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The 2024/25 season marks an exciting new chapter for Theodore Platt as he joins the ensemble of the Copenhagen Opera House, marking a significant milestone in his career. In this capacity, he takes on several important roles, showcasing his versatility as a baritone across different operatic styles. These include his role debut as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Lord Cecil in Maria Stuarda, and his role debut as the titular character Figaro in Gioachino Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. Platt’s concert season includes an appearance with the Eppaner Liedsommer classical music festival in South Tyrol, Italy, where he gives a recital alongside pianist Keval Shah. Under the baton of Roberto Gonzales-Monjas, Theodore Platt presents Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg.
A special highlight of the coming season is the release of his Deutsche Grammophon STAGE+ online recital, featuring work by Jean Sibelius, Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and Benjamin Britten, once again in collaboration with Keval Shah.
Theodore Platt was featured on Jonathan Tetelman’s acclaimed Deutsche Grammophon Album “The Great Puccini” presenting the role of Marcello in excerpts from La bohème. With the Culiner Creative Circle, Platt and Keval Shah produced audio-visual interpretations of Jean Sibelius’ “Var det en Dröm?” and Samuel Barber’s “O boundless, boundless evening” for online release via various streaming platforms.
A sought-after concert singer, the baritone made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2019 as part of Graham Johnson’s Songmakers’ recital series. In 2021, he performed at the Oxford Lieder Festival and at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. In 2018-19, Theodore Platt participated in the inaugural French Song Exchange at Wigmore Hall, working closely with Felicity Lott and François Le Rouxand culminating in recitals in London and Paris. In 2022, he returned to Wigmore for a recital alongside Malcolm Martineau.
Platt is the grateful recipient of prizes from the 64th Kathleen Ferrier Awards, the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, Copenhagen Lied Duo Competition, Lies Askonas Competition, Joan Chissell Schumann Competition. Further, he was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod at Verbier Festival. In 2022, Theodore Platt and Keval Shah won the first prize at the 13th International Art Song Competition Stuttgart. The duo performed works by Franz Schubert, Vivian Fung, Hugo Wolf, Frank Bridge, and Benjamin Britten.
London-born Platt studied Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, and is an alumnus of the Verbier Festival Academy and the Royal College of Music Opera Studio. He attended the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (IMA), which was followed by engagements with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and a Schubert recital including a broadcast on BR-Klassik.
Baritone Yeongtaek Yang is in his first year with the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. In the Met’s 2024/25 season, he made his company debut as Marullo (Rigoletto) and appeared as the Second Nazarene (Salome). Recent engagements include covering Giorgio Germont (La Traviata) and the title role in Don Giovanni at Santa Fe Opera, and performing Gianni Schicchi at the Chautauqua Institution. His previous roles include the Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Des Grieux (Le Portrait de Manon) at the Manhattan School of Music, as well as Don Giovanni at Seoul National University. Yeongtaek won First Prize in both the 2023 Opera Index Competition and the 2024 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, and Second Prize in the 2024 Zachary Competition in Los Angeles. He holds degrees from Seoul National University and the Manhattan School of Music.
Russian baritone Anton Beliaev graduated with honours from the Tchaikovsky College in Yekaterinburg in 2020, where he studied with Valery Gurevich. That same year, he began his bachelor’s studies with Michail Lanskoi at Berlin’s Hanns Eisler School of Music. He has portrayed the Traveller (Curlew River), Marcello (La Bohème), Ramiro (L’Heure Espagnole), and Miller (Luisa Miller). In 2023, he won third prize as Best Male Singer at the CLIP International Singing Competition in Portofino. The following summer, he joined the International Meistersinger Academy in Neumarkt. Since the 2023/24 season, Anton has been a member of the Opera Studio at the Semperoper Dresden while completing a master’s degree at Hanns Eisler. Stage credits include Nardo in La Finta Giardiniera (Theater an der Wien), roles in the world premieres of D/Faced and Haut (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Eugene Onegin (Ekaterinburg), and appearances in Basel, Bregenz and Glyndebourne. He also performs with Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg.
Baritone Lewei Wang, a native of Beijing, is currently in his third year as an undergraduate student at The Juilliard School, studying under Cynthia Hoffmann. Lewei has displayed his talent in various roles, including the Notary and the Chief of Police in Juilliard’s production of Gianni Schicchi and Amelia al Ballo. He has also been featured as a soloist with iSING and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Lewei recently made his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in the Chinese Young Artists Showcase Concert on October 8, 2023. This season, he has taken on the roles of the Narrator and Buff in Juilliard’s productions of I Due Timidi and Der Schauspieldirektor.
Baritone Redmond Sanders studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama as a postgraduate under the tutelage of Susan Waters and generously supported by the Robert Easton scholarship. Redmond graduated from the Royal College of Music as a Rhoddy-Voremburg scholar in 2023. Roles during his time at the Royal College of Music include 2nd Armed Man in Mozart’s The Magic Flute in 2021, John Styx in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld in 2022 and Il Boscaiuolo from Respighi’s La Bella Dormente nel Bosco in 2023 with covers of L’Horoge Comtoise and Le Chat in Ravel’s L’enfant et Les Sortilèges. Redmond has also performed oratorio works, recently singing the baritone solo from Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony at the Royal College of Music and shortly after in St Asaph’s Cathedral (Wales).
