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Mark's Passion.(BARITONE MARK DELAVAN)
BARITONE MARK DELAVAN'S LONG STRUGGLE FOR ACCEPTANCE HAS ONLY MADE HIS TRIUMPHS SWEETER
Mark Delavan did not want to be an opera singer. "I wanted to be a football player. I knew what I wanted to play, and for whom: tight end for the Dallas Cowboys under Tom Landry. And I actually pursued that first. I played high-school football, not well. I even played one year of college football, not well." Playing mediocre football didn't seem to be leading to a future. ("That's O.K.," he says today -- "if it had worked out, I'd be long-retired by now!") Instead, the young didn't-wannabe baritone majored in business. "I hated it. I took an economics class. Oh, my God! To ...
- American bass-baritone Mark Doss continues to see his roles expand.(Time Out!)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) February 16, 2001 700+ words
...roles in her repertoire, has just added Senta in Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman," currently at Lyric. American bass-baritone Mark S. Doss, who just finished portraying the music teacher Don Basilio in Gioachino Rossini's comic masterpiece, "The...
- Puccini's 'Turadot' opens Lyric's next season.(Time Out!)(Classical music)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) January 20, 2006 700+ words
...includes mezzo-soprano Susan Graham as Iphigenie, baritone Mark Delavan as King Thoas, baritone Simon Keenleyside in his...mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick as the gypsy Azucena. Baritone Mark Delavan is Count di Luna, and bass Andrea Silvestrelli...
- Il Trittico.(Opera review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Rich, Alan September 9, 2008 700+ words
...Running time: 3 HOURS, 45 MIN. Il Tabarro Michele Mark Delavan Giorgetta Anja Kampe Luigi Salvatore Licitra With...French perfume, is the strongest of the three works. Baritone Mark Delavan delivered an overwhelming performance as the lovelorn...
- Lyric's take on 'Parsifal' hauntingly apocalyptic.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Gowen, Bill February 4, 2002 700+ words
...Gosta Winbergh Kundry Catherine Malfitano Amfortas Mark Delavan Guernemanz Matti Salminen Titurel Bjarni Thor Kristinsson...signature roles. Equally impressive are American baritone Mark Delavan as the angst-ridden king of the Knights of the...
- Cast announced for S.F. Opera's 'Ring' Cycle
- Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune Sue Gilmore September 25, 2009 700+ words
...July 3. Swedish soprano Nina Stemme will make her complete "Ring" debut in the role of Brunnhilde; American baritone Mark Delavan, already seen as Wotan in last season's "Das Rheingold" and booked for next spring's "Die Walkure...
- Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera and the American Symphony Orchestra....
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil December 22, 2002 700+ words
...performances of this treacherous role she has left in her. A pity, as this Salome had much to admire. American baritone Mark Delavan's star is on the rise, but there is a quality to his sound that some find wanting. However, his Jokannaan...
- Verdi's La Forza del Destino.(Opera review)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Smith, Patrick J. April 1, 2006 700+ words
...him is to ask too much: What is given, in this difficult Verdi role, is almost enough. The young American baritone Mark Delavan (Carlo), however, has the makings of the real thing: a classic Verdi baritone to join the long American line...
- Go West for Puccini at his best; REVIEW.
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) September 25, 2005 700+ words
...pretty well although his big Act Three aria, Ch'ella Mi Creda, is distressingly short-winded. The American baritone Mark Delavan is adequate as Johnson's nemesis, the sheriff Jack Rance. In the pit Antonio Pappano conducts with all the...
