JOSEPH KAISER

Starring as Tamino in the Kenneth Branagh film adaptation of The Magic Flute, conducted by James Conlon and released in 2007, Joseph Kaiser is recognized by audiences for his beauty of tone, intelligence of programming, and innate sense of style and elegance.  He is internationally acclaimed as one of the most gifted artists of his generation and enjoys success in opera, oratorio, and concert throughout North America and Europe.

The present season sees Joseph Kaiser making his debut at the Opéra National de Paris as Lensky in Eugene Onegin in a Willy Decker production conducted by Vasily Petrenko; returning to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden singing the role of Prince Tamino in Die Zauberflöte directed by David McVicar and conducted by Sir Colin Davis; appearing at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Steva Burja in Jenůfa in the acclaimed Barbara Frey production conducted by Tomáš Hanus; at the Munich Festival as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni conducted by Constantinos Carydis; and bowing at the Metropolitan Opera as Flamand in Capriccio – opposite Renée Fleming - in a production by John Cox under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis.  Concert highlights include performances of Liszt’s Faust-Symphonie with Sir André Previn and the Gewandhausorchester, Bruckner’s Te Deum with Daniel Barenboim and the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, and Bruckner’s Mass No. 3 in f minor conducted by Marek Janowski with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

During the 2009-10 season, Mr. Kaiser made three role debuts: the title role of Faust at the Lyric Opera of Chicago conducted by Sir Andrew Davis; the title role of Messager’s Fortunio in a new production by Denis Podalydès at the Opéra Comique under the baton of Louis Langrée; and Admète in Gluck’s Alceste at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in a new production by Christoph Loy conducted by Ivor Bolton.  The artist gave performances of  Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Ivor Bolton and the Wiener Symphoniker at Vienna’s Konzerthaus and of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Roberto Abbado and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.  A committed recitalist, Mr. Kaiser returned to the New York Festival of Song in a collaboration with Steven Blier exploring the songs of Korngold, Medtner, Strauss, and Szymonowski.

Highlights of recent seasons include a Los Angeles Opera debut as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte under the baton of James Conlon, new productions at the Salzburg Festival of Handel’s Theodora directed by Christoph Loy and conducted by Ivor Bolton as well as of Eugene Onegin directed by Andrea Breth and conducted by Daniel Barenboim, a Covent Garden debut as Narraboth in a new David McVicar production of Salome, under Philippe Jordan’s baton (commercially available on Opus Arte DVD), and the North American premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater at the Santa Fe Opera in a production by Peter Sellars. 

Mr. Kaiser has bowed at the Metropolitan Opera in a diverse array of leading parts including the title role of Roméo et Juliette – opposite Anna Netrebko - under the baton of Plácido Domingo, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte conducted by Kirill Petrenko, and as Narraboth in Salome – opposite Karita Mattila – conducted by Patrick Summers and seen internationally on The Met: Live in HD experience.

Joseph Kaiser joined the prestigious Ryan Opera Center in the spring of 2004 and, during his residency with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, was involved in productions of The Midsummer Marriage, Fidelio, Aida, and Das Rheingold, singing under the batons of Sir Andrew Davis and Christoph von Dohnányi.  As a principal artist with the company, he has bowed in the title roles of Roméo et Juliette and Faust as well as in Die Fledermaus, Salome, and Dialogues des Carmélites with Sir Andrew Davis.

His dynamic concert schedule has included performances of the Berlioz Requiem under Marek Janowski with the combined forces of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande as well as with Donald Runnicles both with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Berliner Philharmoniker, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Christoph von Dohnányi and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and with Christoph Eschenbach and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with Sir Simon Rattle and the Philadelphia Orchestra (at the Kimmel Center and at Carnegie Hall), and a European concert tour with soprano Annette Dasch and Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern under the direction of Christoph Poppen.

Mr. Kaiser has appeared at the Caramoor Festival, in a joint program with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, which was presented under the auspices of the New York Festival of Song (commercially available on the Bridge Records label), in Chicago at the Chicago Humanities Festival, in Montreal with the André Turp Society, and on the Debut Series of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.  He joined a roster of emerging artists on a special gala program hosted by Renée Fleming and Sherrill Milnes, under the auspices of the George London Foundation and, as the Song Prize winner of the Julian Autrey Foundation, offered his New York solo recital debut, both at Weill Hall.

A prize winner in the 2005 Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition, Joseph Kaiser also was recognized with the Robert Jacobson Memorial Grant by the George London Foundation,  first prizes at the Elardo Opera Competition and Orlando Opera Heinz Rehfuss Singing Actor Award, and numerous scholarships at McGill University.

 

 

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