the
Moline Boys Choir. Moving to Denver
in High School, he continued his vocal studies and made his
professional debut at 19 with Central City Opera. He is a
graduate of the University of
Wyoming
and was a Santa Fe Opera apprentice and a member of the San
Francisco Opera Merola and Adler Fellow programs, a
Metropolitan Opera Competition finalist and a grantee
of the Sullivan Foundation. He makes his homes in
Knoxville
Tennessee
with his wife, soprano Jami Rogers, their son Beckett along
with 2 dogs and 2 cats. |
