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Dean Power
Tenor
Irish tenor Dean Power was born in Clarecastle, Ireland, and studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and D.I.T. Conservatory of Music and Drama in Dublin. In 2020-21, Dean completed his final season as a member of the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, where he was resident since graduating from the company’s Opera Studio at the end of the 2011-12 season. After ten years as an ensemble member, Dean now continues to expand upon his already growing career as an international solo guest artist.
In his 2021-22 season, Dean makes his debut at the Salzburger Festspiele in Puccini’s Il Trittico, his house debut at Opéra de Lille as Snout A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a new production by Laurent Pelly, and joins Irish National Opera both as Jaquino Fidelio and to create the role of Gary in the world premiere of the commissioned opera, The First Child by Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy and Irish playwright Enda Walsh.
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House debut: Opéra de Lille

Dean makes his house debut at the Opera de Lille, singing the role of Snout in a new production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Laurent Pelly.
Under the baton of French conductor Guillaume Tourniaire, Dean will also sing alongside a cast that includes Nils Wanderer (Oberon), Marie-Eve Munger (Tytania), and as his fellow player and mechanics: Dominic Barberi (Bottom) as well as Gwilym Bowen, David Ireland, Thibault de Damas and Kamil Ben Hsaïn Lachiri.
A Midsummer Night's Dream opens on Friday 6 May, with further performances on 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22. Following performances in Lille, this summer Dean makes his company debut a the Salzburg Festival in Puccini's Il Tabarro.
Posted 03/05/2022
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Repertoire Includes
Concert
BACH
Magnificat
B Minor Mass
St Matthew Passion (Arias)
St John Passion (Evangelits & Arias)
Weihnachtsoratorium 1-3
BEETHOVEN
An Die Ferne Geliebte
Symphony No. 6
Missa Solemnis
BRITTEN
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
BUTTERWORTH
A Shropshire Lad
FRANCK
Mass for 3 Voices
HAYDN
Die Schöpfung
Pakenmesse
Nelson Mass
HANDEL
Messiah
Jeptha
MAHLER
Das Lied von der Erde
Kindertotenlieder
MENDELSSOHN
Lobgesang
MOZART
Requiem
Mass in C Minor
Coronation Mass
ORFF
Carmina Burana
ROSSINI
Petite Messe Solennelle
SCHUMANN
Das Paradies und die Peri
Myrthen
SCHUBERT
Mass E-Flat Major
Mass No. 5
Mass in C
Gebet (for 4 soloists without choir)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Songs of Travel
VERDI
Requiem
WEBBER
Requiem
Opera
ABRAHAMSEN
The Snow Queen (Prince)
BIZET
Carmen (Dancaire)
BEETHOVEN
Fidelio (Jaquino)
DONIZETTI
Lucia di Lammermoor (Normanno)
HANDEL
Rodelinda (Grimaldo)
JANACEK
From the House of the Dead (Čerevin)
KORNGOLD
Die tote Stadt (Graf Albert)
KRENEK
Karl V (Ferdinand/Ein Anhänger Luthers)
MOZART
Cosi fan tutte (Ferrando)
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Belmonte)
Die Zauberflöte (Tamino)
Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio)
Le Nozze di Figaro (Don Curzio)
OFFENBACH
Les Contes D'Hoffmann (Nathanael)
PUCCINI
Gianni Schicchi (Gherardo)
Tosca (Spoletta)
SCHREKER
Die Gezeichneten (Pietro)
SRNKA
South Pole (Lawrence Yates)
STRAUSS, R.
Arabella (Graf Elemer)
Adriadne auf Naxos (Scaramuccio)
Die Frau ohne Schatten (Erscheinung eines Jünglings/Der Bucklige)
Der Rosenkavalier (Der Wirt)
Salome (Third Jew)
TCHAIKOVSKY
Eugene Onegin (Lensky)
VERDI
Falstaff (Fenton)
I Masnadieri (Rolla)
Les Vêpres Siciliennes (Thibaut)
Macbeth (Malcolm)
Nabucco (Ismaele)
Otello (Rodrigo/Cassio)
WAGNER
Das Rheingold (Froh)
Der Fliegende Hollände (Steuermann)
Die Meistersinger von Nûrnberg (Eisslinger)
Tannhâuser (Walther von der Vogelweide)