Dwayne Croft is an American baritone who has sung in more than 500 performances in 38 roles at the
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is oper ...
.
He won the
Richard Tucker Award
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation, founded in 1975, carries the name of Richard Tucker. The foundation is a "non-profit cultural organization dedicated to perpetuating the artistic legacy of the great American tenor through the support and advan ...
in 1996.
He created the role of Nick Carraway in
John Harbison
John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works.
Life
John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris Harbi ...
's ''
The Great Gatsby
''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby ...
'' in 1999, that of Jaufré Rudel in
Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Anneli Saariaho (; ; born 14 October 1952) is a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho has received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the Ensemble Inte ...
's ''
L'amour de loin
' (''Love from Afar'') is an opera in five acts with music by Kaija Saariaho and a French-language libretto by Amin Maalouf. The opera received its world premiere performance on 15 August 2000 at the Salzburg Festival.
Saariaho, living in Paris si ...
'' in 2000, and that of Robert E. Lee in
Philip Glass's ''
Appomattox''.
His brother,
Richard Croft, is also an opera singer of international renown.
A native of
Cooperstown, New York he was married to the Spanish soprano
Ainhoa Arteta
Ainhoa Arteta Ibarrolaburu, better known as Ainhoa Arteta (born 24 September 1964 at Tolosa, Basque province of Gipuzkoa), is a Spanish soprano.
Personal life and training
Her father, José Ramón Arteta, was founder and director of the C ...
, with whom he has a daughter, Sarah.
Recordings
*1999: ''En Concierto'' - Ainhoa Arteta and Dwayne Croft with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Castilla y Léon, Bragado Darman, cond. RTVE MUSICA 65126 - recorded live on August 9, 1999, at the Palacio de los Festivales in Cantabria, Spain
Videography
* ''
The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991''. Deutsche Grammophon DVD, 00440-073-4582
* ''
James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala
''James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala'' was a concert, lasting (including intermissions) approximately eight hours, that the Metropolitan Opera staged in 1996 in honour of its then principal conductor and artistic director. Exc ...
'' (1996), Deutsche Grammophon DVD, B0004602-09
Notes
External links
Full biography at IMG Artists website
American operatic baritones
Living people
Richard Tucker Award winners
20th-century American male opera singers
21st-century American male opera singers
People from Cooperstown, New York
Singers from New York (state)
Classical musicians from New York (state)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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