Eric Owens
2012 OPERA NEWS Awards Honorees Announced
Sopranos Mirella Freni and Dawn Upshaw, countertenor David
Daniels, baritone Simon Keenlyside, and bass-baritone Eric Owens to
Receive 2012 OPERA NEWS Awards
The editors of OPERA NEWS are pleased to announce the honorees for the 2012 OPERA NEWS Awards, paying tribute to five superb artists who have made an invaluable contribution to the art form: sopranos Mirella Freni and Dawn Upshaw, countertenor David Daniels, baritone Simon Keenlyside, and bass-baritone Eric Owens. The eighth annual OPERA NEWS Awards ceremony will
take place on Sunday, April 21 at The Plaza in New York City. All the
winners — and a host of the city’s cultural, civic, and social
luminaries — will be present at the gala awards dinner, which will
feature celebrity presenters speaking about the awardees and introducing
video performance clips.
The official announcement of this year’s honorees appears in the
September 2012 issue of OPERA NEWS, which is available on August 6 and
has Piotr Beczala on the cover. The Polish tenor performs this season at
the Metropolitan Opera in Gounod’s Faust — his company role debut as the opera’s title — and in a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto.
The September issue also offers the magazine’s annual preview of the
year in opera. The April 2012 issue of OPERA NEWS will contain tributes
to the five awardees, all distinguished members of the international
opera community.
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Managing Editor Oussama Zahr extols the gifts of Mr. Owens:
“Bass-baritone Eric Owens has a soulful, capacious voice that he uses to imbue some of opera’s most mysterious and villainous characters with startling humanity. Everything he sings glows with his integrity as an artist.”
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