Thomas Stewart (bass-baritone)
Thomas Stewart ( born July 29, 1928 in San Saba, Texas, United States, † September 24, 2006 in Rockville, Maryland) was an American opera singer in the bass-baritone voice type.
Life
Stewart studied at the Juilliard School in New York and began as a concert singer. In 1957 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Berlin, where he sang until 1964 and his accent-free control and strikingly clear pronunciation of the German acquired. Since 1960, he sang at the Bayreuth Festival ( until 1972 ). Until the 1970s, he was considered one of the leading Wagnerian bass - baritones of his time. He has collaborated in 1961 with the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished masterpiece " Jacob's Ladder " with. At the Vienna State Opera Stewart was heard from 1960 to 1975. On the New York Metropolitan Opera he sang from 1966 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 1993.
Thomas Stewart was married to the soprano Evelyn Lear.
Musical arrangement
Thomas Stewart was one of the best singers in the transitional period between the generation Hans Hotter, George London and Ferdinand Frantz ' on the one hand and that of Willard White and John Tomlinson on the other hand, all of which are sturdier and sonorere voices as he available (ed). Stewart, as well as Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau, Zoltán Kelemen and John Shirley - Quirk - the other great singers of his vocal compartment of his generation - was more of a master of clear articulation and vocal nuance. Despite his impressive discography, he fell into relative obscurity, which can be partly explained by its more lyrical and less heroic approach to the key roles of the Wagner repertoire.
Discography (selection)
- With Herbert von Karajan: The Valkyrie ( Wotan ), Siegfried ( as a walker ), Götterdämmerung (as Gunther )
- With Rafael Kubelik: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (as Hans Sachs), Lohengrin (as Telramund )
- With Hans Knappertsbusch: Parsifal ( Amfortas )
- With Pierre Boulez: Parsifal ( Amfortas )
- With Karl Böhm: The Flying Dutchman (as The Dutchman )
- With Karl Richter: A German Requiem