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Biography
Born in North Wales in 1965, Bryn Terfel enters London''s Guildhall
School of Music in 1984, studying first with Arthur Reckless and later
with Rudolf Piernay. In 1988 he wins the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial
Scholarship and the following year graduates from the Guildhall,
receiving the school''s Gold Medal. Shortly after that he represents
Wales in the “Singer of the World" Competition in Cardiff and launches
his career by winning the lieder prize.
| 1990 | Opera d?İbut as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) at Welsh National Opera; CD release of Monteverdi''s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (Record Academy Prize, Japan, Stella d''oro 1991) |
| 1991 | English
National Opera d?İbut as Mozart''s Figaro; US d?İbut at Santa Fe as
Figaro; sings Jochanaan in Deutsche Grammophon release of Strauss''s Salome under Giuseppe Sinopoli (Edison Award, Grand Prix de la Nouvelle Acad?İmie, Orph?İe d''or, Stella d''argento 1992) |
| 1992 | Breakthrough Salzburg Festival d?İbut as Jochanaan in Salome; Covent Garden d?İbut as Masetto in Don Giovanni; becomes the first artist to receive the Critics'' Circle Award for the most important contribution to British musical life; sings Angelotti in DG release of Puccini''s Tosca under Sinopoli (Record Academy Prize, Japan, 1992, CD Compact, Stella d''argento 1993); Gramophone magazine names him “Young Singer of the Year" |
| 1993 | Signs first exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon; triumphant Vienna State Opera d?İbut as Mozart''s Figaro; sings Ford in Falstaff at Welsh National Opera; named “Newcomer of the Year" at the International Classical Music Awards;
takes part in the Wagner Gala Concert on New Year''s Eve with Claudio
Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker, recorded live by Deutsche
Grammophon |
| 1994 | Appears as Figaro at Covent Garden and at Metropolitan d?İbut; first recitals
in London''s Wigmore Hall, at the Salzburg Festival, and in Florence; US
recital d?İbut in New York''s Alice Tully Hall; soloist at the “Last
Night of the Proms"; sings Figaro in Archiv Produktion CD (Edison Award, Grand Prix de la Nouvelle Acad?İmie 1995) and video release conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; sings Baron Mirko Zeta in CD release of Leh?°r''s Merry Widow under Gardiner (Diapason d''or 1995); release of the CD An die Musik with Schubert songs accompanied by Malcolm Martineau (Gramophone Award 1995) |
| 1995 | Leporello in Don Giovanni
at the Met; Leporello and Figaro at the Salzburg Festival; Jochanaan at
Covent Garden; recital d?İbut at La Scala, Milan; release of the CD The Vagabond with songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, Gerald Finzi, and John Ireland (Prix Caecilia 1995, Edison Award, Gramophone Award 1996) |
| 1996 | Leporello at Salzburg; d?İbut recital at New York''s Carnegie Hall; CD releases include opera arias under James Levine (Grammy Award 1996) and Something Wonderful with songs by Rodgers & Hammerstein (Gramophone Award 1997) |
| 1997 | La Scala d?İbut as Figaro; CD release of Handel arias under Sir Charles Mackerras |
| 1998 | Hollywood Bowl d?İbut; CD releases include Leporello in Don Giovanni under Abbado, Mephistopheles in Berlioz''s Damnation de Faust conducted by Myung-Whun Chung, Requiems by Faur?İ and Durufl?İ also under Chung (Classical Brit Award 2000), and If Ever I Would Leave You, a collection of famous Broadway songs with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner |
| 1999 | Appears as
Falstaff at the Sydney Opera House, Chicago Lyric Opera, and the
re-opening of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; sings the title
role of Don Giovanni for the first time in Paris; sings the title role of Handel''s Saul under
Mackerras at the Edinburgh Festival; concert tour of Australia and New
