Jeremy Blossey - Tenor

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Jeremy Blossey Biography

Jeremy_Blossey_01 Lyric tenor Jeremy Blossey enjoys an international operatic career that has taken him all over North America, Asia, Europe and the Pacific.  His career has included performances of over 50 roles, recently including the title role in Werther, Don Jose in Carmen, Manrico in Il Trovatore, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Nemorino in L’Elisir D’Amore, Camille in The Merry Widow, The Governor in Candide, Alfredo in La Traviata, Male Chorus in Rape of Lucretia, Frederic in Pirates of Penzance, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Sam Polk in Susannah, Sam Kaplan in Street Scene, Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, and Romeo in Romeo et Juliette. Recent appearances include roles with Opera de Quebec, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Opera Delaware, Baltimore Concert Opera, Shreveport Opera, Opera Hamilton, Opera on the Avalon, IVAI Tel Aviv, Opera Cleveland, and Heartland Opera.

Recent highlighted performances included a week-long collaboration with legendary American composer Carlisle Floyd, interpreting the role of Sam Polk in Susannah, which was followed by a performance of the role in the opera’s Israeli debut.

On the concert stage, Mr. Blossey most recently appeared as tenor soloist in concerts at Teatro Real and the Auditorio Nacionale in Madrid.  Other recent solo engagements include concerts at the Israeli Opera House and the Opera House in Aschaffenburg, Germany, Haydn’s Creation at the Great Auditorium at Ocean Grove, NJ, the Verdi Requiem with the Plainfield Symphony and the Theater Chamber Players at the renowned Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Earlier appearances include tenor solos in the Messiah with the U.S. Naval Academy and Serenade to Music by Vaughan Williams with the Honolulu Symphony. Jeremy also appeared onstage with 6-time Grammy award winning band The Chieftains at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J.

Upcoming engagements at Nickle City Opera and Quisisana Resort in Lovell, ME.

Repertoire

Operatic

Bernstein

  • Candide — Candide
  • Governor — Candide
  • Vanderdendur — Candide

Bizet

  • Don Jose — Carmen

Britten

  • Male Chorus — Rape of Lucretia
  • Peter Grimes — Peter Grimes

Donizetti

  • Nemorino — L’elisir d’amore
  • Edgardo –Lucia di Lammermoor
  • Arturo — Lucia di Lammermoor

Floyd

  • Sam — Susannah

Gounod

  • Faust — Faust
  • Romeo — Romeo et Juliette

Lehar

  • Camille — Die lustige Witwe

Massenet

  • Des Grieux — Manon
  • Werther — Werther

Mozart

  • Ferrando — Cosi fan tutte
  • Tito — La clemenza di Tito

Offenbach

  • Hoffmann — Les Contes D’Hoffmann
  • Nathanael — Les Contes D’Hoffmann
  • Spalanzani — Les Contes D’Hoffmann

Puccini

  • Rodolfo — La Boheme
  • Pinkerton — Madama Butterfly
  • Cavaradossi — Tosca
  • Luigi — Il tabarro
  • Rinuccio — Gianni Schicchi

Sondheim

  • Signor Pirelli — Sweeney Todd

Strauss

  • Narraboth — Salome
  • Tanzmeister — Ariadne auf Naxos
  • Brighella — Ariadne auf Naxos

Verdi

  • Alvaro — La forza del destino
  • Duke — Rigoletto
  • Alfredo — La Traviata
  • Manrico — Il trovatore
  • Don Carlo — Don Carlo
  • Gustavo III — Un ballo in maschera

Weill

  • Sam Kaplan — Street Scene

 

Orchestral

Bach

  • Christmas Oratorio
  • Magnificat

Beethoven

  • Mass in C
  • Choral Fantasy
  • 9th Symphony

Britten

  • Canticle II (Abraham & Issac)

Dvorak

  • Stabat Mater

Handel

  • Messiah
  • Dixit Domine

Haydn

  •   St. Nicholas Mass
  • Lord Nelson Mass
  • Creation

Mendelssohn

  • Lobgesang
  • Elijah

Mozart

  • Requiem
  • Coronation Mass
  • Missa Brevis Bb
  • Vespers

Schubert

  • Mass in G
  • Mass in A-flat

Vaughan Williams

  • Serenade to Music

Verdi

  • Requiem

Reviews

“(As unforgettable highlights one takes Blosseys divinely sung arias Nessun dorma from Puccini’s Turandot and E lucevan le stelle from Tosca home.)” “Als unvergessliche Höhepunkte nimmt man Blosseys göttlich gesungene Arien Nessun dorma aus Puccinis Turandot und E lucevan le stelle aus Tosca mit nach Hause.”

–Main-Echo (Bayern, Germany), 2014

 

“Jon Paul Décosse (Pistola) and Jeremy Blossey (Bardolfo) both sang excellently and played the characters broadly with lots of comic interplay.”

-Composer’s Notebook (Blog), 2013

 

“Jeremy Blossey and Taras Kulish played the parts of Falstaff’s followers with just the right amount of burlesque and naïveté.”

-Opera Canada, 2012

 

“…tenor Jeremy Blossey sang valiantly as Beppe…”
-Baltimore Sun, 2010

 

“Playing hero Ralph Rackstraw was lyric tenor Jeremy Blossey, who easily handled every vocal challenge and had the requisite spunk and likeability to play the part.”
-Washington Post, 2005

 

“As the Governor of Buenos Aires, Jeremy Blossey hits the mark with a vibrant voice.”
-Baltimore Sun, 2003

 

 

 

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