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The Americam tenor, Charles Workman, is a graduate of the Juilliard School.
Charles Workman made his professional debut as Albert in Albert Herring with the Canadian Opera Company in 1991 and for three seasons he was a member of the Metropolitan Opera, debuting as Elemer opposite Kiri Te Kanawa’s Arabella. In 1995 he moved to London and began to work primarily in Europe where, following his debuts as Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the English National Opera, Agorante in Ricciardo e Zoraide at the Rossini Opera Festival and Renaud in Gluck’s Armide in Nice, he was quickly established as a leading exponent of Mozart, Rossini and French opera.
In 1999 Charles Workman made a critically acclaimed debut with the Salzburg Festival as Abaris in Rameau’s Les Boréades under the guidance of Simon Rattle and also debuted with the Berlin Philarmonic under Claudio Abbado in J.S. Bach’s B Minor Mass (BWV 232) in Berlin and at the Salzburg Easter Festival.
In 1999-2000 season Charles Workman sang in Così fan tutte at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago and in Ferrara, in Monteverdi’s Orfeo (title role) at the Bayerische Staatsoper, in Die Zauberflöte (Tamino) at the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon and in Il viaggio a Reims (Cavalier Belfiore) in La Coruna. He subsequently returned to Salzburg to perform in Don Giovanni and in Tristan und Isolde, sang Anacreon at the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Il sogno di Scipione in Montreux, Die Fledermaus (Eisenstein), Don Giovanni and La clemenza di Tito at the Opéra National de Paris and Il barbiere di Siviglia (Conte d’Almaviva) at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées de Paris. He has just obtained great success singing in La Cenerentola at the Teatro alla Scala and in La donna del lago (Rodrigo) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, and made his debuts at the Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona with Henry VIII and at the Teatro Reál in Madrid with Così fan tutte.
Charles Workman has performed in many of the world’s leading opera houses and orchestras in numerous roles by Rossini and Mozart, including the Teatro La Fenice in Venezia, the Teatro San Carlo in Napoli, the New York City Opera, the Opéra de Lyon, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Welsh National Opera and has also appeared as Alamar in Donizetti’s Alahor en Granata at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, as Fenton in Falstaff for ENO, as Goffredo in Rinaldo in Geneva, as Jupiter in Semele at the Flanders Opera and in the world première of Alexandra Harwood’s The Happy Prince at the St. John’s Smith Square in London.
Highlights of his recent engagements included Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio) at the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels, Il viaggio a Reims (Cavalier Belfiore) and La clemenza di Tito (Tito) at the Festival Mozart di La Coruña, La rondine at the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden in London, Oberon at the Théâtre du Châtelet de Paris and in London with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Idomeneo at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and in Ancona, Tancredi in Trieste and on a tour to Japan. On the concert side, he sang Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts at the Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona and Händel’s Messiah with the Fundacio La Caixa in Barcelona.
Future engagements (as for 2005) include the title role in La Clemenza di Tito at Geneva Opera and d'Assise, and Love for Three Oranges at Opéra National de Paris.
Charles Workman's discography include Gluck’s Armide, Georges Bizet’s La jolie fille de Perth and Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon, as well as a video release of Arabella from the Metropolitan. |
