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Kristian Benedikt - Otello
Internationally appreciated, Kristian Benedikt began his career at the
Lithuanian National Opera in Vilnius, where he made his debut as Alfredo (Traviata),
Tito (Clemenza di Tito) Nemorino (Elisir d’amore), Don Ottavio (Don
Giovanni), Lensky (Eugene Onegin). In 2002 he recorded Ponchielli’s La
Gioconda beside Placido Domingo, Viotti conducting and in 2004 he made his
debut in Don Carlos in Antwerp, Chailly conducting. In the past seasons
Mr. Benedikt also starred: Hoffmann (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Cavaradossi
(Tosca), Duca (Rigoletto), Manrico (Trovatore) Eléazar (La
Juive), Turiddu (Cavalleria Rusticana), Calaf (Turandot),
Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Siegmund (Die Walküre), Dick
Johnson (Fanciulla del West) and Don José (Carmen). More recently he
sang: Calaf in Turandot in Seoul, Stockholm and Lodz; Die Walküre
with Odense Symfoniorkester in Danmark; Samson et Dalila in
St.Petersburg and Beijing; Otello in Beirut, Montreal, Modena and
Cagliari.
Future plans: Samson
et Dalila (Samson) and Pagliacci (Canio) at Teatro Regio in Turin; Die
Walküre in Odense; Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in
Aarhus.
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