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Neil Shicoff Biography
Neil Shicoff (www.shicoff.com) was born in Brooklyn, New
York. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music and with his
father, the celebrated cantor Sidney Shicoff. He made his professional
debut as the title hero in Verdi´s Ernani conducted by James
Levine in CINCINNATI in 1975. As early as 1976, he made his debut
at the METROPOLITAN OPERA as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi conducted
by James Levine.
Internationally recognized as the pre-eminent American tenor
of his generation, Neil Shicoff has appeared at all of the world's
most important opera houses including the METROPOLITAN OPERA,
VIENNA STATE OPERA, LA SCALA, PARIS OPERA, ROYAL OPERA COVENT
GARDEN, BERLIN'S DEUTSCHE OPER, BAVARIAN STATE OPERA, LYRIC OPERA
OF CHICAGO, SAN FRANCISCO OPERA, HAMBURG STATE OPERA, GRAND THEATRE
DE GENEVA, ARENA DI VERONA, NETHERLANDS OPERA, OPERNHAUS ZÜRICH,
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA, SCOTTISH OPERA, SANTA FE OPERA, BARCELONA'S
LICEU, and BUENOS AIRES TEATRO COLON.
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In addition to his operatic
successes, he has sung with the Israel Philharmonic conducted
by Leonard Bernstein, the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Claudio
Abbado, the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Edo de Waart,
and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa. He
has also collaborated with celebrated conductors such as Carlos
Kleiber, Riccardo Muti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, James Levine, Charles
Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Charles Mackerras, Semyon
Bychkov, James Conlon, Antonio Pappano, Carlo Rizzi, Donald Runnicles,
Sylvain Cambreling, Neeme Järvi, and Riccardo Chailly. Known
for his intensely passionate portrayals, Neil Shicoff has appeared
in notable productions by Franco Zeffirelli, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle,
Elijah Moshinsky, Götz Friedrich, Robert Carsen, Andrei
Serban, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Werner Schröter, Lina Wertmüller,
and Harold Prince among others.
You can read more about Neil Shicoff at his official
website.
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