Earlier today AfriClassical posted this news from The Dallas Opera:
"Published on Oct 30, 2012 by thedallasopera
The Dallas Opera presents soprano
Latonia Moore as Aida and baritone Lester Lynch as Amonasro in our
October 2012 production of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida."
Lester Lynch Bio
Juilliard Opera School graduate and Ohio native Lester Lynch is recognized for a voice that is
commanding, rich and vocally nuanced. A prominent Verdi baritone, he
has been praised for being “magnificently forceful,” by The New York
Times, and for demonstrating “a seamless legato from one end of his
range to the other and a facility for shaping coloratura for dramatic
effect,” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
...
An accomplished concert artist, Mr. Lynch has performed a wide
variety of repertoire with orchestras across the continent, including
the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra and Houston Symphony. He sang both Crown and Jake in Porgy
and Bess with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ravinia Festival Orchestra
with Bobby McFerrin conducting, and performed in Placido Domingo’s
Operalia concert in Santa Domingo and the Dominican Republic with Eugene
Kohn conducting. He was the soloist in Copland’s Old American Songs
with the New World Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgis Nacht
with the Grant Park Music Festival, and Bach Magnificat with the
Orchestra of St. Lukes at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Lynch performed as Don
Fernando in Fidelio with the Cincinnati Symphony under Paavo Järvi, and
sang Fauré’s Requiem with the Duluth-Superior Orchestra, Carmina Burana
with the Fox Valley Symphony and the New York Oratorio Society at
Carnegie Hall, and Elijah with the Flagstaff Symphony. In addition, he
was the soloist in Brahms’ Requiem with the Tucson Symphony, sang in the
premiere of I Build a House with the Columbia Pro Cantare, and offered
Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death with the Chautaqua Symphony. His
performance of Amonasro in Aida with the Springfield Symphony was later
broadcast on PBS.
A frequent recitalist, Mr. Lynch has toured throughout the United
States under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation, highlighted
by a performance at Merkin Hall in New York where he premiered a song
cycle by Lowell Lieberman which was commissioned for him by the
Foundation. In addition, he has offered a recital with pianist/composer
John Musto at the Morgan Library in New York, which was sponsored by
the George London Foundation.
Mr. Lynch is the recipient of many distinguished awards, including
the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the George London
Vocal Competition, and the Sullivan Awards, and his work with Opera
Theatre of Saint Louis earned him the prestigious Richard Gaddes Award.
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