IAN GREENLAW

American baritone Ian Greenlaw's prodigious gifts bring him to opera companies and orchestras from coast to coast. In the 2007-2008 season he made his La Scala début as Winston in Lorin Maazel's opera 1984, having, earlier in his career, made his début with the Metropolitan Opera in Poulenc's Les mamelles de Tirésias and returned in Ariadne auf Naxos, Andrea Chénier, Carmen, and The Merry Widow. He has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Britten's War Requiem, to be sung subsequently with the New York Philharmonic. Other engagements include appearances as Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette with Atlanta Opera, Grandfather Clock/Cat in L'enfant et les sortilèges with New York Philharmonic, and Bartók's Cantata Profana with the St. Louis Symphony, with the title rôle in Sam Helfrich's production of Il barbiere di Siviglia at Kentucky Opera and Peter in Hänsel und Gretel at Opera Theatre of St. Louis conducted by Stephen Lord.

DECEMBER 2008