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Joshua Benevento
By admin | January 12, 2011
Joshua Benevento most recently made his Metropolitan opera debut singing in the highly anticipated new production of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. Dedication leads Mr. Benevento into a ‘12/13 Metropolitan Opera season including performances of Götterdämmerung, Turandot, Les Troyens, and Parsifal. The Liederkranz Foundation Competition resulted with him as a finalist in the Opera Division, as well as a first place winner in the Lieder Division. The prestigious Mario Lanza Competition also culminated with a successful first place.
Mr. Benevento sung leading roles in numerous operas including Pagliacci, Die Fledermaus, il Barbiere di Sivilia, Richard Coeur de Lion, Aida, Gianni Schicchi, Die Zauberflöte, Turandot, Carmen, L’incoronazione di Poppea, The Merry Widow, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Hänsel und Gretel at various companies, among which are The Metropolitan Opera, American Classical Orchestra, New Jersey Verismo Opera, New Rochelle Opera, Purchase Opera, Opera 691, and the State Repertory Opera New Jersey.
The New York premiere of Lee Hoiby’s brilliant opera, The Tempest, included Mr. Benevento performing the challenging and exquisite role of Caliban, which he later interpreted on a recording recently released by Albany Records to rave reviews by three of the major reviewers of recorded works. He also created the role of the Uncle in the highly acclaimed recent world premiere production of Raphaël Lucas’s Confession, another opera he recorded with Albany Records. Expanding from the operatic stage, his work also includes, as a soloist, orchestra performances of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Handel’s The Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Carissimi’s Jephte and Mozart’s Requiem. The beginnings of his professional career were established with a singing role in the HBO Series, The Sopranos.
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