Richard Croft
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American tenor Richard Croft is internationally renowned for his performances with leading opera companies and orchestras around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, The Salzburg Festival, Opera National de Paris, the Berlin Staatsoper, Opera Zurich, Glyndebourne Festival, The Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and The New York Philharmonic. His clarion voice, superlative musicianship and commanding stage presence allow him to pursue a wide breadth of repertoire from Handel and Mozart to the music of today’s composers.
After reprising his acclaimed performance as the knight Ubaldo in Haydn’s Armida at the 2009 Salzburg Festival, Richard Croft begins the 2009/2010 season with his much-anticipated debut at La Scala in the title role of Idomeneo under the baton of Myung-Whun Chung, in a production by Luc Bondy. He takes on the role of Jupiter in a David McVicar production of Handel’s Semele at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, conducted by Christophe Rousset, and reprises Idomeneo as the centerpiece of the Mozarteum’s Mozartwoche in Salzburg. The American tenor also joins frequent collaborator Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre in a special concert for President Sarkozy and invited French dignitaries to celebrate the reopening of the newly refurbished Palace of Versailles.
In 2008 Mr. Croft made a triumphant return to the Metropolitan Opera as M.K. Gandhi in a critically acclaimed new production of Philip Glass’s landmark 1980 opera Satyagraha, for which The New York Times heralded his "heroic performance" and "aching poignancy" (Tommasini). Other highlights of recent seasons include Idomeneo with Rene Jacobs and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (also recorded for Harmonia Mundi) and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival with Marc Minkowski (also filmed for television); Handel’s Ariodante with the San Francisco Opera; Beethoven’s Mass in C with Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony; the role of Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Seattle Opera; and Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte at the University of North Texas, where he has been Professor of Voice since 2004.
For more information, please visit www.richardcroft.net.
