Tenor
Finnish tenor Jorma Silvasti was heard in 2007 season as Laca in Jenùfa at the Metropolitan Opera and Shuysky in Boris Godunov at the Vienna State Opera. He opened the 2007-2008 season at Santa Cecilia in Rome with Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, followed by Steva in Jenufa at the LA Opera, Strasbourg as Floristan in Fidelio and to Helsinki as Max in Der Frieschütz.
Mr. Silvasti will begin his 2010-2011 season performing the role of Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer in Helsinki. In the spring, he will perform the role of Boris in Ka’tá Kabonová at the Opéra de Paris and Helsinki. He will be featured as the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Orchester in Zurich. In the 2009-2010 season he performed the role of Shouysky in Boris Godunov at Vienna State Opera, then on to Helsinki as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Laca in Jenùfa in Vienna, Bayerische Staatsoper, and Madrid Teatro Real, and Antti Pohjalaisia in Helsinki. Also in 2009, Mr. Silvasti performed Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgsinacht with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Maestro Kurt Masur, as well as Mendelssohn’s Elias in Leipzig and the role of Lensky in Eugene Onegin in Helsinki. Mr. Silvasti was the Chairman of the Jury for the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition the same year.
Mr. Silvasti debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 2004 as Boris in Ka’tá Kabonová. He has been heard in recent seasons as Adolar in Weber’s Euryanthe in Amsterdam and Strasbourg, Loge in Das Rheingold at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer at Berlin’s Deutsche Staatsoper, Edmund in the world premiere of Sallinen’s King Lear and the title role of Peter Grimes in Helsinki, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte in Toulouse, and Laca in Jenùfa at Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera and in Toulouse. Also sang Erik and Loge at the Bayreuth Festival, Erik at the Hamburg State Opera, Max in Der Freischütz at the New Israeli Opera and Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the title roles of Idomeneo and Parsifal in Brussels, and Jeník in The Bartered Bride at Covent Garden.
His recordings include Jenùfa under the baton of Bernard Haitink with Karita Mattila, Jerry Hadley and Anja Silja with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra on the Erato label, Das Lied von der Erde with the Lahti Chamber Ensemble under the baton of Osmo Vanska recorded under BIS (Sweden) and Sibelius' The Tempest with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste on the Ondine label.
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