03/18/2023
The sensational heldentenor, Brended Gunnell resume. The singer for whom Gilded was composed - has an impressive resume:
The much sought-a.er Heldentenor Brenden Gunnell is renowned in opera and in concert. Born in the USA has gained an international reputation for his clarion and carefully nuanced tone, effortless upper tessitura, clear articulation, and intense acting style.
Core roles of his opera repertoire include the title roles in Peter Grimes, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Idomeneo, Oedipus Rex and der Zwerg as well as Siegmund in die Walküre, Laça in Jenufa, Prinç in Rusalka, Sergei in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Erik in der Fliegende Holländer and Loge in das Rheingold.
The pivotal work of his concert repertoire is Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius (debut with Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Jeffrey Tate at Laeiszhalle Hamburg, with BBC Symphony Orchestra at King's College Cambridge, with Dortmund Philharmoniker, and at Bremen Glocke, Domkirke Oslo, as well as Rheingau Musik FesEval at Kloster Eberbach). Further core works include Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony, Bri\en's War Requiem and his works for tenor and chamber orchestra, Maler's Das Lied Von Der Erde, Das Klagende Lied, and Eighth Symphony (Symphony Orchestra of Milan Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Teatro del Maggio Musicale FiorenEno, conducted by Fabio Luisi; Dortmunder Philharmoniker: Dreyer Gaido Label recording, conducted by Gabriel Feltz), Frank Martin's Golgotha, Franz Schmidt's Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln, Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, and Verdi's Messa Di Requiem.
Brenden Gunnell is an ensemble member of Oper Leipzig from the 2022/2023 season onwards. Here he is singing such roles as Herod in Salome and the title role in a new production of Peter Grimes.
A.er successfully completing his professional studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 2006, Brenden Gunnell was a member of the ensemble at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck from 2007 to 2011, under artistic director KS Brigitte Fassbaender, and from 2011 to 2013 a member of the ensemble at the Den Norsk Opera and Ballet.
Brenden Gunnell has worked closely with the conductors Sir Jeffrey Tate†, Ricardo Chailly, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Gar, Fabio Luisi, Juraj Valčuha, Ivor Bolton, Evan Rogister, Alpesh Chauhan, Jukka- Pekka Saraste, Jaap van Zweden, Steuart Bedford†, and Hartmut Haenchen as well as with stage directors Sir Graham Vick†, KS Brigitte Fassbaender, Stephen Langridge, Thaddeus Strassberger, Christoph Marthaler, François Girard, Paul Curran, William Kentridge, and Sir David McVicar.
