Biography
Tenor
Paul Appleby
This season Paul Appleby debuts at La Monnaie in the world premiere of Bernard Foccroulle and Matthew Jocelyn’s Cassandra, debuts at Gran Teatre del Liceu in the European premiere of John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra, and returns to Glyndebourne to sing Tamino in Die Zauberflöte. Igor Stravinsky features prominently in his season: in addition to Les Noces, he appears in Pulcinella with the Toronto Symphony and Oedipus rex with the Munich Philharmonic. Last season Mr. Appleby gave the world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra at San Francisco Opera, reprised the title role of Bernstein’s Candide for the Opéra de Lyon, and returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Adams’s Girls of the Golden West under the baton of the composer. He also appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Music of the Baroque, and Chicago Symphony at Ravinia. He makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with these performances.
A leading artist of the Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Appleby has sung in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Rodelinda, the title role of Pelléas et Mélisande, The Rake’s Progress, the North American premiere of Nico Muhly’s Two Boys. He has has also performed the leading tenor roles of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Met.
Mr. Appleby’s recording catalogue includes Muhly’s Two Boys, recorded live by the Met and released by Nonesuch, and DVDs of Glyndebourne’s presentation of Handel’s Saul and Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict released commercially by Opus Arte. He is a founding core member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) and is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
A leading artist of the Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Appleby has sung in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Rodelinda, the title role of Pelléas et Mélisande, The Rake’s Progress, the North American premiere of Nico Muhly’s Two Boys. He has has also performed the leading tenor roles of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Met.
Mr. Appleby’s recording catalogue includes Muhly’s Two Boys, recorded live by the Met and released by Nonesuch, and DVDs of Glyndebourne’s presentation of Handel’s Saul and Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict released commercially by Opus Arte. He is a founding core member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) and is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
