Paul Appleby | |
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Born | June 29, 1983 39) Chicago, Illinois, USA | (age
Occupation | Opera singer (tenor) |
Website | paulapplebytenor |
Paul Appleby (born June 29, 1983) is an American operatic tenor. [1] In 2009 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. In November 2015 he made his debut at the San Francisco Opera as Tamino in Mozart's The Magic Flute . [2] In December 2015 he was the tenor soloist in Mozart's Coronation Mass with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and in January 2016 he performed Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. He sang Belmonte again at the Metropolitan Opera in May 2016. [3]
Appleby is a graduate of St. Joseph High School (South Bend, Indiana), and the University of Notre Dame. [4]
Appleby graduated from the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and received the 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts.
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