“Oper ist “das Coolste”, das es gibt” – Die Presse interview
Brian Jagde sings on the world's leading stages. Soon the US tenor will be heard again in Vienna, where he feels particularly loved.
Brian Jagde sings on the world's leading stages. Soon the US tenor will be heard again in Vienna, where he feels particularly loved.
Opera expert Fred Plotkin speaks with tenor Brian Jagde on IDAGIO.
Those operas and others vanished with the final eight weeks of the Met’s season. So we asked some of the singers who had been waiting years to perform them to give us some musical phrases that they — and we — lost. Here are their voices, and edited excerpts from the conversation
Seattle Weekly called him a “heroic, Italian-style tenor to the marrow,” declaring his voice, “bold, bright, resonant and effortlessly hall-filling.” He’s easily among the top tenors on the operatic stage today with a voice that is expansive, powerful and full of color and depth. New York City native Brian Jagde is a supernova among the celestial bodies swirling about the operatic universe today.
The first thing to know about Brian Jagde is that his name is pronounced "Jade," like the jewel. He is definitely sparkling, in personality and in talent. Though the prizewinning tenor's earlier education included computer science and business, Jagde seemed destined to be an opera singer.
It was quite a year for American Brian Jagde as he solidified his status as one of the most acclaimed spinto tenors of his generations, debuting five roles in one year.