ehbass

2012-02-09T05:56:00.000-08:00

2010-03-19T14:29:00.000-07:00

links

2010-02-05T08:27:00.001-08:00

www.harvardmagazine.com/2008/07/from-soaps-to-solos.html

www.classiclive.com/concerts/2008/december/the-magic-flute

www.sudtirol1.com

http://alumni.cgps.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=680005&rc=0

shows

2008-01-21T13:28:00.000-08:00

Baron Ochs Der Rosenkavalier Feb/Mar 2012
Gurnermanz Parsifal Theater Basel June 2011
Rocco Fidelio Teatro Comunale Bolzano January 2011
Rocco Fidelio Teatro Dante Alighieri Ravenna Feb 2011
Fafner, Hunding, Fafner Wagner's Ring Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari, Italy
Commendatore Don Giovanni Versailles France 2010

Judge Turpin Sweeney Todd Bologna, Lugo, Modena, Piacenza 2009

Sarastro Die Zauberfloete Teatro la Fenice, Liege, Stuttgart, Berlin, Bremen, et al.

Zaccaria Nabucco Theater Bremen

Kardinal Rienzi Theater Bremen. Directed by Katherina Wagner

Narrator World Premier of Jonathan Keren's triple concerto for piano, clarinet, narrator and orchestra at 92nd St. Y with Ensemble Suedama conducted by Guy Feder, with Gilad Harel (clarinet) and David Greilsammer (piano).

Alonso Der Sturm by Frank Martin conducted by Thierry Fischer at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam October 2008. This concert, part of the NPS opera matinee series, was broadcast live on radio, and released as a CD on the Hyperion label.

Osmin Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen.

Sprecher Die Zauberfloete Rome Auditorium, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma

Insomnia at Guggenheim museum in New York, a new song written by David Felder
for my voice and percussionist Daniel Druckman of the New York Philharmonic. This was part of a program of songs setting the poems of Dana Gioia, sponsored by Hudson Review as part of their 60th anniversary April 27, 2008

Don Basilio Il Barbiere di Siviglia BJU South Carolina
Mefistofele in Boito's Mefistofele BJU South Carolina

Kommissarius in Der Rosenkavalier at Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, February 2008. (sang there in 2005, my first italian job, in Billy Budd.) I sang this Commissioner role in my first regional job in the US at Florentine Opera Milwaukee.

2007-06-29T15:14:00.000-07:00

biography

2006-08-22T16:39:00.000-07:00

2007-2008 highlights include Fafner (Das Rheingold) in Bari, Puglia, Kommissarius (Rosenkavalier) in a return engagement at Teatro Carlo Felice (Genoa), and Sprecher (Die Zauberfloete) with www.orchestrasinfonicadiroma.com, and a return to Bob Jones University as Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
2006-2007 included King Marke in a debut at Teatro Regio di Torino, Sarastro at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Commendatore at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee, Leporello in Brescia, Cremona, Como, and Paris, and Abimelech in Samson and Delila at Hawaii Opera
In the 2005-2006 season Ethan Herschenfeld sang Sarastro at Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Don Fernando in Fidelio at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee, the title role in Ariane et Barbe-Bleue at New York City Opera, and the title role in Boito's Mefistofele in the Bob Jones University production where Jerome Hines and Samuel Ramey previously sang the role. In recent seasons he created the role of Butt the Busdriver/Butt the Hoopoe in the world premiere of Wuorinen's Haroun and the Sea of Stories at New York City Opera, and sang Mephistopheles at Hong Kong Opera, Sarastro at the Stuttgart Staatsoper, Reverend Hale in The Crucible at Chautauqua Opera, Ratcliffe in Billy Budd at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, both Rocco and Sparafucile with the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv and and Fafner in Wagner's Ring, and King Marke and Gurnemanz at the Tiroler Festspiele in Austria. Other appearances have included Indiana Elliot's Brother in The Mother of Us All at San Francisco Opera and Hunding with Eos Orchestra both directed by Christopher Alden, The Nose at the Bard Summerscape Festival directed by Francesca Zambello, Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd at Toledo Opera, Zuniga in Carmen at Mobile Opera, Colline in La Boheme at Chattanooga Opera, and King Zuoxian in Lam's Wenji in New York and Hong Kong.

