Age: 30
This season, Theodore Platt joined the ensemble of the Copenhagen Opera House where his roles include Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Lord Cecil in Maria Stuarda, and Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia. Highlights of his concert season include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg and the release of an online recital with pianist Keval Shah for Deutsche Grammophon STAGE+. Theodore Platt was a recent member of the Bayerische Staatsoper’s Opera Studio, during which he was awarded the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellowship.
Recent roles include Belcore in L’elisir d’amore at Glyndebourne and the title role in Guillaume Tell at Theater St. Gallen. On the concert stage, Platt gave recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Oxford International Song Festival, and the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki. He returned to “Mozart Week” in Salzburg with the Vienna Philharmonic and maestro Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
Theodore studied at St John’s College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Music, London, and participated in the Verbier Festival Academy and the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie.
Principal Teachers
- Russell Smythe
- John Norris
Major Competitions
- 1st prize, International Art Song Competition Stuttgart, 2022
- 2nd prize, Kathleen Ferrier Awards, 2019
- 2nd prize, Copenhagen Lied-Duo Competition, 2019
PROGRAMME
FIRST ROUND: ARIA
GAETANO DONIZETTI Bella siccome un angelo
(Don Pasquale)
GEORGE BENJAMIN Parth Three: The Protector and Agnès – Scene XII
(Written On Skin)
RICHARD WAGNER Wie Todesahnung, Dämmrung deckt die Lande… O Du, Mein Holder Abendstern
(Tannhäuser)
FIRST ROUND: ART SONG
ROBERT SCHUMANN Entflieh mit mir
(Tragödie, op. 64)
ROBERT SCHUMANN Der Schatzgräber
(Romanzen und Balladen, vol. I, op. 45)
REYNALDO HAHN Offrande
VIVIAN FUNG Come With Me And Play · With That Voice · When the Peonies Bloomed
(Six Haiku)
SERGEI RACHMANINOV O nyet, molyu, ne ukhodi!
(Chest’ romansov, op. 4)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN The Salley Gardens
(Folk Song Arrangements, vol. I)
ART SONG PRIZE FINAL
FRANZ SCHUBERT Auf der Donau · Abendstern
FRANCIS POULENC Rayon des yeux… · Le matin les branches attisent… · Tout disparut… · Dans les ténèbres du jardin… · Unis la fraîcheur et le feu… · Homme au sourire tendre… · La grande rivière qui va…
(La fraîcheur et le feu)
GEORGE BUTTERWORTH The Lads in their Hundreds
(Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad)
H. LESLIE ADAMS Prayer
(Nightsongs)
SEMIFINAL
GIOACHINO ROSSINI Come un’ape ne giorni d’aprile
(La Cenerentola)
FELIX MENDELSSOHN It is Enough! O Lord, Now Take Away My Life
(Elijah)
ERICH KORNGOLD Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen
(Die tote Stadt)
FINAL
AMBROISE THOMAS O vin, dissipe la tristesse
(Hamlet)
GUSTAV MAHLER Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft
(Rückert-Lieder)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Ja vas lyublyu
(Pikovaya dama)
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