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b. 1965 Welsh baritone Terfel studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and in 1989 won the Lieder prize in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition. He made his debut in 1990 as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) for Welsh National Opera. He has performed Figaro worldwide. He sang Verdi’s Falstaff at the reopening of Covent Garden ...

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b. 1965, Welsh One of the most exciting bass-baritones currently performing, Terfel became a sensation after winning the Cardiff Singer of the World Lieder prize in 1989. In 1990 he made his operatic debut as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at Welsh National Opera, before bursting onto the London scene as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with ...

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and the Marschallin (Rosenkavalier). She recorded the Four Last Songs with Solti, a conductor with whom she had a close association. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Bryn Terfel | Contemporary | Classical ...

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instruments, was used by Delta Airlines from 1994 and later released on the bestselling album Songs of Sanctuary (1995). Jenkins has worked with many leading singers, including Bryn Terfel, Kiri Te Kanawa and Rolando Villazón. The Armed Man: a Mass for Peace is estimated to have received almost 1,000 live performances since its premiere in 2000. Recommended ...

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There, in front of countless photographers, two of the twentieth century’s most legendary voices embraced and resolved their differences. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Personalities | Bryn Terfel | Modern Era | Opera Houses & Companies | La Scala, Milan | High Romantic | Opera Houses & Companies | The Birth of the Metropolitan Opera | Turn ...

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the former Soviet Union nurtured two of the most exciting singers to be heard today, Sergei Leiferkus (b. 1946) and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (b. 1962). In Britain the young Bryn Terfel launched a successful career after making a great impression at the 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Singers as diverse as Hans Hotter (1909–2003) and José van Dam (b. ...