Paul Appleby (tenor)

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Paul Appleby
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Appleby outside the Metropolitan Opera, May 2015
BornJune 29, 1983 (1983-06-29) (age 39)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
OccupationOpera singer (tenor)
Website paulapplebytenor.com

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]

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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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References

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  2. Sean Martinfield (November 11, 2015). "In Conversation with Tenor Paul Appleby – A Smart Debut at San Francisco Opera". The Huffington Post .
  3. "Abduction from the Seraglio Marks Levine's Final Performance as Music Director", WQXR, 6 May 2016
  4. "Tenor takes 'mix tape' approach to opera recital at Notre Dame's DeBartolo". South Bend Tribune . March 17, 2016. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
  5. "Leonore Annenberg Fellowship".
  6. Gerda Lissner Foundation, 2012 Prize Winners
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  8. "Review: Muhly: Two Boys", Opera News , January 2015.
  9. Paul Appleby, Metropolitan Opera
  10. "Who Matters Now: A Baker's Dozen of the Season's Rising Stars" by Robert J. Hughes, The New York Observer , 8 March 2011
  11. "Review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", Opera News (New York), December 2, 2014
  12. "San Diego Opera presents an excellent Don Giovanni", Opera Today (Omaha, Nebraska), February 24, 2015
  13. "Boston Lyric Opera’s Così fan tutte is delightful", The Boston Globe , March 19, 2013
  14. "Saul review – virtuoso, ravishing, one of Glyndebourne's finest shows", The Guardian (London, UK), August 2015.
  15. "A Midsummer Photo Diary" Archived January 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , Wolf Trap (Vienna, Virginia), August 2010.
  16. "Review: The Rake's Progress Makes a Brief Visit at the Metropolitan Opera" by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times , May 4, 2015
  17. Nonesuch Records Official Website, "Two Boys, Metropolitan Opera", Nonesuch Records, May 12, 2015
  18. Delos Productions Official Website, "Dear Theo, Ben Moore", Delos Productions, 2014
  19. iTunes, "The Juilliard Sessions: Paul Appleby; Schubert and Britten Songs, EMI Classics"
  20. New York Philharmonic Official Website, "Mozart: Mass in C minor & Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major, K. 482", New York Philharmonic
  21. The Metropolitan Opera, "The Enchanted Island: Metropolitan Opera Live in HD, Virgin Classics"