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Mr Gilfry has devoted his entire 2009/10 Season to the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein. He currently stars as Emile de Becque in the U.S. National Tour of the Lincoln Center Production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, a production that garnered 7 Tony Awards in 2008. In December, he also appeared as Captain von Trapp in the Théâtre du Châtelet production of The Sound of Music in Paris, with his daughter Carin Gilfry playing the part of his daughter Liesl. The 2008/09 Season saw Mr. Gilfry in concert as Sam in Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in Munich, an appearance at New York's Carnegie Zankel Hall in an all-Bernstein recital with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, song recitals in the California cities of Claremont, La Jolla, San Luis Obispo Santa Monica and Santa Rosa, and in Sedona, Arizona. He was Captain Balstrode in Peter Grimes in San Diego, Lancelot in Camelot at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, and he appeared as Sam in Trouble in Tahiti in Munich again, but this time in a staged production at the Bavarian State Opera with conductor Kent Nagano. Other notable appearances include Doktor Faust, Busoni's Doktor Faust (San Francisco Opera); Billy Budd, Britten's Billy Budd (Geneva, Paris, London, Dallas, Los Angeles); Don Giovanni, Mozart's Don Giovanni (Los Angeles, Zürich, Lyon, London, Parma, Dallas, Minneapolis, Amsterdam); Danilo, Lehar's The Merry Widow (Los Angeles, Zürich, San Francisco, Dallas); Robert Storch, Strauss's Intermezzo, (Zurich). Mr. Gilfry is an Assistant Professor of Vocal Arts at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he teaches between out of town engagements. |
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Gilfry, two-time Grammy nominee, singer and actor, has performed in all
the world's music capitals. His most recent Grammy nomination was for
his 2008 performance in the title role of Messiaen's monumental opera
Saint François d'Assise in Amsterdam. Best-known as an
opera singer, he is also an acclaimed recitalist and concert artist, and
appears frequently in musical theater classics. His discography of 28
audio and video recordings includes the DVD and CD of his one-man show
My Heart is So Full of You. His radio program, Opera Notes on
Air, aired on K-Mozart 105.1 FM in Los Angeles for over three years.
With a 74-role repertoire, Mr. Gilfry sings music from the Baroque to
that composed expressly for him. He was brought to worldwide attention
when he created the role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1998 premiere of
André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire at the San
Francisco Opera with Renée Fleming. Other world premieres:
Nicholas, Deborah Drattel's Nicholas and Alexandra (Los Angeles,
opposite Placido Domingo); Nathan, Nicholas Maw's Sophie's Choice
(London, Washington D.C.); Jack London, Libby Larsen's Every Man
Jack (Sonoma, CA); Edward Gaines, Richard Danielpour's Margaret
Garner (Detroit, Cincinnati, Philadelphia). He will create his sixth
world premiere in Zürich in October 2010 in the title role of
Gesualdo, by Marc-André Dalbavie. Other future projects
include performances as Lyndon Baines Johnson in August 4th, 1964
by Steven Stucky in Dallas and at Carnegie Hall with the Dallas
Symphony, and the title role in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the
Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.