This week, we are pleased to welcome among our artists the very talented American baritone Dean Murphy.
Dean is in his second and final season in the Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich, where he has already appeared as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, as well as in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Die Gezeichneten, Andreas Homoki’s new production of Sweeney Todd, and Tatjana Gürbaca’s new production of Le Grand Macabre.
In the 2019/20 season at Opernhaus Zürich, he appears as the Notary in Christof Loy’s new production of Don Pasquale, Schaunard in La Bohème, Pieter in the World Premiere of Girl with a Pearl Earring, and Moralès in Carmen, after a season opening in Norway for a concert with the Bergen National Opera.
Recent successes include Don Alvaro & Lord Sidney (Il Viaggio a Reims) at Rossini Opera Festival, Moralès (Carmen) at Gstaad Menuhin Festival and numerous roles at Deutsche Oper Berlin (Schaunard in La Bohème, Le Dancaïre in Carmen, Cristiano in Un ballo in maschera, Fiorello in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Wagner in Faust), in which he was a Stipendiat in the 2017/18 season.
Dean has also been a featured artist with many of New England’s premier opera companies including Opera North, Opera Theater of Connecticut, Salt Marsh Opera, Opera Connecticut, Connecticut Lyric Opera, and Yale Opera, for which he performed roles like Figaro, Guglielmo, Papageno, Belcore, Marcello or Danilo, among others.
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