Gregory Kunde

Gregory Kunde

Gregory Kunde (February 24, 1954, Kankakee, Illinois) is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories.

Kunde studied at the Illinois University and made his debut in 1978, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, as Cassio in "Otello", later singing Prunier in "La rondine", and Vanya in "Kata Kabanova". He appeared at the Opéra de Montréal as Tybalt in "Roméo et Juliette", and as Arturo in "I puritani", opposite Luciana Serra, which revealed his affinity for the bel canto repertory and his impressive upper register. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as des Grieux in Massenet's "Manon".

He won considerable acclaim in Europe in "Les Huguenots", "A Life for the Tsar", and "Anna Bolena", and at the Pesaro Festival in 1992, as Idreno in "Semiramide", and in 1993, as Rinaldo in "Armida", opposite Renée Fleming.

Other notable roles include; "Mitridate, re di Ponto", Rodrigo in "La donna del lago", Arnold in "Guillaume Tell", Ernesto in "Don Pasquale", Nadir in "Les pecheurs de perles", Roméo in "Roméo et Juliette", etc.

He can be heard on disc notably as "Benvenuto Cellini", and as Gérald in "Lakmé", opposite Natalie Dessay.

ources

* "Guide de l'opéra", Roland Mancini & Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, (Fayard, 1995) ISBN 2-213-59567-4


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