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Biographie (leider nur auf Englisch) Appearing regularly on the international stage since 2003, American bass Steven Humes has performed such roles as Sarastro, Fasolt, Ramfis, Oroveso, Wurm, Gremin, Commendatore, Publio, Biterolf, Lodovico, Pistola, Alaska-Wolf Joe, Truffaldin, Wagner, Eremit, Titurel and Timur among many others. Important opera companies with which he has appeared include the Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Real in Madrid, Théatre des Champs Elysées, Hamburg Staatsoper, Baden-Baden, the Bolshoi, the Salzburg Festival, Luxembourg's Les Théâtres de la Ville, Reiti Festival in Rome, Tokyo's Bunka Kaikan and NHK, and numerous American houses including Los Angeles Opera, Atlanta Opera, St. Louis Opera Theater, Boston Lyric Opera, Chicago Opera Theater and Chicago's Ravinia Festival. Future invitations include both Fafner roles in Geneva's Ring, Mahagonny at the Bolshoi, Rocco with Torino's Teatro Regio, Commendatore with the Théatre des Champs Elysées, Frau Ohne Schatten with Christian Theilemann at the Salzburg Festival, Ariadne auf Naxos with Christian Theilemann in Baden-Baden and Semele with Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. |
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One of his many DVD recordings is the highly acclaimed double-grammy winning Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Los Angeles opera in 2007 with James Conlon. Opera News hailed "Humes was a stentorian Alaska-Wolf Joe". He recorded the role for DVD again in 2010 with a Fura de los Baus production at Madrid's Teatro Real. Other recordings of note include grammy nominated La Traviata with Ivor Bolton conducting, Idomeneo (DVD) in Munich's Cuvillies Theater with Kent Nagano conducting, Alice in Wonderland (DVD) named Best World Premier 2007 by OpernWelt magazine, and both Lucrezia Borgia (DVD) and Roberto Deveraux (DVD) with Edita Gruberova. Sought after as a concert soloist, Mr. Humes' repertoire includes Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Mozart Requiem, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, the Verdi Requiem and Bach's St. Matthew's Passion. Mr Humes has performed in many celebrated concert venues including the Vatican, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Naval Academy in Annapolis MD and has performed with numerous symphonies including the Atlanta Symphony, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra and regularly performs with the Rundfunk and Philharmonie orchestras of Munich. Mr. Humes received his musical education at New England Conservatory and Boston University and was a season member of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Germany for eight years. Bio May 2011 |
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