Master Class: Anthony Dean Griffey
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- Date/Time
- 10/02/2012 12:30 PM EST - 1:30 PM EST
- Location
- Diehn Center for the Performing Arts - Chandler Recital Hall
- Description
- "American tenor Anthony Dean Griffey as Lennie is nothing short of inspired, in total vocal control and utterly inside the part. He has a charismatic presence" -Barney Zwartz, Sydney Morning Herald. Four-time Grammy Award Winning American tenor Anthony Dean Griffey has captured critical and popular acclaim on opera, concert and recital stages around the world.The combination of his beautiful and powerful lyric tenor voice, gift of dramatic interpretation and superb musicianship have earned him the highest praise from critics and audiences alike. He has performed leading roles at the great international opera houses. He is a regular guest of the world's orchestras including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto and abroad in London, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, Glasgow, Amsterdam and Melbourne. Griffey's recent operatic appearances include the title role of Peter Grimes with the Houston Grand Opera and Lennie in Of Mice and Men with Opera Australia. His recent symphonic appearances include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Nashville Symphony, Britten's War Requiem at Carnegie Hall with Seiji Ozawa and many others. He also appears in recital around the country under the auspices of San Francisco Performances, Parlance Chamber Concerts in Parlance, New Jersey, Rice University in Houston, Texas, The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Skidmore College in Saratoga, New York.
