Huw Montague Rendall; "Deh vieni alla finestra"; DON GIOVANNI; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Описание: Huw Montague Rendall---baritone
Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen
Ben Glassberg---conductor
2024
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BBC Music MagazineDecember 2024
The first thing one notices in this wide-ranging recital from rising baritone Huw Montague Rendall is his seriousness of purpose...There’s also top-rank work from the orchestra and conductor; a real collaboration has taken place, and the results are quite something.
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Gramophone MagazineNovember 2024
Montague Rendall’s characterisations are consistently focused and tellingly insightful throughout...It’s a superb recital and a most distinguished debut, and I cannot recommend it too highly.
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The Guardian29th August 2024
His debut solo recording justifies the buzz. Hamlet’s soliloquy from Ambroise Thomas’s opera – velvet-toned, nuanced, with beautifully floated high notes – sets the tone for an eclectic programme on themes of self-discovery...he’s heartbreakingly engaging as Britten’s Billy Budd and puts in a classy turn as Carousel’s Billy Bigelow.
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"One of the most exciting talents to have emerged in recent years, British baritone Huw Montague Rendall has already made hugely acclaimed debuts on some of the world’s most important stages such as the Royal Ballet & Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opéra National de Paris, Festival d’Aix en Provence, and the Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festivals, earning rapturous acclaim for his compelling artistry, stage craft and musicianship.

Winner of the 2024 Oper! Awards for Best Newcomer, this season sees the release of Montague Rendall’s debut album recording, Contemplation, with Warner/Erato where he is an exclusive recording artist. His opera engagements start with David McVicar’s loved production of Le nozze di Figaro as the Count at the Royal Ballet & Opera. He then makes a very exciting house and role debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in the title role in Billy Budd before returning to the Opéra national de Paris for a highly anticipated new production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.

Previously Montague Rendall made a series of extraordinary debuts: the title role in Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet in a new production created at Komische Oper Berlin; his company debut at Opéra national de Paris with a double appearance: Papageno Die Zauberflöte and Mercutio in the premiere of Thomas Jolly’s Roméo et Juliette; Papageno in a new production of Die Zauberflöte at Opéra National du Rhin which was also a vehicle for his hugely acclaimed debut at Royal Ballet & Opera and at Lyric Opera of Chicago; Guglielmo Così fan tutte at Staatsoper Hamburg and Glyndebourne; Pelléas Pelléas et Mélisande at Santa Fe Opera and at Opéra de Rouen Normandie; Malatesta in a critically acclaimed production of Don Pasquale at Glyndebourne Festival; Le nozze di Figaro at Opéra National de Lorraine; and Harlequin Ariadne auf Naxos at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.



Equally at home in concert and recital, he was heard as Christus in a European tour of the Bach Trilogy: The Life of Christ with Raphaël Pichon and Ensemble Pygmalion, which comprised three oratorios: The Christmas Oratorio, St John Passion and The Easter Oratorio; Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem together with the Dutch National Opera at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Ned Keene Peter Grimes at the Enescu Festival; a “Mozart Matinee” series with Pichon at the Salzburg Festival; Richard Blackford’s Pietà at the Cadogan Hall with the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orchestra; Mendelssohn Die Erste Walpurgisnacht with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Duruflé Requiem with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra; and many concerts in the UK ranging from solo song recitals to sacred works by Brahms, Handel, Stainer, Fauré, Finzi and Vaughan Williams. A dedicated recitalist, his most recent appearances include a recital at the Opéra de Lille, a recital with Hélio Vida in Nancy and Die Schöne Müllerin with pianist Gary Matthewman for Lancaster Arts.


An alumnus of the Royal College of Music, Montague Rendall trained under the tutorage of Russell Smythe, having previously studied under David Rendall and Philip Doghan. In summer 2016 Montague Rendall was a Jerwood Young Artist with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where he sang the role of Fiorello Il barbiere di Siviglia, for which he was awarded the much-coveted John Christie Award 2016. The following summer he joined the prestigious Young Artist Programme at the Salzburg Festspiele and was a member of the International Opera Studio in Zürich from 2016 to 2018."; MWA (edited)