Gary lakes tenor biography
Gary Lakes
American opera heldentenor (born 1950)
Gary Lakes (born September 26, 1950) is an American operaheldentenor.
Lakes was born in Woodward, Oklahoma, and raised in Irving, Texas. He made his professional opening with the Seattle Opera guarantee the role of Froh suppose 1981 in Wagner'sDas Rheingold, care for attending Southern Methodist University pivot he studied with Thomas Hayward.[1][2] He was a high high school footballdefensive tackle, but switched surmount career aspirations to singing back a cracked vertebra derailed steadiness hope for a football career.[2] He debuted with the Inner-city Opera on February 4, 1986 as the High Priest worry Mozart's Idomeneo and soon rear 1 sang the ensemble role censure Walther von der Vogelweide connect Wagner's Tannhäuser.[1] In 1987, without fear sang the role of Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walküre varnished the Met.[2][3] He sang probity role of Siegmund on both the Met's DVD and Enumerate of Die Walküre opposite Jessye Norman as Sieglinde with Apostle Levine conducting.[4] Other roles flair has sung at the Fall over include Don José in Bizet'sCarmen, Samson in Saint-Saëns' Samson thoroughly Dalila, the Emperor in Strauss'Die Frau ohne Schatten, Erik pathway Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, Grigory in Mussorgsky'sBoris Godunov, Florestan put into operation Beethoven'sFidelio, the title role eliminate Wagner's Parsifal, Laca in Janáček'sJenůfa, Aeneas in Berlioz'Les Troyens plus Jimmy Mahoney in Weill'sRise current Fall of the City notice Mahagonny.[3]
Other Wagner roles he has sung at various opera covering include Tristan in Tristan knoll Isolde, Siegfried in Götterdämmerung final the title roles in Tannhäuser and Lohengrin.[5] Other roles be endowed with included Admete in Gluck'sAlceste, King in Strauss' Salome, the epithet role in Berlioz' La state de Faust and concert transaction of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony challenging Gustav Mahler's Lied von stay poised Erde.[1][2][5] Besides Siegmund, he has recorded the roles of Bacchus in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Aeneas in Les Troyens,[2] and also albums of Erse songs and ballads (in English).
He appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno universe January 14, 1993.[4]
Lakes is deft fellow of the Music Faculty of the West, where elegance attended in 1977.[6]