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Montreal-born baritone Gerald Finley is well know for his performances in opera, especially in the operas of Mozart.
August 1, 2010
Videos at youtube of recent Glyndebourne Don Giovanni
That performance can be seen at medici.tv by those who are outside of the U.K.
Don Giovanni Unmasked from Glyndebourne on Vimeo.
New release:
Britten: Songs & Proverbs of William Blake
Gerald Finley, baritone, and Julius Drake, piano
amazon.com, release date 8 June 2010
amazon.co.uk, release date 1 June 2010
amazon.fr, release date 17 June 2010
amazon.de, release date 1 June 2010
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"The early song cycle on poems by Walter de la Mare, Tit for Tat, together with a motley collection of folk song arrangements and one-offs (including a setting of Goethe's Um Mitternacht) make an odd context for one of Britten's greatest song cycles. But Gerald Finley sings them all with such an unwaveringly beautiful tone and attention to every syllable, and pianist Julian Drake is so wonderfully attuned to the baritone's inflections that it hardly seems to matter."--Andrew Clements, reviewing CD of Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, etc., for guardian.co.uk, 4 stars
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May 16, 2010
"The Don of all Giovannis: Gerald Finley has made the Mozart part his own, and this summer Glyndebourne will feel the full force of his demonic charms," by Hugh Canning, Times Online
March 2010
February 2010
"The other bohemians were notably good, above all Gerald Finley's Marcello, strongly sung and managing to inject a surprising amount of personality into the proceedings (I hear down for the new productions of Onegin and Don G in a few years, which sounds good to me)."--Likely Impossibilities, reviewing La Bohème performance at Metropolitan Opera, New York
"The baritone Gerald Finley, last seen at the Met as J. Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams's "Doctor Atomic" (a riveting portrayal of a role Mr. Finley created), is an immensely gifted and versatile artist and was excellent as the hot-headed painter Marcello. He sang with robust sound, honesty, intelligence and impressive Italian diction."--Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
"Finley was perhaps the finest Marcello I can remember. What a luxury to have a really excellent baritone in this role."--Ed Rosen, anna-netrebko.blogspot.com
Reviews of Met La Bohème at GeraldFinley.info
February 2010
Gerald Finley has announced his engagement to marry long-term partner Heulwen Keyte!
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"Le baryton canadien Gerald Finley est maintenant reconnu comme l'un des grands interprètes actuels de la mélodie."--Claude Gingras, La Presse
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Vienna, January 2010
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Boston, January 2008
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Bach--Cantata No.61: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Advent), BWV61
Werner Güra Tenor, Concentus Musicus Wien--Orchestra, Christine Schaefer Soprano, Gerald Finley Bass, Arnold Schoenberg Chor Chorus/Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt Conductor
Gerald Finley sings the one-minute recitative "Siehe, ich stehe vor der Tür und klopfe an"
CD amazon.com, release date 8 December 2009
MP3 amazon.com
CD amazon.co.uk, release date 4 January 2010
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November 2009
Gesang der Insekten: Gerald Finley im Kammermusiksaal
November 2009
Gerarld Finley en La Zarzuela. Sigue con buen pie el ciclo de lied.
Review in French of Elijah performance at Geneva, 15 October 2009, ConcertoNet.com
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera Announces 2010 Summer Season
"The festival's second new production is Don Giovanni, continuing a Glyndebourne tradition of constantly revisiting the mature Mozart operas. Twenty-four years after originally joining the company's chorus, Gerald Finley will play the title role, and is joined by an equally stellar cast: Kate Royal's Elvira, Anna Samuil's Anna, William Burden's Ottavio and Luca Pisaroni's Leporello. Music Director Vladimir Jurowski will conduct the OAE."--MusicalCriticsm.com
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Hyperion CDs are on sale during September 2009 at ArkivMusic
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"If Gerald Finley were not also such an outstanding interpreter of German, French and American songs, he could easily get pigeonholed as an English-music specialist. The clarity and precise shading of his singing ensures that not a word goes astray; the effortless elegance of his phrasing preserves the exact shape of every line, while crucially never lapsing into the sentimentality that so often seems to be lurking round the corner in this repertory."--from review by Andrew Clements for the Guardian of June 22, 2009, recital at Wigmore Hall
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Gerald Finley now has
his own website, at
geraldfinley.com
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Article by Dominic
McHugh, musicalcriticism.com, 28 April 2007
La Scena Musicale article, May 1998