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Jeffrey Black
Won in 1983
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Brisbane-born Jeffrey Black made his
operatic debut in 1984 as a principal artist of The Australian
Opera. He made his UK debut in 1986 at the Glyndebourne Festival,
and has since appeared internationally with many leading opera
companies including The Metropolitan Opera New York, The Royal Opera
Covent Garden, Los Angeles Opera, Netherlands Opera, the Opera
Bastille Paris, Geneva Opera, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera,
New Israeli Opera, Washington Opera, Vlaamse Opera, Bayerische
Staatsoper, Munich, at the Teatro Colon Buenos Aires as well as the
festivals of Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence.
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He is a noted interpreter of the
great Mozart roles of Don Giovanni, the Count in Le nozze di
Figaro and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, his extensive
repertoire includes Schaunard in La bohème, Papageno in
The Magic Flute, Dr Falke in Die Fledermaus, Dandini in
La cenerentola, Zurga in Les pecheurs de perles, the
title role in Eugene Onegin, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor,
Rodrigo in Don Carlos, the Count in Capriccio, Wolfram
in Tannhauser, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Ford
in Falstaff and Balstrode in Peter Grimes.
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On the concert platform Jeffrey Black
has toured for the ABC and appeared in recital with Geoffrey
Parsons. His other concert engagements include performances with
the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Die Fledermaus,
Carmina Burana (which was also recorded by EMI), as first
Christus in Bach's St Matthew Passion under Franz Welser-Möst,
and arena concerts with Kiri Te Kanawa in London, Stockholm, Sydney
and Melbourne. His recording of Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden
Gesellen with the Sydney Soloists for ABC Classics was released
in March 2003.
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Recent performances have included
appearances with Opera Australia as Count in Le nozze di Figaro,
the title role in Don Giovanni,
Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and Danilo in a new
production of The Merry Widow, Carmina Burana with The
Queensland Choir, Haydn's Creation and Messiah with
Christchurch City Choir, and Escamillio in Carmen for Opera
Queensland.
- For Jeffrey's
testimonial,click here.
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