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Dean Power
Tenor
Dean is currently a member of the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper, where in 2017 he was awarded the Festspielpreis by the Friends and Sponsors of the Bayerische Staatsoper Festival. Dean hails from Clarecastle, Ireland. Prior to joining the ensemble, he trained at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and D.I.T. Conservatory of Music and Drama, and graduated from the Munich Opera Studio in 2012. Outside of Munich, his guest appearances have included Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Gärtnerplatz Staatstheater, Théâtre des Champs- Elysées and NHK Tokyo, as well as the Bamberg Symphoniker, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bayerische Philharmonie.
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Dean Power and Caspar Singh: new Munich season launches
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As COVID restrictions begin to tentatively lift across the arts for performers and audience alike, September brings the announcement of newly adapted seasons from many opera houses and theatres, striving to keep the arts alive under new guidelines. The Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich opens their 2020-21 season on 3 September presenting Ambroise Thomas’s Mignon, with young tenor Caspar Singh starring as Wilhelm Meister in a new production directed by Christiane Lutz. [Further performances on 8, 14 & 19 September.]
This season, Caspar embarks on his first year as a member of the ensemble of the Bayerische Staatsoper, having now completed his final year at Munich’s Opera Studio. Later this season, Caspar will go on to make role debuts as Edmondo in Manon Lescaut, Gastone in La Traviata, Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos, the Prince in The Snow Queen and High Priest of Neptune in Idomeneo.
In other news from the Bayerische Staatsoper ensemble, with 2020/21 tenor Dean Power completes his final season after 10 years as an ensemble member, as he begins to expand upon his already growing career as an international solo guest artist. In his final season, Dean’s roles will include Malcolm Macbeth, Jaquino Fidelio, Spoletta Tosca, Gherardo Gianni Schicchi, Walther von der Vogelweide Tannhauser, as well as 4th Knappe Parsifal conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, both in Munich and on tour to Théâtre des Champs Elysées.
Click here to find out more about the upcoming season at the Bayerische Staatsoper.
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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
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)
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)
