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19:00 | Michael Spyres (USA) and Dilyara Idrisova (Russia) |
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 American tenor Michael Spyres has amassed an impressive record of major operatic and concert performances in the 2010s, and he has issued several distinctive recital recordings. Spyres made his debut at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 2006, playing Jaquino in Beethoven's Fidelio. He then appeared as Alberto in Rossini's La gazzetta at the Rossini in Wildbad festival in Germany, and went to Japan as part of a touring production of La traviata. Invited back to Bad Wildbad, he scored a breakthrough in the title role of Rossini's Otello in 2008. Since then, Spyres has appeared in major opera houses, including La Scala and Covent Garden, under the likes of Riccardo Muti, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Mark Elder, Valery Gergiev, Emmanuelle Haïm. As of the late 2010s he was slated to make his debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera. In addition to appearing on recordings of operas by Donizetti, Rossini, Berlioz, and Giovanni Simone Mayr, Spyres has released the recital albums A Fool for Love (2011) and Espoir (2017). The latter explored the repertoire of 19th century tenor Gilbert Duprez, who sang both French and Italian opera. In 2016 Spyres returned to Springfield as artistic director of the Springfield Regional Opera. Since Russian soprano 2014 Dilyara Idrisova has been a member of the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Ufa. Her international career began at this time. In the course of the 2014/15 season she took part in a European tour of Handel’s Alessandro, singing Lisaura alongside Julia Lezhneva, Max Emanuel Cencic and Xavier Sabata with Armonia Atenea under George Petrou. Performances were given in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels and at the Handel Festival in Halle. Subsequent appearances included Arasse in Hasse’s Siroe in Kraków, Moscow, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Opéra de Lausanne and the Hesse State Theatre in Wiesbaden, Sabina in Pergolesi’s Adriano in Siria at the Opéra Royal in Versailles and at the Theater an der Wien and Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion at the Philharmonie im Gasteig in Munich.
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