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Thomas Meglioranza |
American baritone Thomas Meglioranza is equally at home in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi and Schubert to Babbitt and Gershwin. A winner of the 2005 Walter W. Naumburg Competition, Mr. Meglioranza makes his Wigmore Hall recital début this summer in a program of contemporary American songs, as well as his Boston Symphony Orchestra début in John Harbison's new Fifth Symphony under the baton of James Levine at Tanglewood.
Active in the world of opera, Mr. Meglioranza recently portrayed Prior Walter in the North American premiere of Peter Eötvös' Angels in America with Opera Boston. Other opera performances include the title role in Don Giovanni with Julius Rudel and the Aspen Opera Theatre and Chou En-lai in Nixon in China with Opera Boston. Mr. Meglioranza’s recent recitals include an all-contemporary American song program at Symphony Space, Schoenberg and his American Pupils at the Neue Galerie, Austrian Exiles at the Austrian Cultural Forum, and a program of British Music Hall songs at the Bard Music Festival.
Mr. Meglioranza performs frequently with orchestras and baroque ensembles around the country, including the Houston, Oregon, Grant Park, and National Symphonies, Orpheus, Philharmonia Baroque, Portland Baroque, Apollo’s Fire, American Bach Soloists, Music of the Baroque, and the New York Collegium. Known for his illuminating performances of modern music, he has sung the music of Babbitt with the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble, works of Schulhoff at the Ravinia Festival with James Conlon, John Adams’ Wound Dresser at Tanglewood, and regularly premieres new works written for his voice. A graduate of Grinnell College and the Eastman School of Music, Mr. Meglioranza is also an alumnus of Tanglewood, Aspen, Marlboro, Bowdoin, the Pacific Music Festival and the Steans Insititute at Ravinia.
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