Alasdair Kent

Alasdair Kent is a British-Australian operatic tenor, principally known for his interpretations of Rossini and Mozart.[1]

Alasdair Kent
Alasdair Kent, 2018
Background information
BornPerth, Western Australia
GenresOpera
Occupation(s)Opera singer (tenor)
Years active2013–present
Websitealasdairkent.com

Early life and education

Alasdair Kent was born in Perth, Western Australia. He studied music and performance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and the University of Western Australia with mezzo-soprano Megan Sutton,[2] as well as English literature, and Italian, French and German languages.[2] He sang with the West Australian Opera Chorus for several seasons in various repertoire,[2] and also took part in the Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program.[3] In 2017, he received an Artist Diploma from the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied with Bill Schuman and sang performances of Lindoro (L'italiana in Algeri), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi).[4] He was an Emerging Artist with Opera Philadelphia,[5] and a Filene Young Artist with Wolf Trap Opera,[6] where he performed as Ritornello in Florian Leopold Gassmann's L'opera seria,[7] and Giocondo in Rossini's La pietra del paragone.[8] He also took part in the Martina Arroyo Foundation's Prelude to Performance[9] and the Merola Opera Program.[10]

Career

Kent made his professional debut in Australia at the age of 25, as Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola with Opera Queensland in 2013.[11][12] While at AVA, he made his US concert debut with The Dallas Opera in 2015,[13] and his US operatic debut in 2016 with Opera Philadelphia in Cold Mountain, an operatic adaptation of Charles Frazier's novel composed by Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon.[14][15] His European debut followed in 2017, as Cavaliere Belfiore in Il viaggio a Reims for the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, marking the beginning of his international career.[16] Since then, he has sung at several important theatres, including the Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest continuously active opera theatre in the world, in performances of Rossini's Mosè in Egitto celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of the opera's premiere at the San Carlo.[17]

A tenore di grazia frequently associated with bel canto,[11][18][19][20] his principal repertoire includes roles of Rossini, Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini, Bizet, and Verdi,[21] though he has also performed works by composers as diverse as Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.[4] Of these composers, he has sung most frequently:

Other notable operatic performances include Paolino in Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto, with the Festival della Valle d'Itria and the Teatro Regio di Torino,[32][33][34] Tamino in Die Zauberflöte for the Royal Opera House Muscat,[35][36] Argirio in Rossini's Tancredi with the Teatro Petruzzelli,[37] and his debut as Arturo in I puritani with Ópera de Oviedo in 2020.[38][21] In concert and recital, the tenor's performances include various repertoire, ranging from Rossini's virtuoso Messa di Gloria[39] to Lili Boulanger's intimate song cycle Clairières dans le ciel.[40][41]

Awards

Discography

References
  1. "Alasdair Kent – Biographie". Olyrix. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. "Welcome to Art Song Perth". Art Song Perth Artist Bios. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  3. "Our Alumni". Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  4. "Alasdair Kent". Academy of Vocal Arts Alumni. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  5. "Q&A with Emerging Artist Alasdair Kent". Opera Philadelphia Opera Blog. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  6. "Alasdair Kent". Wolf Trap Opera. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  7. "L'opera seria". Wolf Trap Opera Past Productions. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  8. "La pietra del paragone". Wolf Trap Opera Past Productions. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  9. "Legacy". Martina Arroyo Foundation. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  10. "Program Alumni". Merola Opera Program. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  11. "Bel Canto and Elizabeth Connell Prize winners announced". Limelight Magazine. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  12. "Alasdair Kent". The Dallas Opera Performer Biographies. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  13. "Female conductors – a rarity – shine at Dallas Opera workshop concert". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  14. "Cold Mountain review". Opera News. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  15. "Cold Mountain". Opera Philadelphia What's On 2015–16. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  16. "Archive of Programs, Stagione 2017". Rossini Opera Festival. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  17. "Mosè in Egitto". Teatro di San Carlo. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  18. "AVA Resident Artists Win Big During the Giargiari Bel Canto Competition". AVA Opera Blog. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  19. "Rof, alla scoperta di Alasdair Kent, tenore australiano che sognava di cantare a Pesaro". Pesaro Urbino 24. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  20. "BASEL/ Theater: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Produktion der Komischen Oper Berlin)". Online Merker. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  21. "Alasdair Kent, tenor". Operabase. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  22. "Il barbiere di Siviglia, review". Opernmagazin. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  23. "Il barbiere di Siviglia, Season 2020-2021". Opernhaus Zürich. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  24. "Il barbiere di Siviglia". Oper Köln. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  25. "Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri at the Hungarian State Opera". Magyar Állami Operaház. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  26. "L'italienne à Alger". Opéra de Toulon. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  27. "L'Italienne à Alger". Ópera Orchestre National Montpellier. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  28. "Così fan tutte, March 16-24, 2019". Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  29. "The Great War of the Sexes: Così in Kansas City". Bachtrack. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  30. "Cosi fan tutte". The Israeli Opera. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  31. "Così fan tutte – F.R.L.M." Fondazione Rete Lirica delle Marche. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  32. "Il matrimonio segreto". Festival della Valle d'Itria. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  33. "Secret affairs in an Italian summer: Cimarosa's Matrimonio segreto at Martina Franca". Bachtrack. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  34. "Il matrimonio segreto". Teatro Regio Torino. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  35. "Die Zauberflöte, The Magic Flute". Royal Opera House Muscat. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  36. "Royal Opera House Muscat 2019–20 Review: Die Zauberflöte". Opera Wire. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  37. "Sito Petruzzelli". Teatro Petruzzelli. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  38. "I puritani". Ópera de Oviedo. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  39. "Noé, une soirée exceptionnelle dediée à la danse et à la musique". Pau – Culture et Patrimoine. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  40. "Alasdair Kent". Oper Köln. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  41. "European Journey: French Recital – Productions". Academy of Vocal Arts. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  42. "2017". The Gerda Lissner Foundation. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  43. "Finalists". The Loren L. Zachary Society. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  44. "The Marten Bequest Past Recipients". Australia Council for the Arts. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  45. "Bel Canto Award". The Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  46. The Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, Past Winners 2016 Archived 2016-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
  47. "Voice competition winners announced". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  48. "Vocal Competition". Opera at Florham. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  49. "Poul Ruders: The Thirteenth Child". Bridge Records. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
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