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Invano Alvaro (in German) - Cox & Davidson

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Uploaded by on May 15, 2007

from a live performance in German.
Don Alvaro - Jean Cox
Don Carlos - Michael Davidson

Assorted pics from Cardillac, Aida, Rigoletto, Macbeth, Otello, Andrea Chenier, Tosca, Freischuetz,Il Trovatore, Faust, Nabucco, Die Kluge and Parsifal.

Resume of Michael Davidson, baritone

Born in Long Beach, California, Michael Davidson studied voice with the Bolshoi's Verdi baritone Vladimir Dubinsky (a student of Antonio Cotogni's), while Hugo Strelitzer and Herbert Weisskopf were his coaches. Michael gave his European debut at the Concertgebouw presenting a variety of Verdi arias, later he returned there to sing the title-roles in Leoncavallo's Edipo Re (a role concipated for Titta Ruffo) and Dallapiccola's Il Prigionero. Further engagements include the Royal Opera Stockholm, National Theater Mannheim, Royal Opera Antwerp, Vancouver Opera, the Staatsopern in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart and the Gran Teatro de Liceu. Additionally the operas in Cologne, Karlsruhe, Portland, Hannover, Basel, Wuppertal, Frankfurt, Nürnberg, Dortmund and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg.
Among his stage-partners have been Luciano Pavarotti (Rigoletto), Mirella Freni (La Boheme), Raina Kabaivanska (Madama Butterfly), Lucia Popp (Der Rosenkavalier), Eva Marton (Tosca), Montserrat Caballe (Aida), Martina Arroyo (Aida), Tatjana Troyanos (Carmen), Nadine Connor (La Traviata), Maria Chiara (Otello), Anton Dermota (Palestrina), Ileana Cotrubas (Rosenkavalier), Fiorenza Cossotto (Il Trovatore), Agnes Baltsa (Rosenkavalier), Diana Damrau (Hänsel und Gretel, Rigoletto, Der Freischütz) and Waltraud Meier (Cardillac, Carmen, Il Trovatore, Der Rosenkavalier, Rigoletto). Michael Davidson has appeared in concerts with Mario del Monaco, Erika Köth and Renee Kollo and with such conductors as Giuseppe Patane, Alberto Erede, Kees Bakels, Hans Wallat, Horst Stein, Donald Runnicles and Nello Santi. Mr. Davidson also performed the King in Die Kluge under the direction of the composer Carl Orff. For his artistic accomplishments he has been awarded the title of Kammersänger. Michael Davidson retired from the stage in 1999 as Tonio (I Pagliacci), over 40 years after his debut. His son Robert is now an aspiring young baritone.

Throughout his career Mr. Davidson's repertoire has had a particular focus on the works of Giuseppe Verdi, singing the lead baritone roles in Otello, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino, Il Trovatore, Luisa Miller, La Traviata, Falstaff, Aida, Attila, Don Carlo and I Masnadieri and the title-roles of Rigoletto, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra, and Nabucco.

He however also frequently portrayed such roles as the four demons (Les Contes D'Hoffmann), Scarpia (Tosca), Michele (Il Tabarro), Rance (La Fanciulla del West), Marcello (La Boheme), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Tonio (I Pagliacci), Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana), Barnaba (La Gioconda), Escamillo (Carmen), Amfortas (Parsifal), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier), the High Priest of Dagon (Samson e Dalilah), Valentin (Faust), Dunois (Joan of Arc), Gerard (Andrea Chenier), Sebastiano (Tiefland), the count in Capriccio as well as the title-roles in Gianni Schicci, Edipo Re, Eugene Onegin, Guglielmo Tell and Cardillac.

To purchase a complete recording of Edipo Re live from the Concertgebouw Amsterdam please follow this link:
http://www.opera-club.net/release.asp?rel=75

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  • diese aufnahme versetzt mich in meine jugend in mannheim zurück, als ich die beiden sänger oft bewundern konnte. den grössten eindruck hat mir davidsons scarpia hinterlassen.

  • Vielen Dank fuer die freundlichen Worte. Mein Vater hat sich sehr ueber ihr Kompliment gefreut !

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  • Those names bring back great memories for me too. What an ensemble! What wonderful work these artists did. I'm deeply grateful to them all

  • Fuer mich ist Oper mehr als nur Gesang. Es geht um Menschen, die mit allem, was sie menschlich macht eine dramatische Geschichte glaubhaft vermitteln muessen. Gesangliche oder Diktionsperfektion sind nur ein Teil. Ich will etwas Authentisches erleben, das mich mitreisst. Ich habe Michael Davidson sehr oft auf der Buehne erleben duerfen. Es war immer ein packendes Erlebnis.

  • also ich als deutscher ich verstehe gar nix bei dem bariton ... und ich singe selber ... und so gut, dass nur wneige baritöne ihm stand hielten ?? naja ich glaube es nicht.

  • i'm a pianist/conductor/composer in the boston area, with grandparents who lived in mannheim during the "steinzeit" and the wallat era - i cannot tell you how much i learned about opera as an ensemble art form from the many evenings at the nationaltheater - and with what extraordinary pleasure i remember the many molnar/schreiner/tamassy/schwe­nniger/cox/davidson/völker/maz­ura etc etc performances - i understood what the word sängerschauspieler really means - boundless gratitude to them all

  • Ich kann nur zustimmen. Auch ich verdanke Michael Davidson wundervolle musikalische Erlebnisse in Mannheim. Ein großartiger Bariton und aussergewöhnlicher Mensch.

  • Auch mich versetzt diese Aufnahme in meine Jungend in Mannheim. Michael Davidson ist mein liebster italienischer Bariton aller Zeiten. Hochmusikalisch und darstellerisch immer packend. Alle nachfolgenden Jagos, Rigolettos und Scarpias habe ich mit ihm verglichen. Und wenige hielten dem Vergleich Stand. Ein Vollblut-Sänger-Darsteller!

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