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Robert
W. Overman
Baritone | Click Here for repertoire
A native of
North Carolina, Robert received his musical training at UNC-Greensboro
and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. While a student
at UNC-G, Robert was first-place winner of the National Metropolitan
Opera Auditions in New York City. Concerts at Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church in New York City, as well as in West Palm
Beach and Palm Beach, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, and at List Hall
in Lincoln Center, under the auspices of the Metropolitan Opera
National Council, followed.
In 1985, Robert
became principal baritone for the Landestheater in Salzburg, Austria
and made his debut in the role of “Scarpia” in Puccini’s Tosca
in Salzburg’s Grosses Festspielhaus. In 1986, he debuted
in the renowned Salzburg Festival in the title role of a work
commissioned by the festival, Fürst von Salzburg Wolf Dietrich.
A contract
as principal baritone in Karlsruhe, Germany followed, where he
sang leading roles in such operas as: Don Giovanni, La Bohème,
Lucia di Lammermoor, Iphigenie auf Tauris, Madama Butterfly, Il
Trovatore, La Forza del Destino, La Traviata, Le Nozze di Figaro,
Rigoletto and Nabucco.
Robert was then
engaged as principal baritone in the International Opera house in
Bonn, Germany, where he sang leading roles opposite such world-renowned
singers as Katia Ricciarelli, Giuseppe Giacomini, Barbara Daniels,
Vladimir Atlantov, Waltraud Meier, Eva Lind, Julia Varady, Eva Marton,
Sherrill Milnes and Placido Domingo. He covered baritone idols
Milnes, Justino Diaz, Piero Cappuccilli, Renato Bruson and Leo Nucci
and performed leading roles in such works as Tosca, Le Villi,
Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliaci, Il Tabarro, La Fanciulla del West,
Das Rheingold, Romeo et Juliette, Carmen, Manon Lescaut, La Rondine
and Otello.
Robert
has performed in concert and opera in Vienna, Zürich, Bern, Basel,
Strassbourg, Nice, Montpellier, Warsaw, Reggio Emelia, Torino,
Luxembourg, Heidelberg, Nüremberg, Leipzig, Weimar, Aachen, Freiburg,
Stuttgart, Weisbaden, Kiel, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, and Munich,
as well as Houston, San Francisco, and New York. He also
appeared as baritone soloist with numerous European and American
Symphonies, including the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg, the
Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, the Beethovenhalle Orchestra
in Bonn, the Kölner Philharmonic in Cologne, the Greensboro Symphony,
the Winston-Salem Symphony and the Houston Symphony, where he
sang Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht,
with conductor Helmut Rilling.
Most recently,
Robert has been heard in Piedmont Opera Theatre’s Tosca,
La Traviata in Tampa Florida, in Piedmont Opera’s Madama
Butterfly, and Greensboro Opera’s Un Ballo in Maschera.
Upcoming engagements include the title role in Gianni Schicchi
and “Tonio” in Pagliacci for Fresno Opera.
Currently
Vocal Artist-in-Residence and Director of Vocal Studies for Greensboro
College where he teaches voice and coaches operatic and musical
roles, he resides in Clemmons, NC with his wife Rhonda Overman
and their daughters Jenny and Mary.
Repertoire
| Verdi:
|
Nabucco
Rigoletto
Il Trovatore
La traviata
Otello
La Forza del Destino
Un Ballo in Maschera |
Nabucco
Rigoletto
Luna
Germont
Iago
Don Carlos
Renato |
| Puccini: |
Tosca
La Fanciulla del West
Manon Lescaut
Madama Butterfly
La Rondine
La bohème
Il Tabarro
Le Villi
Gianni Schicchi
|
Scarpia
Rance
Lescaut
Sharpless
Rambaldo
Marcello
Michele
Guglielmo
Schicchi |
| Donizetti: |
Lucia
di Lammermoor |
Enrico |
| Leoncavallo: |
Pagliacci |
Tonio |
| Mascagni: |
Cavalleria
Rusticana |
Alfio |
| Gomez: |
Il Guarany |
Gonzales |
| Mozart: |
Die
Zauberflöte
Le nozze di Figaro
Don Giovanni
|
Sprecher
Almaviva (in German)
Giovanni |
| Bizet: |
Carmen |
Escamillio |
| Gounod: |
Romeo
et Juliette |
Capulet |
| Saint-Saëns: |
Samson
et Dalila |
Abimelech |
| Gluck: |
Iphigenie
auf Tauris |
Orestes
(in German) |
| Prokovieff: |
War and
Peace |
Andrei
(in German) |
| Tchaikowsky: |
Eugen
Onegin |
Onegin
(in German) |
| Beethoven: |
Fidelio |
Fernando |
| Wagner: |
Das Rheingold |
Donner |
| Moore:
|
The Ballad
of Baby Doe |
Tabor |
Roles
in preparation: |
| Verdi: |
Don Carlos |
Posa |
| |
Aida |
Amonasro |
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