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Born: USA ?
The American (?) bass Gregory Reinhart received his training at the New England Conservatory in Boston and then came to Europe.
There he made his dbut in 1981 at the Opéra du Nord Tourcoing in the title role of the opera Il Re Teodoro by A. Salieri. In 1982 he made guest appearance at the Festival of Former Times Music in Innsbruck as a yard philosopher in the Baroque opera Oronte by Cesti; in 1987 as Feraspe in Semiramide by the same composer. At the Opera House of Nancy he sang the King of Scotland in 1983 in the first French performance of Händel’s Ariodante; in 1984 at the Opéra Comique Paris role of the Arnold in the first French performance of the contemporary opera The English Cat by H.W. Henze. At the Festival of Pesaro he took over in 1984 the role of the Governor in Le Comte Ory by Rossini, a role, which he repeated then at different French stages. In 1985 he was at the National Theatre of Karlsruhe as a guest; in 1985-1986 at the Théâtre of Champs Élysées Paris, among other things in Ariodante. He sang King Henry VIII in 1986 at the Opera of Nice. in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena and was to be found there from 1986 to 1988 as a guest. In 1985 he appeared at the Theatre of Lausanne, in 1987 at the Opera of Lyon (in Le Comte Ory). At the Festival of Aix-en-Provence he worked in 1986 as Ismenor in Tancrède by Campra, in 1989 as Tchelio in L'Amour des trois oranges by Prokofieff, in 1995 as a Governor in Le Comte Ory by Rossini, and in 1988 he sang at the Teatro Fenice Venice and at the Opera House of Toulouse (including in Le Comte Ory). In London he could be heard in 1988 in concertant performance of Monteverdi’s Incoronazione di Poppea and Moses und Aron by Arnold Schoenberg; in 1989-1990 at the Théâtre Châtelet Paris and in 1990 at the Grand Théâtre Geneva (Melisso in Alcina by Händel). In 1987 he participated at the Opera of Nice in the premiere of the opera Secondetta by A. Bruni Tedeschi. In the initialization of the Opéra Bastille Paris he sang in March 1990 Panthée in Les Troyens by Berlioz; in 1992 in Santa Fé the Commendatore in Don Giovanni; in 1993 in Nice in Tristan; in 1994 Titurel in Parsifal, in Toulouse Claggart in Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten. He appeared in 1993 at the Händel Festival in Halle/Saale as Zoroastre in Händel’s Orlando.
His repertoire for the stage includes also Lord Robinson in Cimarosa’s Matrimonio segreto, Seneca in L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Bellone and Huascar in Les Indes galantes by Rameau and Douglas in La Donna del lago by Rossini. As concert as as oratorio soloist he took an important position among the artists of his generation, whereby he is particularly considered as a great interpreter of Baroque vocal works.
Recordings: CBS (among other things Tamerlano by Händel, Mozart’s Requiem), Erato (Tancrède by Campra), Harmonia Mundi (Zoroastre by Rameau), Virgin Classics (Amour des trois oranges, Incoronazione di Poppea), RCA (Messiah, Madrigals of Monteverdi), HMV-Electrola (Peasant (BWV 212) and Coffee (BWV 211) Cantatas by J.S. Bach), PV-Records (Les Paladins by Rameau), Disques Montaigne (Alceste by Lully).
Source: Operissimo Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (August 2001)
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