Jason Detwiler
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Baritone
Jason Detwiler (born 1975, California) is an American opera singer.
Since 2000, Mr. Detwiler has sung over thirty lead roles with regional companies throughout the US.
From 2002-2006, he was a Principal Artist with Opera San Jose
where he sang in sixteen productions ranging from lyric to dramatic repertoire. Since leaving Opera San Jose, Mr. Detwiler has sung with San Diego Opera, Virginia Opera, Syracuse Opera, Shreveport Opera, Spokane Opera,Rimrock Opera, Opera Idaho, Opera Coeur d'Alene, West Bay Opera, and Trinity Lyric Opera.
Favoring Mozart, Bel Canto and French roles, his voice and acting have been described as "richly expressive", "emotionally engaging", with a "commanding stage presence".
• Guglielmo (Così fan tutte
)
• Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro)
• Malatesta (Don Pasquale
)
• Belcore (L'elisir d'amore
)
• Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
• Valentin (Faust
)
• Zurga (Les Pechêurs de Perles)
• Riccardo (I Puritani
)
• Yeletsky (Pique Dame)
• Onegin (Eugene Onegin
)
• Pilgrim (The Pilgrim's Progress
)
• Sharpless (Madama Butterfly
)
• Ford (Falstaff
)
• John Proctor (The Crucible
)
Baritone
Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...
Jason Detwiler (born 1975, California) is an American opera singer.
Since 2000, Mr. Detwiler has sung over thirty lead roles with regional companies throughout the US.
From 2002-2006, he was a Principal Artist with Opera San Jose
Opera San Jose
Opera San José is the professional opera company in San Jose, California, United States, founded in 1984 by Irene Dalis. In 1988, it formed a resident company of principal artists, for which it has purchased fourteen apartment units to provide rent-free accommodation...
where he sang in sixteen productions ranging from lyric to dramatic repertoire. Since leaving Opera San Jose, Mr. Detwiler has sung with San Diego Opera, Virginia Opera, Syracuse Opera, Shreveport Opera, Spokane Opera,Rimrock Opera, Opera Idaho, Opera Coeur d'Alene, West Bay Opera, and Trinity Lyric Opera.
Favoring Mozart, Bel Canto and French roles, his voice and acting have been described as "richly expressive", "emotionally engaging", with a "commanding stage presence".
Engagements 2010-2011
| Role | Work | Company | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soloist | Handel's Messiah | Boise Philharmonic | 2010 |
| Silvio | I Pagliacci | Sonoma City Opera | 2010 |
| Mr. Webb | Our Town | Opera Idaho | 2010 |
| Melchior | Amahl and the Night Visitors | Opera Idaho | 2010 |
| Sharpless | Madama Butterfly | Opera Idaho | 2011 |
Main roles
• Papageno (Die Zauberflöte)• Guglielmo (Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti K. 588, is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed in 1790. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte....
)
• Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro)
• Malatesta (Don Pasquale
Don Pasquale
Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The librettist Giovanni Ruffini wrote the Italian language libretto after Angelo Anelli's libretto for Stefano Pavesi's Ser Marcantonio ....
)
• Belcore (L'elisir d'amore
L'elisir d'amore
L'elisir d'amore is an opera by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. It is a melodramma giocoso in two acts...
)
• Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
• Valentin (Faust
Faust (opera)
Faust is a drame lyrique in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1...
)
• Zurga (Les Pechêurs de Perles)
• Riccardo (I Puritani
I puritani
I puritani is an opera in three acts by Vincenzo Bellini. It was his last opera. Its libretto is by Count Carlo Pepoli, based on Têtes rondes et Cavaliers by Jacques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on Walter Scott's novel Old Mortality. It was first produced at...
)
• Yeletsky (Pique Dame)
• Onegin (Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin (opera)
Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, is an opera in 3 acts , by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer and his brother Modest, and is based on the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin....
)
• Pilgrim (The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been...
)
• Sharpless (Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco...
)
• Ford (Falstaff
Falstaff (opera)
Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV. It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's ninth decade, and only the second of his 26 operas to be a comedy...
)
• John Proctor (The Crucible
The Crucible (opera)
The Crucible is an English language opera written by Robert Ward based on the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. It won both the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Music Critics Circle Citation. The libretto was lightly adapted from Miller's text by Bernard Stambler.Ward received a...
)
In concert
- St. John's Passion (BachBạchBạch is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Bai in Chinese and Baek, in Korean.Bach is the anglicized variation of the surname Bạch.-Notable people with the surname Bạch:* Bạch Liêu...
) - Messiah (HandelHANDELHANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
) - Requiem (Mozart)
- Requiem (FauréFaureFaure or Fauré is a French family name and may refer to:People:* Edgar Faure, French politician* Élie Faure, French art historian and essayist* Émile Alphonse Faure, lead battery pioneer* Cédric Fauré, French football striker...
) - Ninth Symphony (Beethoven)
- Christmas Oratorio (Saint-Saëns)
- Voices of Light (EinhornEinhornEinhorn—German for unicorn—may refer to:*Alfred Einhorn , biochemist, inventor of Novocain*David Einhorn *David Einhorn *Eddie Einhorn, a part owner of the Chicago White Sox baseball team...
)
External links
- www.operasj.org Opera San Jose Biography
- www.jasondetwiler.net/www.detwileropera.com Official Website