VT Faculty Recital: Robert Chafin, Tenor
Venue: Squires Recital Salon, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free
Description:
The Virginia Tech Department of Music presents a Faculty Recital featuring tenor Robert Chafin on Saturday, May 4th in the Squires Recital Salon.

Robert Chafin was born in Christiansburg, Va., and graduated with bachelor and master of music degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He debuted in Europe in La bohème and then received ensemble engagements with the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, followed by the State Theater of Freiburg and then with the State Opera of Hannover in Germany.

Internationally acclaimed as a Mozart and Rossini tenor, Chafin has branched out into more heroic repetoire, in roles including Apollo (Daphne), Max (Der Freischütz), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), Midas (Die Liebe der Danae), Enée (Les troyens), Don José (Carmen), Laca (Jenufa), Menelas (Die Ägyptische Helena) and the title roles in Don Carlo, Idomeneo, and Les contes d'Hoffmann. Chafin has guested in these and other roles in opera companies in New York (NYCOpera and Carnegie Hall), Salzburg Summer Festival, Stockholm, Vienna, Frankfurt, Strasbourg, Leipzig, Brüssels, Helsinki, and Berlin (Deutsche Oper and Philarmonie). He has internationally recognized recordings of the operas of Schreker (Flammen and Christophorus), Richard Strauss (Die Liebe der Danae), Bernstein (Candide), Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Stravinsky songs, and the Hindemith Oratorio (Das Unafuhörliche) for compact disc and television productions.

Also at home on the concert stage, Chafin has appeared throughout Europe, the United States, and Israel with leading conductors and musical directors like Riccardo Muti, Marc Albrecht, Donald Runnicles, Andrew Litton, Fréderic Chaslin, Markus Stenz, Michel Plasson, Gary Bertini, Nicolas McGegan, Stefan Anton Reck, Edo de Waart, René Jacobs, Eve Queler, and Alberto Zedda.

For more information, visit: http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/chafin/

This recital is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit: http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/

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