Song recital
Stephen Costello

Tenor Stephen Costello is from Philadelphia and studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts. In 2007, at the age of 26, he made his debut at the opening of the Metropolitan Opera season in New York. In 2009, he won the Richard Tucker Award. Since then, he has performed at the world’s leading opera houses and festivals, including the Royal Opera in London, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra national de Paris, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Semperoper Dresden, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Hamburg State Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Washington National Opera, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Arena di Verona, as well as the Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals and the Glyndebourne Festival. His recent engagements include Pinkerton ("Madama Butterfly") at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Rodolfo ("La bohème"), the Duke of Mantua ("Rigoletto"), and Greenhorn ("Moby Dick") at the Metropolitan Opera, the title role in "Don Carlo" at the Bavarian State Opera and Dallas Opera, as well as his role debut as Edward Fairfax Vere ("Billy Budd") at the Teatro Colón. In concert, he has performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Michael Tilson Thomas and the Houston Symphony Orchestra, gave a gala concert with Kristine Opolais in Mexico, and appeared in recitals with pianist Anthony Manoli. At the Zurich Opera House, he appeared as Roméo ("Roméo et Juliette") and in the title roles of "Roberto Devereux" and "Don Carlo".

Anthony Manoli studierte am New England Conservatory of Music und an der Juilliard School. Er gibt weltweit Masterklassen und unterrichtet an der New School/Mannes College of Music in New York und in unterschiedlichen Programmen wie beispielsweise dem Los Angeles Opera’s Young Artist Program und dem New National Theatre’s Young Artist Program in Tokyo. Als Pianist und Dirigent ist er bereits an internationalen Opernhäusern und in renommierten Konzerthallen aufgetreten, u.a. am Théâtre de Champs-Élysées, am Gran Teatre del Liceu, in der Carnegie Hall in New York, an der Opéra de Lausanne, der Opéra National du Rhin, der Los Angeles Opera, der Washington National Opera und an der Opera New England sowie am Spoleto Festival in Italien und den USA und am Lake George Opera Festival. Dabei arbeitete er mit Sängerinnen und Sängern wie José Carreras, Marija Jelic, Dolora Zajick, David Lomelí, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Youngok Shin, Mirella Freni, Rockwell Blake, Sondra Radvanovsky, Edita Gruberová, Stephen Costello und Barbara Frittoli zusammen und mit Dirigenten wie beispielsweise Leonard Slatkin, Robert Shaw, Sir Andrew Davis, Claudio Abbado, Richard Bonygne und Sir Colin Davis. Anthony Manoli ist Associate Producer für die Labels Telarc und Naxos.