Willard White
Sir Willard Wentworth White is a singer of opera British, born with Kingston in Jamaica the October 10th 1946.
It off begins its studies of music at the Music school of continuous Jamaica then to the Juilliard School Music of New York. It begins its career with the New York City Opera in 1974. It is Baritone-low but holds sometimes the role of low, as in the Requiem of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or in Porgy and Bess of Georges Gershwin for example.
Partial repertory
The repertory of Willard White extends mainly from the Baroque to the Modern music, including/understanding world creations.
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El Nino (John Adams, for world creation with the Theater of Châtelet),
- the castle of bore-blue (Béla Bartók),
- Damnation of Faust (Hector Berlioz),
- Pelléas and Mélisande (Claude Debussy),
- Porgy and Bess (Georges Gershwin, it incarnated Porgy),
- Faust (Charles Gounod, it incarnated Méphistophélès),
- Messiah (Georg Friedrich Haendel),
- large macabre the (György Ligeti), in which it incarnates Nekrotzar.
- Greek Passion (Bohuslav Martinu),
- Holy François d' Assise (Olivier Messiaen, role titrates),
- Requiem (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart),
- Elijah (Felix Mendelssohn),
- Love of the three oranges (Sergueï Prokofiev),
- The Rake' S Progress and Oedipus Rex (Igor Stravinski),
- the tetralogy (Richard Wagner, where it incarnates Wotan)…
He sang with the full orchestras among which the royal Orchestre of Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Symphony orchestra of London, the Philharmonic orchestra of London, the Orchestre of the BBC, the Orchestre of Cleveland, the Philharmonic orchestra of Berlin, the Philharmonic orchestra of New York and the Philharmonic orchestra of Los Angeles.
He also recorded negros spirituals of which a homage to Paul Robeson ( My Way ).
External bonds
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Biography on Radio France
- Biography on “100 great black Britons”
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