Laurence Dale
Laurence Dale ( born September 10, 1957 in Sussex ) is a British tenor, conductor and artistic director.
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Life
Laurence Dale studied from 1976 to 1980 singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Rudolf Piernay. In 1980, he attended the Summer Academy of the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Richard Miller. In addition, Dale took lessons with Peter Pears, Ernst Haefliger and Seth Riggs.
He made his debut in 1981 at the English National Opera as Camille in The Merry Widow. Until 1991, international performances followed at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, at the Theatre Basel, at the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival as part of the Summer Olympic Games in 1984 in Los Angeles, at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the Brussels opera house La Monnaie, the Paris Opera, the Zurich Opera, Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and Vienna State Opera.
Dale devoted to the research and revival of French operas of the 19th century. In this context, he sang in 1991 from Gustave Gustave III. ou Le bal masqué and 1989, the Joseph from the eponymous opera by Etienne- Nicolas Mehul. Jacques Lonchampt, the former music critic of Le Monde, wrote that Dale had all the qualities of a tenor of bronze, he sing flawlessly, classy and poignant. During his tenure as artistic director of the Opéra- Théâtre Metz sat Dale Gustave III. ou Le bal masqué even in modern scene.
Laurence Dale has retired for health reasons as a singer by the stage. From 2001 to 2004, Dale was the artistic director of the Opéra- Théâtre Metz and sat among other things, The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten, Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès, The Land of Smiles by Franz Lehár, The Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer, and one in French sung version of the opera Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi to the template Gustave III ou le bal masqué by Eugène Scribe in scene.
From 2005 to 2008 he was artistic director Dale at the Opera Africa in Pretoria. There, he directed the 2008 Aida and took it the place of the conductor. In the same year he sat at the State Theatre Innsbruck Zar und Zimmermann by Albert Lortzingstraße in scene. In 2009, Dale led performances of Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss for the Opéra Royal de Wallonie and the Opéra de Monaco. In 2011 he staged the human voice by Francis Poulenc and The Spanish Hour by Maurice Ravel for the National Reisopera in Enschede. Since 2001, Dale also runs the Evian Festival Orchestra during the Escales musicales in Evian- les- Bains.
Awards
Laurence Dale won in 1980 the price of the Mozart Week of the Mozarteum. In 1982 he was awarded the medal of the city of Paris.