Vitae
Paul Kirby
contact info:
paul@paulkirby.no
Staged Works
Prologue/Peter Quint Britten Turn of the Screw Opéra-Théâtre Metz
Tamino Mozart Die Zauberflöte Opéra de Massy
Tom Rakewell Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress The Opera Lab, Boston
Albert Britten Albert Herring Boston University Opera
Almaviva Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia Festival Lyrique de St. Céré,
First Shepherd Monteverdi Orfeo Opera of St. Louis
Consiglio Cavalieri Rap. Di Animo et di Corpo Tragicomedia
Joseph Méhul La Légende de Joseph Théâtre Fr. Musique
Prince Caprice Offenbach Le voyage dans la Lune Opera-Théâtre Metz Artisan/Seigneur
Bizet La Jolie Fille de Perth Théâtre Fr. De la Musique
Ali Glück Les Pelerins de la Mecque Les Arts Florissants
Major Duomo Tchaikovsky Pique Dame The Boston Symphony
Agenore Mozart Il Re Pastore Boston Lyric Opera
Ory Rossini Le Comte Ory Boston University Opera
Harlekin Ullman Des Kaiser v. Atlantis Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
Cégeste Glass Orphée (world premiere) Brooklyn Acad. Of Music
Roles Covered:
Don Ottavio Mozart Don Giovanni Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Tito Mozart La Clemenza di Tito Opera Theatre of St. Louis
Apollo Monteverdi Orfeo Opera Theatre of St. Louis
(covering Anthony Rolfe-Johnson)
Satyavan Holst Savitri Les Jardins Musicaux (CH)
Concert works:
J.S. Bach Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio, Cantatas (50+) including BWV nos. 25, 80, 86, 102, 108, 128, 135, 140, 150, 163, 175, Johannes-Passion, Matthäus-Passion
CPE Bach Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Oratorio
Britten Serenade, Cantata Academica, Canticles 1,2, 3, 5
Martin Le Vin Herbé, Pilate, Requiem
Mendelssohn Elijah
Orff Carmina Burana
Satie Socrates
Training/Education
Ensemble Program Opera Theatre of St. Louis 1995, 1996
Diploma Boston University Opera Institute 1996
Fellow Tanglewood Music Center 1990
MM Voice Boston University 1989
BA Music Blackburn College 1986
Conductors Seiji Ozawa, Christopher Hogwood, William Christie, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Harding, Emmanuel Villaume, Yves Abel, John Harbison, Martin Pearlman, Dennis Russel Davies, Jerome Pillement, Dominique Trottein, Michel Piquemal, Stephen Stubbs, Paul Van Nevel, Valentin Reymond, Christophe Coin, Terje Kvam, Carl Høgset
Stage Directors Peter Brook, Francesca Zambello, John Copley, Colin Graham, John Haber, Will Graham, David Knuess, Neil-Peter Jampolis, Georg Rootering, Laurence Dale, Olivier Desbordes, François Rochaix
Languages English (mother tongue), French, Norwegian (fluent), German (moderate)