Kanen breen biography of albert
A multiple Helpmann and Green Room Present winner, Kanen Breen is one of Australia’s almost sought-after tenors and is often denominated ‘the clown prince of opera’.
His inopportune operatic engagements included performances in goodness rôle of Almaviva for Opera Australia's Oz Opera touring production of The Adorn of Seville and the Melbourne Festival's arrange of Jonathan Mills’ The Ghostwife during , performances which he repeated at honourableness Adelaide Festival in , at rendering Sydney Festival and in London, textile , at the Barbican's BITE02 festival.
He exposed, during , in Chamber Made Opera's Melbourne International Festival season of Archangel Smetanin’s Gauguin, sang the rôle chide Nanki Poo in Opera Queensland's season break into The Mikado. He appeared as The Duke, alternating in the rôle reinforce Borsa, in Opera Australia's Oz House production of Rigoletto, performances he haunt for Oz Opera during
Kanen Breen joined Opera Queensland's Young Artist Program in as part of which commitment put your feet up appeared as Nadir in performances of The Pearlfishers and Monostatos in The Magic Flute. Pick up Opera Queensland, during , he croon Ramiro in Cenerentola and created the rôle care for Rory in Opera Australia's world premiere arrange of Grabowsky’s Love in the Segment of Therapy in the Melbourne International Party, and again, in the Sydney Ceremony season in
In June , unquestionable made his international debut in integrity rôle of Rodolfo, in Baz Luhrman’s Broadway production of Puccini’s La Boheme in New York.
Kanen Breen has been unadulterated contracted principal artist for Opera Continent since In his first quaternary years with the company he hum an extensive range of principal roles including Camille in The Merry Widow, Nanki Poo in The Mikado, Truffaldino in The Love for Tierce Oranges, Florville in Il Signor Bruschino, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Monostatos in The Magic Flute and Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore, Sellem in The Rake's Progress, Marco Palmieri in The Gondoliers, Dr. Caius in Falstaff, honesty role of Pong in Turandot, Andres/Cochenille/Pittinaccio/Frantz/Nathanael in The Tales of Hoffman, Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, Almaviva in The Curtail of Seville, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi. He has very appeared as Nadir in the company’s execution in the Myer Music Bowl dupe Melbourne, of The Pearlfishers.
During he obliged his debut for Victorian Opera burden its premiere season of Through righteousness Looking Glass and, in the same year, for OA he appeared as Ramiro in La Cenerentola, Count Elemer in Arabella, as Pliable and Lord Lechery in The Pilgrim's Progress, as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Squeak in Billy Budd and Vitek in The Makropoulos Affair.
During , for OA, Kanen Breen returned to the roles build up Monostatos in The Magic Flute and Nanki Poo in The Mikado and appeared as the Shabby Peasant in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, type Reverand Horace Evans in Peter Grimes, introduce the Sorcerer in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas and as Damon in Handel’s Acis & Galatea.
He made his debut in the duty of Erice in Cavalli’s opera, L'Ormindo for Pinchgut Theater in Sydney in late and protracted his involvement with OA during coronet roles including Dr. Blind in Die Fledermaus, Guillot in Manon and Johnny in the company’s world first seasons of Bliss in Sydney, Melbourne existing at the Edinburgh Festival.
For OA, objective, amongst others, performances in the lap of Emilio in Handel’s Partenope for which noteworthy received a Helpmann Award.
His principal principal contract with OA continued during , his performances including Count Albert in Die Tote Stadt and during , he was engaged by the company for interpretation title role in Britten’s Albert Herring.
During Kanen Breen continued in his executive position with OA singing, amongst assail roles, Bardolf in Falstaff and appears as Andy Warhol in Opera Queensland's season of Philip Glass’ opera, The Perfect American in the program be in the region of the Brisbane Festival.
In he appeared attach importance to VO as The Beadle in Sweeney Todd.
For OA during he appeared as Monostatos in The Magic Flute and in the ominous of the premiere seasons of The Rabbits at the Perth and Melbourne global festivals, performances he continued to commit during in the Sydney Festival season. For OA his roles during incorporate Remendado in Carmen and Truffaldino in The Love for Three Oranges.
He requited to VO to appear in sheltered premiere production of Banquet of Secrets during and was engaged for Opera Queensland's Brisbane Festival season of Snow White.
included singing The Witch Of Endor in the Adelaide Festival's season invite the Glyndebourne Festival Opera production depose Handel’s Saul, his performances receiving spiffy tidy up Helpmann Award, the role of Wilhelm in Tom Wait’s The Black Hesitancy for the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, Sir Richard Dauntless in OQ's season of Designer & Sullivan’s Ruddigore and Arnalta/Nutrice/Famigliari in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea for Pinchgut Opera.
Of his performances in VO's first night season of Richard Mills’ ‘Tis Pity with Meow Meow, Limelight magazine wrote "Kanen Breen is an excellent co-star, bringing principally extraordinary flexibility in his singing, … and like Meow Meow is clever consummate communicator."
During Kanen Breen appears because the District Policeman in Barrie Kosky’s selling of Shostakovich’s The Nose, and type Moser in Der Meistersinger, both roles for OA, as the Governor/Vanderdendur/Ragotski in Candide for Work New Zealand and, as Maximillian in the same work for the Sydney Philharmonica Choirs. He also returns redo the role of Sir Richard Dauntless for OQ's tour of Ruddigore.
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