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Gregory Kunde

Tenor

  • Regarded as one of the most accomplished singers on the international opera stage today, the American tenor Gregory Kunde appears regularly at the most prestigious opera houses around the world, working with conductors and orchestras of the highest calibre. Kunde’s achievements have been recognised with a number of awards, most recently ‘Male Singer of the Year’ at the 2016 International Opera Awards.

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  • Highlights of the 2022/23 season include his role debut as Bacchus Ariadne auf Naxos at the Semperoper Dresden, his much anticipated return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Manrico Il Trovatore, Don Alvaro La Forza del destino for the Verdi Festival, Teatro Regio di Parma, Title Role Andrea Chènier for Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Cavaradossi Tosca for LA Opera and also Canio Pagliacci and Luigi Il Tabarro for Teatro dell'opera di Roma.


    Recent highlights include Manrico Il Trovatore for LA Opera, Title Role Otello at the Wiener Staatsoper, Calaf Turandot for Hamburg State Opera, Énée Les Troyens and title Role Otello for the Bayerische Staatsoper, title role Otello at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Calaf Turandot and title role Otello at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Jean de Leyden Le prophète at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the title role Don Carlos for Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Samson Samson et Dalila at the Metropolitan Opera, title role Otello for Opéra national de Paris and Opéra de Monte-Carlo, title role Andrea Chénier and Radames Aida at the Wiener Staatsoper, Calaf Turandot at the Teatro Real, Madrid, Renato des Grieux Manon Lescaut in concert for Dallas Opera, Don Alvaro La forza del destino at the Semperoper Dresden, title role Peter Grimes at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, Radames Aida at the Teatro Real, Madrid, and a return to the podium to conduct Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro La Fenice. 


    On the concert platform, recent highlights include Title Role Ernani for the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Verdi Requiem and Calaf Turandot with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta, Das Lied von der Erde at the BBC Proms, Verdi Requiem in Bilbao, the title role Verdi Otello at the Cincinnati May Festival, title role Peter Grimes with Sir Antonio Pappano at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Faust La damnation de Faust in concert at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with Charles Dutoit.


    Acclaimed throughout his earlier career for his performances in French and Italian bel canto roles, Kunde has now established himself as a leading exponent of many of the Verdi roles and other such dramatic repertoire. Since his critically acclaimed debut as Verdi Otello at La Fenice in 2012, he has performed this signature role in Valencia, Genoa, Salerno, Florence, Turin, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Seoul, and São Paulo. Since moving into this repertoire, Kunde earned the unique distinction of being the only tenor in recorded history to perform both Rossini Otello and Verdi Otello in the same season (2014/15 and 2015/16).


    Kunde’s discography includes his solo album Vincerò! (Universal Music Group), Verdi Il Trovatore at Royal Opera House London (Opus Arte DVD), Berlioz Les Troyens at the Théâtre du Châtelet (Opus Arte DVD, Gramophone magazine’s ‘DVD of the Year’), Benvenuto Cellini (Virgin Classics CD, Gramophone’s ‘Opera Recording of the Year’), Benvenuto Cellini with Sir Colin Davis (LSO Live CD), and Verdi Otello from the Palazzo Ducale in Venice (Unitel DVD).

    2022/23 season / 562 words. Not to be altered without permission.

Performances

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Opera repertoire

Bellini
Pollione Norma


Berlioz
Cellini Benvenuto Cellini
Title role La damnation de Faust
Enée Les Troyens


Bizet
Don José Carmen


Britten
Captain Vere Billy Budd
Aschenbach Death in Venice
Title role Peter Grimes 


Donizetti
Title role Poliuto
Title role Roberto Devereux


Gluck
Alceste Admète 


Gounod
Title role Faust


Halevy
La Juíve Eléazar


Massenet
Des Grieux Manon
Title role Werther


Meyerbeer
Raoul Les Huguenots
Title role Robert le diable


Mozart
Title role La clemenza di Tito
Title role Idomeneo


Puccini
Cavaradossi Tosca
Des Grieux Manon Lescaut
Calaf Turandot
Dick Johnson La fanciulla del West
Pinkerton Madama Butterfly


Rossini
Rodrigo La donna del lago
Leicester Elizabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra
Pirro Ermione
Arnold Guillaume Tell
Title role Otello
Argirio Tancredi
Antenore Zelmira


Saint-Saëns
Title role Samson et Delila


Verdi
Radames Aida
Riccardo/Gustav V Un ballo in Maschera
Title role Don Carlos (Fr, It)
Don Alvaro La forza del Destino
Rodolfo Luisa Miller
Manrico Il Trovatore
Arrigo I vespiri Siciliani
Henrí Les vêpres Siciliennes
Title role Otello 

"Kunde had a beautiful success as Samson, singing with clear, strong, focused tone and acting with moving reserve. In cleaner, more robust voice than many tenors a generation younger (even on their healthy days), he rose by the end to genuine nobility, passionate without strain."

New York Times, March 2019

“The American tenor Gregory Kunde never ceases to amaze and dazzle us"

Opera online, May 2019

Intermusica represents Gregory Kunde worldwide, excluding Italy and Spain.

Julia Maynard
Deputy Chief Executive / Head of Vocal & Opera
+44 20 7608 9902
jmaynard@intermusica.com

Zara Fyfe-Williams
Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera
+44 20 7608 9914
zfyfewilliams@intermusica.com

Lucy Roberts
Assistant Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera
+44 20 7608 9909
lroberts@intermusica.com

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Chansonnier

HK Gruber

Counter-tenor

Tim Mead

Piano accompanist

Roger Vignoles