David Cangelosi has firmly
established himself as an artist who combines both
excellent singing and winning characterizations.
In 2004, Mr. Cangelosi made his Metropolitan
Opera debut as Mime in
Das Rheingold,
conducted by James Levine and returned in recent
seasons for performances of Incredibile in
Andrea
Chenier and Tinca in
Il Tabarro.
Other roles at the Metropolitan Opera include
Basilio (Marriage
of Figaro), Goro (Madame
Butterfly), and Spoletta (Tosca).
Mr. Cangelosi’s recent
performances include Pang with the Lyric Opera of
Chicago and the Santa Fe Opera, Valzacchi with the
San Francisco Opera, Dr. Caius with the Los Angeles
Opera, and Monostatos with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic (Hollywood Bowl) and the Santa Fe
Opera.
He will return to the San Francisco Opera to sing
Mime in Das
Rheingold this season as well as Spoletta with
the Dallas Opera.
In 2009, Mr. Cangelosi will
sing Bob Boles in
Peter Grimes
and Mime (Ring
Cycle) with Washington Opera.
A former member of the
Lyric Opera Center
for American Artists, Mr. Cangelosi made his Lyric
Opera of Chicago debut in Salome in 1997.
Engagements with the home company have included
Madama
Butterfly,
Ariadne auf
Naxos,
Die
Zauberflöte,
Carmen (Dancairo),
Turandot,
and his internationally acclaimed signature role of
Mime (Siegfried).
He returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago
this season to sing Dr. Caius in
Falstaff.
He returns to the MET next season to reprise
the role of Tinca in
Il Tabarro.
Career highlights include,
Il Pagliacci
(Beppe) with Placido Domingo and the Washington
Opera (telecast on the PBS "Live from Kennedy
Center" series) and his Carnegie Hall debut with the
Cleveland Orchestra as Torquemada in Ravel's
L'Heure
Espagnole (under the baton of Pierre Boulez).
Additionally, Mr. Cangelosi has recorded the
Sword Forging Scene from
Siegfried
with Placido Domingo for the CD "Domingo/Scenes from
the Ring" with EMI Classics.
He recreated his critically acclaimed role of
Mime (Siegfried)
for Lyric’s 2005 Ring Cycle.
In August and December 2000, he completed the
CD/Film project of
Tosca and
made his screen debut at the Venice Film Festival in
September 2001. Other appearances include Sellem in
The Rakes
Progress (San Francisco Opera), Don Juan in
Don Quichotte
(Washington Opera), and Tybalt in
Romeo et
Juliette (Washington Opera). Mr. Cangelosi
has also sung Cassio with the Nashville Opera, Goro
with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and The Magician in
Menotti's The
Consul with the Berkshire Opera (available on
CD).
Mr. Cangelosi continues his close association with
The Lyric Opera of Chicago with roles that include
Beppe (Il
Pagliacci), Little Bat (Susannah),
Tobias (Sweeney
Todd), Guillot (Manon),
and Uncle Donato in Lyric’s world premiere of
William Bolcom’s
A
Wedding.
He performed Monostatos and Basilio with the
Paris Opera (Bastille/Garnier) and sang Pedrillo
with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.
Other engagements have included
Fidelio (Jacquino)
with the Cincinnati Symphony, Pang with the Columbus
Symphony, Prunier (La
Rondine) with the Boston Lyric Opera, and First
Jew (Salome)
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood
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Steven
M. Crawford, Conductor
It is the
Vann Vocal Institute’s pleasure to welcome Steven
Crawford, a Classical Singer magazine
Vocal Coach of
the Year.
Maestro
Crawford, having completed 9 years on the conducting
staff of the Metropolitan Opera with performances of
La Bohème,
has embarked on an active conducting career.
Beginning with Les Contes d’Hoffmann for
Prelude to Performance in New York City, he has
since conducted Don Giovanni with Dayton
Opera, Otello with Vero Beach Opera, The
Medium/Pagliacci
with Syracuse Opera, the professional premiere
of Glory Denied by Tom Cipullo
with the Remarkable Theatre Brigade, La
Boheme
with the Inwood Shakespeare Festival, Otello
with Louisville Opera, and Turandot with
Dayton opera.
