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Over some 40 years, Michael Chance has established an international reputation as performer, teacher and director across a broad spectrum of opera, recital, oratorio and recordings. He has embraced old and new music with equal passion, having notable roles and songs cycles written for him by composers from Harrison Birtwistle, Judith Weir and John Tavener, to Richard Rodney Bennett, Tan Dun ...
English countertenor Michael Chance was born in Buckinghamshire in 1955 and sang as a chorister at St George’s Chapel Windsor before studying at Eton and King’s College Cambridge; he made his professional operatic debut in Cavalli’s Giasone at the Buxton Festival (where he continued to perform regularly until 2014), and international success soon followed with engagements at La Scala ...
Michael Chance, né le 7 mars 1955 à Penn (Buckinghamshire, Angleterre), est un contre-ténor britannique. Carrière [ modifier | modifier le code ] Michael Chance est né à Penn (Buckinghamshire) dans une famille musicienne. Élève de l'école St George, il a commencé à chanter dans la chorale de la Chapelle St George à Windsor Castle.
James Bowman (countertenor), Michael Chance (countertenor), Mark Caudle (viola da gamba) & Robert King (organ) An exultant motet and two canticles are memorably sung. Two solo Lecons are harder to sustain; the third, a duet, is most arresting. Caudle and King's responsive accompaniments is exemplary. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, More….
Michael Chance has established a worldwide reputation as one of the foremost exponents of the male alto voice in all areas of the classical repertoire, and is in equal demand as an opera, concert and recording artist. His vocal training with Rupert Bruce Lockhart followed an English degree at King’s College, Cambridge where he was also a choral scholar.
Michael Chance 2006 als Ganesha an der Bangkok Opera. Michael Chance, CBE (* 7. März 1955 in Penn, Buckinghamshire) ist ein britischer Opernsänger (Countertenor).. Leben. Er studierte am King’s College in Cambridge (1974–1977), danach bei Rupert Bruce-Lockhart.Er startete frühzeitig eine Karriere als Konzertsänger. Beim Buxton Festival 1984 begann er auch als Opernsänger zu arbeiten.
By Michael Chance. Nurture a Rising Star. Not since Thomas Beecham created his own international opera company in 1916, paid for with the proceeds from sales of Beecham’s Powders, has a new UK opera festival of such scale and ambition been born.
