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American Stephen Gould is currently one of the most sought after heroic operatic tenors worldwide. He received his musical training at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts . Upon completion of his studies, he joined the Lyric Opera of Chicago Center for American Artists. Other opera engagements included Boston Concert Opera and Los Angeles Music Center Opera. For the next eight years, Stephen Gould toured across the United States performing in the Andrew Lloyd Webber mega-hit musical "The Phantom of the Opera". Afterward, he returned to New York City where he made the vocal transition to heldentenor under the guidance of former Metropolitan opera baritone John Fiorito.

Critical praise greeted his debut as Florestan in Fidelio with the Linzer Landestheater. Popular and critical success continued with Britten's Peter Grimes and Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila. Particular renown followed with Stephen Gould's first of many performances of the title role in Wagner's Tannhäuser. Opern Welt magazine proclaimed Stephen as "a Tannhäuser of international stature." After this he quickly emerged as one of Europe 's leading tenors.

Future projects of Stephen Gould in 2008 include the revival of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung at the Bayreuth Festival conducted by Christian Thielemann, Otello in concert form at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Tannhäuser at the Semperoper, Dresden, Oedipus Rex in London conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, as well as a new production of Götterdämmerung (Franz Welser-Möst/Sven Eric Bechtolf) at the Vienna State Opera.

In 2009 he will sing new productions of Korngold's Die tote Stadt (Ingo Metzmacher, cond.) in London, Peter Grimes (Donald Runnicles, cond.) in Geneva, Tannhäuser at Las Palmas and also in Rome, Otello (Kazushi Ono, cond.) in Tokyo, Ring cycles at Vienna State Opera as well as Mahler's 8th Symphony, conducted by Pierre Boulez in New York's Carnegie Hall.

In 2010 are scheduled new production's of Der fliegende Holländer in Madrid, Tannhäuser at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Der fliegende Holländer and Ring Cycles in Vienna, his much anticipated debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and - at the turn of the year - his first 'Tristan' Tristan und Isolde conducted by Kazushi Ono in Tokyo.

2011 will include Ring Cycles and Der fliegende Holländer in Vienna , Les Troyens at Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos in Santiago del Chile.

A look back at Stephen Gould's busy schedule during the past few seasons have included new productions of Siegfried (Welser-Möst/Bechtolf) in Vienna, Tannhäuser (Seiji Ozawa/Robert Carsen) in Paris, Peter Grimes (Ivor Bolton), Die Liebe der Danae (Fabio Luisi), and Otello (Massimo Zanetti) in Dresden, Fidelio in Tokyo, Der fliegende Holländer in Munich (Adam Fischer/Peter Konwitschny), Siegfried and Götterdämmerung at the Bayreuth Festival (Thielemann), Lohengrin in Trieste, Tannhäuser in Geneva (Ulf Schirmer), Die tote Stadt in Berlin (Thielemann) and Vienna (Runnicles), Fidelio in Rome, Der fliegende Holländer in Palermo (Gabriele Ferro), Ariadne auf Naxos and Parsifal (Philipp Jordan) in Graz, Les Troyens, Fidelio and Otello (Zubin Mehta) in Florence, a well as many other appearances in Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Hamburg, Barcelona and Madrid.

As a concert singer he was heard in Beethoven 9th symphony with Atlantic Symphony Orchestra (Runnicles - Telarc cd recording), in Berlin (Daniel Barenboim) and Munich (Hartmut Haenchen), Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Helmut Rilling), Schönberg's Gurrelieder in Montreal (Kent Nagano), Berlin (Marek Janowski), Brusselles and Amsterdam (Mark Wigglesworth) and in Helsinki (Esa-Pekka Salonen) Mahler's 8th symphony at the Bergen Festival (Daniel Lipton), in Paris, Vienna and Budapest (Myung-Whun Chung), Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in Graz (Phillip Jordan) as well as in Israel and at the Lucerne Festival (Zubin Mehta)…


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