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BRAMA, May 7, 2000, 4:00pm EST
Adrian Bryttan will conduct The New Jersey Youth
Symphony performing Act I from Wagner's Die Walküre. The leading roles will be sung by
Stefano Algieri (Siegmund), Gustavo Halley (Hunding), and Amanda Mace (Sieglinde).
Adrian Bryttan: Conductor of the
Youth Symphony and Philharmonia, Maestro Adrian Bryttan brings to the podium the integrity
of a refined, insightful and stylish musician. His performances attest to a sweeping
command of the repertoire and includes contemporary premieres by George Rochberg, Ludmila
Ulehla and Eugene Philips, among others. As Music Director, Mr. Bryttan has developed
numerous orchestras, including the LaPorte Symphony and Orchestra Nova in Pittsburgh.
Since 1982 Mr. Bryttan has been in great demand as an opera conductor, receiving
invitations from such diverse venues as Chicago Opera Theater, New Haven and New Rochelle
Opera Theaters, the Bielefeld Opera in Germany, the Sinfonia Varsovia in Poland, and the
Lviv and Kharkiv Opera Theaters in Ukraine. In addition to all the standard operas of
Mozart, Verdi, and Puccini, he is equally at home in such complex works as Ravel's L'Heure
Espagnole and Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. In 1993 he led the world premiere of the
opera Sybil by Ludmila Ulehla in New York.
Mr. Bryttan has been Principal guest conductor with the Lviv Philharmonic and also led new
productions of Otello, Madame Butterfly, Il Trovatore, and Cavalleria Rusticana for Lviv
Opera Theater. His conducting of Tosca was a highlight of the 1996 operatic season in
Kharkiv Opera.
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New Jersey Youth Symphony rehearsing Act 1, Die Walküre with Craig Mumm, Metropolitan Opera Associate Principal Violist | |
Stephano Algieri was most recently invited by James Levine to join the Met Opera this season for the second cast of Tristan and as Canio. He has performed in some of the most important opera houses of the world, including the Staatsoper Wien, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf), Leipzig, Amsterdam, New York City Opera, and others. His repertoire encompasses the great dramatic tenor roles like Andrea Chenier, don Carlo, Florestan, Erik, Siegmund, Manrico, Samson, Don Alvaro, Tristan. In 2000 he will debut at Chicago Lyric as Cavaradossi and in 2001 will sing Otello with Nashville Opera.
Gustavo Halley has also performed in many of the leading theaters all over the world, including Hamburg, Graz, Innsbruck, LaScala, Münster, Saarbrücken, Aachen, Warsaw, Lviv, Mexico City and Miami Opera. Among the roles he is noted for are King mark, Hunding, Boris, Seneca, Don Carlos' King Philip, Falstaff and Don Giovanni. currently he is also a professor on the voice faculty at University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Amanda Mace (Sieglinde) is only twenty four years old and is already on the road towards the dramatic soprano repertoire of Flagstad and Nilsson. A graduate student at UMKC, she has won many awards for beauty and power of voice and artistry and has most recently performed the leading roles in Suor Angelica and It tabarro.
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| New Jersey Youth Symphony rehearsing Act 1, Die Walküre with Raymond Gniewek, Concertmaster Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | |
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