Renato Mismetti (born 1960, Cajuru, SP, Brazil) is an Italian-Brazilian baritone.
He has lived and worked in Germany since 1991. He has various attributes in stage performance: concert singer, opera singer, reciter and actor. In the theater, he played the part of Estragon in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett; recited the monologue "A Terceira Margem do Rio" based on the text by João Guimarães Rosa and, as a reciter, together with the Japanese organist Aya Yoshida, presented the work "Alice au pays de l'orgue" by Jean Guillou for narrator and organ. However, his work emphasizes the interpretation of art songs.
Violeta Dinescu, Marlos Nobre, Kilza Setti, Renato Mismetti, Maximiliano de Brito – Theatre at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.
Renato Mismetti has worked diligently in divulging Brazilian music overseas and, because of this the press has frequently referred to him as the ambassador of Brazilian culture. He was classified as one of the supreme interpreters of Brazilian art song by the magazine New Yorker Music Review.
Mismetti's interest in working together with composers became evident early on, during his university studies when he prepared songs by Camargo Guarnieri together with the composer, who, in turn, later on watched the performance of the baritone in the title-role in his opera "Pedro Malazarte", classifying it as brilliant and saying that Renato Mismetti was the best Malazarte he had ever seen.
In 2001, in a public letter, the Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, publicly welcomed the two Brazilian musicians when they presented a recital at the Berlin Konzerthaus. In 2004, the Mayor of Bremen, Henning Scherf, repeated this act when the concert "Disenchanted Amazon" was presented in the Bremen Municipal Government Palace. In the German edition of Wikipedia, Renato Mismetti appears in the list of famous classical music singers.
Recently, based on the famous text by Antônio Castro Alves, "Navio Negreiro", the composer Siegrid Ernst, wrote "Memento" in which Renato Mismetti and Maximiliano de Brito, together with other musicians gave the first world performance with huge success.
Mismetti also develops great interdisciplinary projects involving various art aspects and fields. In recognition of his cultural exchange activities covering various countries, the Apollon Foundation of Bremen, Germany, was included as an associate member of UNESCO's IMC – International Music Council.
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known South American composer of all time. A prolific composer, he wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2,000 works by his death in 1959. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas Brasileiras and his Chôros. His Etudes for classical guitar (1929) were dedicated to Andrés Segovia, while his 5 Preludes (1940) were dedicated to his spouse Arminda Neves d'Almeida, a.k.a. "Mindinha". Both are important works in the classical guitar repertory.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous Lieder performers of the post-war period, best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, particularly "Winterreise" of which his recordings with accompanists Gerald Moore and Jörg Demus are still critically acclaimed half a century after their release.
Hermann Prey was a German lyric baritone, who was equally at home in the Lied, operatic and concert repertoires. His American debut was in November 1952, with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy, and his American recital debut took place in 1956, at New York's Carnegie Hall. As a Lieder singer, he was a gifted interpreter of Schubert, including his song-cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Die Winterreise and the collection of songs Schwanengesang, as well as of Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. He also appeared frequently as a soloist in Bach's Passions and Brahms' A German Requiem.
An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition. By extension, the term "art song" is used to refer to the collective genre of such songs. An art song is most often a musical setting of an independent poem or text, "intended for the concert repertory" "as part of a recital or other relatively formal social occasion". While many pieces of vocal music are easily recognized as art songs, others are more difficult to categorize. For example, a wordless vocalise written by a classical composer is sometimes considered an art song and sometimes not.
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Barry McDaniel was an American operatic baritone who spent his career almost exclusively in Germany, including 37 years at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He appeared internationally at major opera houses and festivals, and created roles in several new operas, including Henze's Der junge Lord, Nabokov's Love's Labour's Lost, and Reimann's Melusine. He was also a celebrated concert singer and recitalist, focused on German Lied and French mélodie. He was the first singer of Wilhelm Killmayer's song cycle Tre Canti di Leopardi. He recorded both operatic and concert repertory.
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Daniel Behle is a German classical composer and operatic tenor. He has performed at international opera houses and festivals, and has recorded both operas and Lieder recitals.
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Kwangchul Youn is a South Korean operatic bass and academic voice teacher. He made an international career based in Germany, from 1994 to 2004 at the Berlin State Opera. He has performed leading roles at international opera houses and festivals, such as Gurnemanz in Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival, Mephisto in Faust at the Vienna State Opera, and King Marke in Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera.
Benjamin Appl is a German-British lyric baritone, a classical singer who has appeared world-wide in opera houses and concert halls, particularly known as a Lieder singer.
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