South Korea-born baritone Minki Hong is a Master’s Diploma student at The Juilliard School, where he studies with Kevin Short. He previously graduated from Seoul National University with a bachelor’s degree in 2022. While pursuing his studies in South Korea, Minki was honoured with a Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation scholarship. He has also been awarded in both the Song and Aria division of the Gerda Lissner Competition and, earlier this year, won the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Florida District and Third Prize in the South-East Region. Minki made his debut as Marco and as a cover of Gianni Schicchi in Gianni Schicchi at The Juilliard School. He also sang Masetto in Don Giovanni with Camerata Bardi International Academy. Starting this August, he continues his studies at Juilliard as an Artist Diploma student.
After beginning his studies in 1957 with Mario Bigazzi and later working with Giuseppe Marchesi, Leo Nucci won several singing competitions in 1965 and 1966. In 1967, he won the A Belli competition at Spoleto after having made his debut as Rossini’s Figaro. In Milan, while singing in the La Scala chorus, Nucci studied the title role in Rigoletto with maestro Ottaviano Bizzarri and, in 1973, won the Concorso Internazionale Viotti di Vercelli. Nucci appeared at La Scala as Rossini’s Figaro in 1976, the first entry on a long list of leading roles he would sing there. At Covent Garden in 1978, he was called upon to substitute for an ailing colleague as Miller in Verdi’s Luisa Miller, a performance that resulted in re-engagement at Renato (Anckarström) in Un Ballo in Maschera. In 1979, Nucci made his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper as Figaro. Renato served as the agent of his debut at the Metropolitan Opera on February 23, 1980, and again for Paris in 1981 and Salzburg in 1989. Since his debut at the Met, Nucci has sung many of the Verdi roles there. In addition, he has appeared in both San Francisco and Chicago. Nucci has frequently appeared at La Scala, participating in several productions surrounding the centenary of Verdi’s death. For a production of La Forza del Destino, he sang after a short recuperation from a serious ailment. His activities in the recording studio have resulted in a half-dozen Grammys for Best Opera Recording. Nucci has recorded all the major Verdi baritone roles, some of them more than once, all with leading conductors; the list includes Abbado, Bartoletti, Chailly, Giulini, Karajan, Levine, Maazel, Mehta, Muti, and Solti.
Bo Skovhus studied at the Aarhus Music Institute, the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen and in New York. Significant engagements in his career were Reimann’s »Lear« at the Paris Opera, and Beckmesser in »Meistersinger« at the Bastille and at the Wagner Festival in Budapest. In addition, Titus in »Bérénice« by Michael Jarrell at the Paris Opera under the direction of Philippe Jordan, as well as in Dresden in the role of Mandryka in »Arabella«. He also sang the title role in »Wozzeck« at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Dr. Schön in »Lulu« at the Vienna State Opera, followed by Šiškov in “From a House of the Dead” at the Bavarian State Opera, Jean-Charles in “The Raft of the Medusa” (Werner Henze) in Amsterdam, and the title roles in “Karl V.” (Ernst Krenek) at the Bavarian State Opera, »Lear« at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and »Eugen Onegin« at the Hamburg State Opera. He recently performed as Ryuji in Henze’s “Das Verratene Meer” at Vienna State Opera, Hamburg State Opera as Eisenstein/FLEDERMAUS, Hamburg State Opera Berlin as Jaroslav Prus / VEC MAKROPULOS, in Boston and at Carnegie Hall in concert as WOZZECK, at the Cuvilliestheater in Munich as Father) / BLUTHAUS, and as Plato Kusmitsch Kovalev / DIE NASE at Semper Opera Dresden. In addition to appearances in operas, Bo Skovhus devotes himself to recital and concert singing with great personal commitment. Future engagements include Jochanaan/SALOME in Lübek, FLEDERMAUS in Genoa, Jaroslav Prus/VEC MAKORPULOS in Berlin, Father/BLUTHAUS in Lyon, Mandryka/SALOME in Dresden, Dr. Schön/LULU in Vienna and in Florence, Faninal/ROSENKAVALIER in Geneva, LEAR in Madrid, LEBEN MIT EINEM IDIOTEN (Alfred Schnittke) in Zürich; THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON in Hamburg. The artist has been awarded the title of “Österreichischer Kammersänger” as well as the title of “Bayerischer Kammersänger”.
Sam Hird studies at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London for a Master of Performance with baritone Peter Savidge. Recent engagements include baritone soloist in a special RCM concert to celebrate the life of composer Joseph Horovitz, L’Ambasciatore in Respighi’s opera La Bella Dormente nel Bosco, and Jesus in Bach’s St John Passion with Milton Keynes Chorale. Previous experience includes baritone solo in Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony conducted by Jonathan Willcocks, London Song Festival masterclass with Sir Thomas Allen, a Winter’s Night Recital of songs by Schubert, Britten and Fauré for baritone and guitar at All Saint’s Church (York), and baritone solo in Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestra of St John’s at Dorchester Abbey conducted by John Lubbock. Sam is a Richard Silver Scholar and is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust.
Felix is a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House. Next season he will be appearing in several productions at the Zurich Opera House, most notably as Phileas Fogg in the world premiere of Around the World in 80 Days by Jonathan Dove.
Felix is a Samling Artist and a National Opera Studio Young Artist 2022/23. He received his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
He was a member of the Atelier Lyrique of the Verbier Festival 2023, where he was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod for the most promising singer. In January 2024, he participated in the Carnegie Hall SongStudio under the patronage of Renée Fleming.
Felix is a passionate Lieder singer and regularly performs in recitals in the UK, France, and Switzerland with pianists JongSun Woo and Tomasz Domanski. He made his US debut performing Schubert’s Winterreise with pianist Pierre-Nicolas Colombat at the Boston Text and Tone Festival.