At Carnegie Hall in New York he has sung the Mozart Requiem and Vesperae Solennes, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Theresienmesse, and the world premier of Rittenhouse's Vision of the Apolcalypse. In his 2001 Lincoln Center debut he sang the arias of Gremin and Basilio with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. A graduate of Harvard College, he won First Prize 2003 Friedrich Schorr Competition (Connecticut), Grand Prize 2002 Excellence in Arts Competition (Philadelphia), First Prize 2001 Sembrich Voice Competition (New York), and First Prize for Americans 2001 Moniuszko Competition (Warsaw). He was also a finalist in the Oratorio Society of New York Competition, singing from Verdi's Requiem, Haydn's Creation and Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ, and won second prize in the DiCapo Opera competition. He began his vocal training with Franco Corelli and since 1997 has studied with Armen Boyajian. Since his professional debut as Sarastro in Sweden, he has sung more than forty roles in the US, Europe, and Asia.

oratorio

2006-05-08T14:31:00.000-07:00

vesperae solennes & theresienmesse, carnegie hall
handel messiah carnegie hall, new york, usa; donald neuen
mozart requiem carnegie hall, new york
vision of the apocalypse, south africa tour; virginia rittenhouse

reviews/critica

2005-10-30T14:42:00.000-08:00

Fafner (Siegfried)
"...significative le prestazioni di Joachim Seipp, Alberich; Ethan Herschenfeld, Fafner e Mette Ejsing, Erda..."
Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno 19June2010

"Positive le prestazioni del basso Ethan Herschefeld (Fafner)..."
www.cannibali.it 20June2010

Sparafucile, Basilio, De Beque

"Il piu agguerrito e temperamentoso nella vocalita e il basso Ethan Herschenfeld che ben si distreggia col musical South Pacific, un tempo cavallo di battaglia del celebre basso Ezio Pinza, e che ora Herschenfeld fa suo con canto elegante; poi nel duetto "Pari siamo" dal Rigoletto verdiano, e un intenso Sparafucile, ricco di un bel timbro profondo con un discreto fraseggio che spicca nella successiva "Calunnia" del Barbiere. "

L'Opera Aprile 2009

Judge Turpin

"Apice dell'ambiguo e la fortissima scena del perfido giudice Turpin (Ethan Herschenfeld) che mentre sbircia la sua protetta Johanna, giacula e si fustiga, brama e si batte, finge pentimento e si da piacere."

Libero 24 March 2009

"...eccezionale...giudice di Ethan Herschenfeld (che sembra Christopher Lee in Dracula)..."

Classic Voice Aprile 2009

(il mio bisnonno e immigrato a New York dalla Transylvania, makes sense with my Transylvanian roots)

"Ethan Herschenfeld brought a dramatic physical and vocal presence to Judge Turpin."
American Record Guide

"Ethan Herschenfeld was clarion in voice and emotional affect as the morally despicable Judge Turpin."
The Blade, Toledo Ohio

Don Basilio

"Bass Ethan Herschenfeld is well-suited for the role of Basilio, Rosina's music teacher and Bartolo's confidante. His defining number, 'La calunnia,' flows like dark chocolate."
The Greenville News March 2008

Leporello
"...la nostra preferenza va...a Ethan Herschenfeld (Leporello)..."
La Provincia di Como

Barbe-Bleue
"...the strapping bass Ethan Herschenfeld made an impact in the role."
The New York Times

"...Ethan Herschenfeld made the most of it, giving a sharp portrait of a dark, wounded spirit."
The New Yorker

"...Ethan Herschenfeld gave a commendable performance of the role with his rich bass-baritone sound."
Opera Japonica Reports

Don Fernando
"... the uniformly effortless sound of the men (especially bass Ethan Herschenfeld, whose Fernando is a smooth-talking pol); and everyone's elegant, rounded phrases made for endearingly intimate music."
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Butt the Hoopoe / Butt the Busdriver
"The large cast was consistently impressive. Among the standouts...Ethan Herschenfeld as the mechanical bird Butt the Hoopoe."
The New York Times

"Ethan Herschenfeld (Butt), Joel Sorensen (Snooty Buttoo), Ryan MacPherson (Iff) and Wilbur Pauley (Mali) were consistently engaging as the most colorful of the exotics..."
New York Observer

"What an amazing cast.They were all passionately committed to the difficult score but none more so than Ethan Herschenfeld as both Butt the bus driver and Hoopoe. He seemed to be singing all of Wuorinen's notes and expressively so.He is a young and very promising singer."
Opera-L

