AboutOfficial Site: http://www.kurtstreit.com/home.htmlConsidered one of the world's best Mozart interpreters throughout his career, Kurt Streit's performances of Mozart operas continue to be met with rave reviews: "Kurt Streit masters the monster-role of Idomeneo with confidence, powerfully impressive!" (Der Standard, Vienna) and "Kurt Streit is totally convincing as Idomeneo. His tenor radiates power, brilliance, grandeur" (Kronenzeitung, Vienna). Streit's signature roles are Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, which he has performed over 150 times in 23 different opera houses around the world and Idomeneo, with seven productions behind him in Naples, Vienna, Madrid, London, Hamburg, Bilbao and Lausanne. He also sings the title role in La Clemenza di Tito, with past performances in New York, Vienna, Salzburg and Frankfurt. He performed in numerous productions of Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and Die Entführung aus dem Serail in the opera houses of San Francisco, Chicago, London (Royal Opera, Covent Garden), Salzburg... Future Mozart opera productions include Idomeneo, Tito and La Finta Giardiniera in Madrid, Vienna, Turin and London (Covent Garden). Kurt Streit has appeared on all the world's major opera stages from The Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, from Salzburg to Aix-en-Provence, San Francisco to La Scala in Milan. In opera and concert, he has appeared with the world's foremost conductors including Harnoncourt (with whom he works regularly), Muti, Rattle, Gardiner, Sawallisch, Mehta, Levine, Chung, Maazel, with the noted symphony orchestras of Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Boston, Florence, Stockholm and all four of London's major orchestras. Kurt Streit can be seen as well as heard on Warner Music's DVD of Rodelinda from Glyndebourne and Dynamic's DVD of Idomeneo from Naples. His discography includes two complete recordings of Così fan tutte (with Daniel Barenboim on the Erato label and with Sir Simon Rattle on EMI), Die Zauberflöte on L'Oiseau-Lyre, Die Entführung aus dem Serail on Sony Classical, as well as Cherubini's Mass in D-minor with Riccardo Muti (EMI) and Franz Schmidt's Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln for Teldec with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. The Brahms Liebeslieder-Walzer recording for EMI was nominated for a prestigious Grammy award. Most recently he recorded Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Sir Simon Rattle and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (EMI) and the Mozart Requiem with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Concentus Musicus (BMG). In addition, Kurt Streit is in great demand as a performer of post-Mozartian works, by composers such as Janacek (Jenufa), Strauss (Capriccio), Britten (Turn of the Screw, Midsummer Night's Dream), Wagner (Meistersinger, Der fliegende Holländer), and Tchaikovsky (Eugene Onegin), while his extensive repertoire also looks back to Handel. He has performed Semele at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Jephtha and Theodora with Concentus Musicus in Vienna's Musikverein, Rodelinda in Paris and Glyndebourne, and Partenope in Chicago: "Kurt Streit as Emilio: superb voice, superb artistry" (Chicago Tribune). Most recently, Kurt Streit made role debuts as Don Jose (Carmen) with the Styriarte Festival in Graz and Florestan (Beethoven's 1805 first version of Fidelio) with the Klangbogen Festival in Vienna. He also sang the title roles in Lucio Silla for Vienna's Festwochen and La Clemenza di Tito in Frankfurt and Vienna. In 2006 he can be seen in London's Covent Garden for La Finta Giardiniera. Other future engagements include his debut as Nero in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea in Los Angeles, Erik in Wagner's Der fliegende Hollaender in Barcelona's Liceu and Boris in Janacek's Katja Kabanova in Amsterdam and at Covent Garden. |
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