Wednesday, June 14, 2006

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)