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Anton Belov, Baritone
June 2008 Since winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2002, baritone Anton Belov has expanded his career to reach major opera houses and concert halls across the United States. The Washington Post hailed his “voluminous sound, appealing stage presence and a tone of rich vibrancy that remained consistent at all dynamic levels,” while The New York Sun was impressed with his “authority – technical, musical, dramatic – that was almost frightening.” Opera News praised his “great emotional honesty; singing straight from the heart” and the Philadelphia Inquirer concludes that Belov “has the voice of an emerging star.” 2008/09 will see Belov’s return to the Anchorage Opera, this time as Escamillo in Carmen before portraying the title role in a staged production of Le nozze di Figaro with the Helena Symphony. He is also slated to perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Kalamazoo Symphony and join the annual Johnstown Symphony gala in a program of operatic arias. Engagements for 2007/08 included the Boston premiere of Oswaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar with Opera Boston, his portrayal of Count di Luna in Il trovatore with Anchorage Opera, excerpts from Gian Carlo Menotti’s Consul at Chicago Chamber Opera and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with the Pioneer Valley Symphony. He also sang Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall with the Peniel Concert Choir and gave a recital under the auspices of New York Festival of Songs. Belov’s recent operatic performances include the title role in Delaware Opera’s production of Don Giovanni, Masetto with Boston Baroque, John Sorel in The Consul (Menotti) with Opera Boston and Chamber Opera of Chicago, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and Ping in Turandotwith the New Jersey Opera Theater, Malatesta in Don Pasquale with Opera Providence, and Elijah with the Worcester Festival Chorus. Anton Belov is the first-place winner of eight vocal competitions including the George London Competition, Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Competition, and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Eastern Regional Winner) as well as the second-place winner of the Classical Singer Magazine Competition. As the winner of Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Belov has appeared in over 40 recitals throughout the United States. A native of Moscow, Anton Belov holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from The New England Conservatory, an Artist’s Diploma and a Master of Music Degree from The Juilliard School. A specialist in Russian lyric diction, he is the author of Russian Opera Libretti in Word-to-Word Translation and IPA Transcription and the Anthology of Russian Arias (Leyerle Publications 2004-06).
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