He recently conducted Kirke Meecham’s
Tartuffe
in
Portland OR, and earlier
La
Cenerentola with the Cincinnati Opera,
where he had been called "the find of the evening"
for stepping in on twelve hours notice to conduct
Il Barbiere
di Siviglia, simultaneously accompanying
the recitatives on the fortepiano.
After working as Music Director of the Illinois
Opera Theatre, Maestro Crawford was engaged as
resident conductor of the Florida Grand Opera for
five years. During that time, he conducted
fifteen different productions, working with such
great artists as Sherill Milnes, Carol Neblett,
Justino Diaz, and Barbara Daniels. Maestro
Crawford has also conducted productions for
Chautauqua Opera, Opera in the Ozarks, Nevada Opera
and Opera Northeast. Upon his arrival in
New York City, he was
immediately engaged by the Metropolitan Opera Guild
as Music Director for their production of a newly
commissioned opera for young people.
An excellent symphonic conductor and proponent of
contemporary music, Maestro Crawford was engaged by
the New York Philharmonic as cover conductor for
Maestro Kurt Masur for the American premiere of
Minoru Miki's
Symphony
for Two Worlds. During the '98
season, he made his New York City conducting debut in the NYC City
premiere of
A Chekov
Trilogy by Richard Wargo. Before leaving
South Florida, he was asked to conduct
the New World Symphony in the
Concerto
for Saxophone by Don Martino and
returned the following year as guest soloist for the
world premiere of John Nelson's
Fantasies
and Flourishes, an interactive
concerto for disklavier and orchestra.
Maestro Crawford continues to
have an active career in accompanying when his
conducting schedule permits. He has in the
past accompanied Justino Diaz and Pablo Elvira in
Puerto Rico, Aprile Millo in Sao Paolo, Richard
Cowan on Belle Île en Mer, and Ortrun Wenkel and
Håkan Hagegåard in
Miami
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Elizabeth Buccheri, piano
Elizabeth Buccheri’s varied
career as coach and accompanist has included
twenty-eight seasons as accompanist for the Chicago
Symphony Chorus and the legendary Margaret Hillis;
pianist coach for the opera companies of Rochester’s
Opera Under the Stars and the Brevard (N.C.) Music
Festival; accompanist/coach for conductors Sir Georg
Solti, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre
Boulez, Zubin Mehta, Sir Andrew Davis, and Christoph
Eschenbach; and since 1987, assistant conductor at
Lyric Opera of Chicago.
An
experienced recitalist, she has appeared in
concert with singers Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson,
Susanne Mentzer, William Warfield, Samuel Ramey,
Pamela Hinchman, Elizabeth Futral, Nicole Cabell,
and Sherrill Milnes, with the
Shanghai
and Vermeer String Quartets, and with violinists
Midori and Gil Shaham. These concerts have taken her
to all parts of the
United States and to many
countries in Europe.
Buccheri has recorded extensively on the Cedille ,
Sony, CRI, Boston,
and Albany
labels and was responsible for musical preparation
on London Records’ issues of Schönberg’s
Moses und
Aron, Wagner’s
Die
Meistersinger von Nürenberg, and Verdi’s
Otello,
Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, Chorus, and soloists.
For this work, Elizabeth Buccheri received
the Solti Foundation Award, the first American
musician to be so honored.
In the 2004 and 2005 seasons, Buccheri assisted
Maestro Pierre Boulez, the Cleveland Orchestra,
Chorus, and soloists with preparations for
performances at Severance Hall,
Cleveland
and
Carnegie Hall, New York. She is the founder and music
director of Chamber Music at North Park, and was
awarded the honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree by
North Park
University in May 2004.
She joined the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival
in June 2005 where she prepares performances of
vocal works for Music Director David Zinman.
A dedicated teacher, Buccheri has given master
classes at the Juilliard
School, the Eastman School of Music,
the Aspen Music Festival, Lawrence Conservatory, and
the music academies of Lithuania and Latvia. In fall 2000 Buccheri joined
the faculty of Northwestern University’s School of Music
where she supervises the collaborative piano
program.
A native of South
Carolina, Elizabeth Buccheri was
educated at
Winthrop
University and the Eastman
School of Music, from which she received the
Performer’s Certificate in Piano and the Doctor of
Musical Arts degree. During the Rochester years, she was pianist for the
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and also performed
and toured with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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