American tenor William Burden has won an outstanding reputation in a wide-ranging repertoire throughout Europe and North America. He has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, New York City Opera, La Scala, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Paris Opera, Munich State Opera, Canadian Opera, and the Saito Kinen Festival. His many roles include the title roles of
Faust, Pelléas et Mélisande, Orphée et Euriydice , and
The Rake’s Progress, Roméo et Juliette, and
Béatrice and Bénédict, Edgardo in
Lucia di Lammermoor, Aschenbach in
Death in Venice, Captain Vere in
Billy Budd, Don Jose in
Carmen, and the Male Chorus in
The Rape of Lucretia. He also appeared in the US premiere of Henze’s
Phaedra at the Opera Company of Philadelphia and created roles in Tobias Picker’s
An American Tragedy at the Metropolitan Opera, Christopher Theofanidis’
Heart of a Soldier at the San Francisco Opera, Kevin Puts’ Pulitzer Prize winning
Silent Night at the Minnesota Opera, and Daron Hagen’s
Amelia at the Seattle Opera.
In concert, Mr. Burden has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and with Les Arts Florissants on tour throughout Europe. He also recently made his debut at the Edinburgh Festival. ...
read full bioAmerican tenor William Burden has won an outstanding reputation in a wide-ranging repertoire throughout Europe and North America. He has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, New York City Opera, La Scala, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Paris Opera, Munich State Opera, Canadian Opera, and the Saito Kinen Festival. His many roles include the title roles of
Faust, Pelléas et Mélisande, Orphée et Euriydice , and
The Rake’s Progress, Roméo et Juliette, and
Béatrice and Bénédict, Edgardo in
Lucia di Lammermoor, Aschenbach in
Death in Venice, Captain Vere in
Billy Budd, Don Jose in
Carmen, and the Male Chorus in
The Rape of Lucretia. He also appeared in the US premiere of Henze’s
Phaedra at the Opera Company of Philadelphia and created roles in Tobias Picker’s
An American Tragedy at the Metropolitan Opera, Christopher Theofanidis’
Heart of a Soldier at the San Francisco Opera, Kevin Puts’ Pulitzer Prize winning
Silent Night at the Minnesota Opera, and Daron Hagen’s
Amelia at the Seattle Opera.
In concert, Mr. Burden has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and with Les Arts Florissants on tour throughout Europe. He also recently made his debut at the Edinburgh Festival.
Mr. Burden’s recordings include Barber’s
Vanessa (Anatol) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra on the Chandos label and
Musique adorable: The Songs of Emmanuel Chabrier for the Hyperion label.
The season Mr. Burden returns to the Metropolitan Opera for the new production of Thomas Adès’s
The Tempest, the Opera Company of Philadelphia for
Silent Night, and the Bayerische Staatsoper for
Don Giovanni. He also appears in two world premieres: Mark Adamo’s
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene at the San Francisco Opera and Theodore Morrison’s
Oscar at the Santa Fe Opera.
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