LA
Philharmonic's TRISTAN PROJECT:
Tenor Christian Franz replaces Alan
Woodrow as Tristan April 24 in Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, May 2 and 5
in New York Premiere at Avery Fisher Hall
Tenor Christian Franz will sing the role of Tristan in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's
remaining complete performance of The Tristan Project on April 24 in Walt
Disney Concert Hall, as well as in the New York premiere at Avery Fisher Hall
on May 2 and 5. Franz replaces Alan Woodrow, who has cancelled his appearances
due to illness.
Tenor CHRISTIAN FRANZ studied with Hanno Blaschke at the Munich Music Academy,
with his first professional engagements beginning in 1991. In 1999 Daniel
Barenboim invited him to the Berlin State Opera to perform roles including
Otello, Tristan, Parsifal, and Siegfried. Since 2001 he has been regularly
singing all his Ring cycle roles (Siegmund and both Siegfrieds) at the Vienna
State Opera. He also was Siegfried in Bayreuth between 2001 and 2004. In 2005
he debuted at the most renowned concert festivals in the United States, the
Hollywood Bowl (as Siegfried in Act III of Götterdämmerung) and
the Tanglewood Festival, after which James Levine engaged him to make his
Metropolitan Opera debut as both Siegfrieds in the Met's new Ring cycle in
2009. In 2006 he sang Siegmund and both Siegfrieds in the Vienna State Opera`s
Ring cycle, Parsifal in Hamburg and Budapest, Tristan in Munich, as well as
both Siegfried roles in the first Ring cycle at the Toronto Opera House.
Tickets ($39 - $150) can be purchased online at www.LAPhil.com, or by phone
by calling 323.850.2000. Tickets and information for the New York performance
is available at www.LincolnCenter.org.
Sources: LA Philharmonic & NY Philharmonic
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