"satisfying"
The New Yorker

"powerful voice..."
Indo-Asian News Service

King Zuoxian
"Ethan Herschenfeld, a booming basso. A singer of imposing stature, impressive voice."
The New York Times

"Herschenfeld sings a heart-wrenching finale."
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong

Osmin
"Herschenfeld is a true creature of the stage."
Yediot Ahronot, Tel Aviv

"The kudos belong to Ethan Herschenfeld for an Osmin whose low notes are still resonating on the Tsai Center stage and whose portrayal made you sorry he didn't get the girl."
Theater Mirror, Boston

"Herschenfeld gives you goose bumps."
Ha'Aretz, Tel Aviv

Hunding
"Herschenfeld's brilliant portrayal of Hunding as a simple minded exterminator was a hilarious portrayal of a loveless husband and a lousy lover."
Wagner Society, New York

"Emozionanti le voci del tenore Christian Elsner, del basso Ethan Herschenfeld e del soprano Anna-Katharina Behnke, sul palco rispettivamente Siegmund, Hunding e Sieglinde."

www.BariMia.info

"Buona la prestazione dell’aitante basso Ethan Herschenfeld nel ruolo di Hunding, sposo di Sieglinde e antagonista di Siegmund. "

www.cannibali.it

"...cupo e amaro lo Hunding di Ethan Herschenfeld."

www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it

"Eccellenti le voci, in particolare il sestetto dei protagonisti..."

www.giornaledellamusica.it

" impressive..."
Gay City News

Commendatore

"Herschenfeld's Commendatore had gravitas."
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"le Commandeur d’Ethan Herschenfeld, faisant étalage de sa grande voix noire de basse, donne un relief saisissant au spectre qui s'invite au dîner."

classiquenews.com Opera Royal, Versailles

"Bass Ethan Herschenfeld was an imposing, large-voiced Commendatore…he was an awesome presence."
Daily Progress, Charlottesville

Abimelech
"...bass Ethan Herschenfeld (Abimelech) sings a strong aria before being summarily dispatched by Samson..."
The Honolulu Advertiser, Hawaii

Cardinal Brogni

"Herschenfeld demonstrated a well-controlled basso down to some of the lowest notes in the score and acted so well with his voice."
www.operalover.net

rep.

2005-10-30T09:11:00.000-08:00

opera
beethoven: rocco, don fernando
bellini: giorgio, oroveso
boito: mefistofele
borodin: konchak
donizetti: raimondo
lam: king zuoxian (created role)
mozart: commendatore, osmin, sarastro
mussorgsky: pimen, varlaam
ponchielli: alvise
puccini: colline, simone
gounod: mephistopheles
rimsky: tsar dodon
rossini: basilio
saint-saëns: abimelech, old hebrew
tchaikovsky: gremin
verdi: banquo, ferrando, fiesco, guardiano, inquisitor, sparafucile
wagner: fafner, fasolt, hunding, marke, gurnemanz
weill: frank maurrant
wourinen: butt the hoopoe (created role)

oratorio
beethoven: symph no.9
handel: messiah
haydn: creation, seasons, theresienmesse
mozart: requiem, vesperae solennes
rittenhouse: vision of the apocalypse
rossini: stabat mater
verdi: requiem

contact

2005-10-29T09:19:00.000-07:00

ehbass@gmail.com

Italy:
Agenzia Lirica Internazionale
www.aliopera.com
Beatrice Ferraro
b.ferraro@aliopera.com
+39 (0)2 89 86 66 90
via carlo poma 9
20129 milano italy

Various Countries:

Walter Vladarski
opera.vladarski@utanet.at
Döblinger Hauptstraße 57/18
A-1190 Wien Austria

+43 1 368 69 60/61
+43 1 368 69 62 fax

Boris Orlob

Jaegerstr. 70

D-10117 Berlin Germany

www.orlob.net

boris@orlob.net

+49 30 20 45 08 39

+49 30 20 45 08 49 fax

training, education

2005-01-06T02:06:00.000-08:00

armen boyajian, teacher
harvard college b.a. literature with honors
actor's institute, london
american rep. theatre, cambridge
aspen music festival and school
international vocal arts institute, tel aviv
epcaso, oderzo italy

upcoming

2005-01-06T01:53:00.000-08:00

baron ochs der rosenkavalier bloomington, indiana