Zealand; sings Nick Shadow in CD release of Stravinsky''s The Rake''s Progress under Gardiner (Grammy Award 2000) |
| 2000 | Met appearances as Lindorf/Coppelius/Dr. Miracle/Dapertutto in Les Contes d''Hoffmann
and as Don Giovanni; Nick Shadow at the San Francisco Opera; sings
Berlioz''s Mephistopheles at the Edinburgh Festival; inaugural season of
Bryn Terfel''s Faenol Festival in North Wales; CD releases: We''ll Keep a Welcome - “the Welsh Album" - and a recording of Schumann lieder |
| 2001 | Sings Don
Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera, Figaro in Tokyo; Figaro and
Falstaff in Munich; Falstaff at the Salzburg Festival; concert and
recital tour of the Far East; in April records Falstaff for Deutsche
Grammophon in Berlin with Abbado (Record Academy Prize, Japan, 2001 “Grand Prize"; Vierteljahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2001, Echo Award,
Germany, 2002); in December, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the
Nobel Prize, performs with Anne Sofie von Otter before an illustrious
audience of all the Nobel Prize winners, who have made their way to
Stockholm for the event |
| 2002 | Appearances
include Don Giovanni at Covent Garden, Falstaff at the Metropolitan
Opera, Falstaff and Nick Shadow at the Bavarian State Opera, four roles
in Les Contes d''Hoffmann at the Paris Op?İra-Bastille, and
Sondheim''s Sweeney Todd (d?İbut) at the Chicago Lyric Opera; his Faenol
Festival wins the Welsh Tourism Award as “Greatest Show in Wales -
Event of the Year" 2001; CD release this year of arias by Wagner under
Claudio Abbado (Prix Caecilia, 2003) |
| 2003 | DVD release “Bryn Terfel live in concert",
songs and arias filmed live in concert at the Concertgebouw on 1 June
2002 in Amsterdam; recitals and concerts in Norway and Sweden; concert
with Abbado at the Lucerne Festival; this year''s Faenol Festival
includes an opera gala with Jos?İ Carreras; “Proms in the Park" concert
in London''s Hyde Park; Falstaff at Covent Garden and the Vienna State
Opera; awarded a CBE for services to opera in the Queen''s New Year
Honours list; his platinum-selling new Deutsche Grammophon album
(recorded in March) with a broad range of songs and spirituals, arias
and duets, featuring Sissel and Andrea Bocelli, is released on CD and
SACD in autumn 2003 which receives the 2004 Classical Brit Award ”Album
of the Year” |
| 2004 | Is named ”Male Artist of the Year” at the 5th annual Classical Brit Awards. Don Giovanni at Chicago Lyric Opera, further performances of Falstaff in Vienna, Jochanaan in Salome at the Metropolitan and his role debut as Mephistopheles in a new production of Gounod’s Faust at Covent Garden; in December sings his first Wotan in Das Rheingold
in a new production at Covent Garden of Wagner’s Ring; recital tour of
the US and Canada; his next recording, a second English anthology with
pianist Malcolm Martineau, featuring songs by Britten, Gurney, Keel,
Parry, Quilter, Somervell, Vaughan Williams and Warlock, is scheduled
for release |
| 2005 | Named ”Male Artist of the Year” at the 6th annual Classical Brit Awards. Sensational debut as Wotan in Die Walküre
in Covent Garden’s new Ring production; appears as Falstaff in debuts
at Houston Grand Opera and Los Angeles Opera as well as reprising the
role at the Met; concert with Ren?İe Fleming at Montreal’s Place des
Arts. Deutsche Grammophon releases on CD include Silent Noon, a second
anthology of English songs (with pianist Malcolm Martineau), Simple Gifts – songs of ”inspiration” with the London Symphony Orchestra under Barry Wordsworth and, on DVD Don Giovanni from the Metropolitan under James Levine
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| 2006 |
Plans include Der fliegende Holländer at the Wales Millenium Centre and a return to Covent Garden as Scarpia in Tosca. A DVD of Salome from the Metropolitan with Karita Mattila, conducted by Valery Gergiev is planned for release this year.
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