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10/09/2010
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| Bruce Ford |
Tenor Bruce Ford is firmly established as one of today’s most outstanding singers. He has earned high praise for extraordinary vocal beauty and range, textual vividness, authoritative style and technical prowess.
He has recorded seventeen full-length operas for Opera Rara, including Otello, Ricciardo e Zoraide, Rosmonda d’Inghilterra, Maria Regina d’Inghilterra, Pia de Tolomei, to name but a few. In addition, Opera Rara have issued a recital disc, Romantic Heroes, featuring Bruce, as well as a compilation entitled ‘Bruce Ford-Serious Rossini’. He also appears on many of the discs in the ‘Il Salotto’ series.
Born in the USA, he has spent most of his 22 year long career in the leading opera houses of Europe and America. After his highly acclaimed debut at Pesaro in 1990, he has sung at Covent Garden (Almaviva, Ferrando, Mitridate, Osiride, Tito), La Scala (Uberto in La Donna del Lago and Paolo Erisso in Maometto II), The Metropolitan Opera (Almaviva), the Paris Opera (Ferrando, Almaviva, Lindoro) and the Glyndebourne, Florence, Edinburgh and Salzburg Festivals. He has sung under Claudio Abbado, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Ricardo Muti, Ivor Bolton, Alberto Zedda, and numerous other well-known conductors.
Bruce Ford will be performing a recital at Grange Park Opera on 2nd July 2006. For future details click on the link to Grange Park Opera from the About Us page on this site.
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Full-length opera - Medea in Corinto
Jane Eaglen is incisive, hard-hitting and tender - JULIAN BUDDEN, Opera
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Full-length opera - Rosmonda d’Inghilterra
The performance could hardly be improved - JOHN STEANE, Gramophone
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Full-length opera - Maria de Rudenz
The blood and thunder ensembles and duets create a swift moving rip-roaring bel canto feast - The Tribune, San Francisco
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Full-length opera - Zoraida di Granata
...a major discovery. - MICHAEL OLIVER, Classic M Magazine.
Majella Cullagh’s Zoraida has a lovely, keenly produced soprano .. used to fine effect - ALAN BLYTHE Gramophone.
The world premiere recording
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Full-length opera - Carlo di Borgogna
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Full-length opera - Elisabetta regina dInghilterra
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Recent releases - Emma d’Antiochia
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New release - Zelmira
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Elvida
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Pia de’ Tolomei
Nello della Pietra - Roberto Servile, Pia de’ Tolomei - Majella Cullagh, Rodrigo de’ Tolomei - Manuela Custer, Ghino degli Armieri - Bruce Ford, Piero - Mirco Palazzi, Bice - Patrizia Biccire, Lamberto - Marco Vinco, Ubaldo - Mark Wilde, The Keeper of the Tower of Siena - Christopher Turner. Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Parry
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Rossini - Adelaide di Borgogna
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Anthologies - A Hundred Years of Italian Opera 1820-1830
A privileged glimpse into a forgotten world - JOHN FREEMAN, Opera News
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Collections - The Cruel Madness of Love
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Villains by Necessity
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Sceptre, Crown and Scaffold
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Collections - Bruce Ford, Romantic Heroes
Bruce Ford has few equals today in this kind of music.- CHARLES OSBORNE, Gramophone
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Rossini - Rossini Three Tenors
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Collections - The Opera Rara Collection - Volume 1
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Il Salotto - Il Salotto - Volume 1 - Les Soirees Italiennes
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Il Salotto - Il Salotto - Volume 2 : La Potenza dAmore
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Collections - The Opera Rara Collection - Volume 2
A feast and a temptation to the ears - DAVID JOHNSON, Fanfare
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Rossini - Bruce Ford Serious Rossini
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Meyerbeer - Meyerbeer in Italy
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Il Salotto - Il Salotto Vol 5 - La Rimembranza
This is light music of the highest quality, delivered with unfailing verve and panache. - George Hall, Opera Now, March 2003
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Mercadante - Zaira
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Il Salotto - Il Salotto Vol 6 - La Partenza
Everyone here is in top form (would they dare be otherwise for Opera Rara?) - American Record Guide
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Donizetti - The Young Donizetti
Rarities for the true opera lover. ROBERT LEVINE, Classicstoday.com
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Il Salotto Vol 7 - Il primo dolce affanno
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Notturno (Il Salotto Volume 8)
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