biography
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Terfel, Bryn
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originally Bryn Terfel Jones
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pronunciation:
[tervel, brin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1965– )
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| biography:
| Bass baritone, born in Pant-glas, Caernarfonshire, Wales, UK. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and became popularly known after winning the Lieder Prize in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1989. He has since appeared at many of the world's leading opera houses, his roles including Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival (1994–6), Figaro at the New York Metropolitan Opera (1994), Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress at the Welsh National Opera (1996), and the title roles in Don Giovanni (2002) and Falstaff (2003) at Covent Garden, London. In 1993 he received the Newcomer of the Year International Classic Music Award. |
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