Thomas Allen |

Thomas Allen

Sir Thomas Allen ndi m'modzi mwa odziwika kwambiri padziko lapansi. Mawu ake amamveka m'nyumba zodziwika bwino za opera: London's Covent Garden ndi New York Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala, Bavarian ndi Scottish Operas, zisudzo ku Los Angeles, Chicago ndi Dallas, komanso pa zikondwerero zotchuka ku Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Spoleto. .

Mu 2006, woyimbayo adakondwerera zaka zake 35 ku Covent Garden Theatre, komwe adachita maudindo opitilira 50.

Thomas Allen anabadwa mu 1944. Anamaliza maphunziro awo ku Royal College of Music. Adapanga kuwonekera koyamba kugulu mu 1969 ngati Figaro (Rossini's The Barber of Seville) ku Welsh National Opera. Patatha zaka zitatu, adaimba koyamba ku Covent Garden mu opera ya Billy Budd yolembedwa ndi B. Britten.

Thomas Allen adadziwika kwambiri chifukwa cha mawonekedwe a anthu a Mozart pa siteji: Count Almaviva, Don Alfonso, Papageno, Guglielmo komanso, Don Juan. Zina mwa maudindo ake a “korona” ndi Billy Budd (mu opera ya Britten ya dzina lomweli), Pelléas (“Pelléas et Mélisande” lolemba Debussy), Eugene Onegin (mu opera ya Tchaikovsky ya dzina lomweli), Ulysses (mu opera ya L. Dallapikkola wa dzina lomweli), Beckmesser (“The Nuremberg Meistersingers” wa Wagner).

Zochita zaposachedwa za woimbayo zikuphatikiza kuchita gawo lamutu mu Puccini's Gianni Schicchi pa Spoleto Festival komanso ku Los Angeles Opera; udindo waukulu mu nyimbo "Sweeney Todd" ndi S. Sondheim, Beckmesser ("The Meistersingers of Nuremberg" ndi Wagner), Faninal ("The Rosenkavalier" ndi R. Strauss), Prosdochimo ("The Turk in Italy" by Rossini) , Woimba (“Ariadne auf Naxos” R . Strauss), Peter (Hansel ndi Gretel ya Humperdinck) ndi Don Alfonso (So Do Every ya Mozart) ku Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus ndi I. Strauss) pa Phwando la Glyndeburn komanso ku Bavarian State Opera; Don Alfonso, Ulysses ndi Don Giovanni ku Bavarian State Opera; Don Alfonso ku Dallas Opera, Lyric Opera ya Chicago, Salzburg Easter ndi Chikondwerero cha Chilimwe; The Forester (The Adventures of the Cunning Fox ndi Janáček) ku San Francisco Opera, Beckmesser, Don Alfonso ndi Woyimba (Ariadne auf Naxos ndi R. Strauss) ku New York Metropolitan Opera.

Kutchuka kocheperako kunabweretsedwa kwa woimbayo ndi machitidwe ake a konsati. Amapereka zoimbaimba ku UK, Europe, Australia, America, amagwirizana ndi oimba akuluakulu komanso otsogolera odziwika bwino. Zambiri mwazolemba zake zalembedwa ndi akatswiri ochita zojambulajambula monga G. Solti, J. Levine, N. Marriner, B. Haitink, S. Rattle, V. Zavallish ndi R. Muti. Chojambulidwa cha opera ya Mozart Le nozze di Figaro ndi woimbayo motsogozedwa ndi Georg Solti adalandira mphotho ya Grammy mu 1983.

Mu nyengo yatsopano, zisudzo za wojambula zikukonzekera ku Covent Garden Theatre, Metropolitan Opera, Scottish Opera, zisudzo ku Los Angeles ndi Chicago, komanso kuwonekera koyamba kugulu ku State Academic Bolshoi Theatre ku Russia.

Woimbayo walandira maudindo ndi mphoto zambiri: Kammersänger wa Bavarian Opera, Membala Wolemekezeka wa Royal Academy of Music, Pulofesa wa Prince Consort wa Royal College of Music, Pulofesa Woyendera wa Opera Studio ya Oxford University, Royal College of Music. , University of Sunderland, Doctor of Music of Durham ndi Birmingham Universities. Mu 1989, Thomas Allen adapatsidwa Order of the Britain Empire, ndipo mu 1999, pokondwerera tsiku lobadwa la Mfumukazi, adalandira udindo wa Knight Bachelor (Knight Bachelor).

Thomas Allen akulemba mabuku (mu 1993 buku lake loyamba, Foreign Parts - A Singer's Journal linasindikizidwa), lokhala ndi nyenyezi mu zolemba ("Mrs. Henderson Presents" ndi "The Real Don Juan").

Gwero: Tsamba la Moscow Philharmonic