Glenn Winslade (born 1958) is an Australian operatic tenor known for his interpretations of dramatic roles such as Florestan in ''

Fidelio ''Fidelio'' (; ), originally titled ' (''Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love''), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with ...

'', the title role in '' Idomeneo'', the title role in '' La clemenza di Tito'', Erik in '' The Flying Dutchman'', the title role in ''

Rienzi ' (''Rienzi, the last of the tribunes''; WWV 49) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835). The title is commonly shortened to ''Rienzi ...

'', the title role in '' Lohengrin'', the title role in ''

Tannhäuser Tannhäuser (; gmh, Tanhûser), often stylized, "The Tannhäuser," was a German Minnesinger and traveling poet. Historically, his biography, including the dates he lived, is obscure beyond the poetry, which suggests he lived between 1245 and 1 ...

'', the Emperor in ''

Die Frau ohne Schatten ' (''The Woman without a Shadow''), Op. 65, is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was written between 1911 and either 1915 or 1917. When it premiered at the ...

'', Apollo in ''

Daphne Daphne (; ; el, Δάφνη, , ), a minor figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater. There are several versions of the myth in whi ...

'', Bacchus in '' Ariadne auf Naxos'' and Max in ''

Der Freischütz ' ( J. 277, Op. 77 ''The Marksman'' or ''The Freeshooter'') is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind, based on a story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun from their 181 ...

''. He has appeared with

Opera Australia Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House accompanied by the Opera Australia Orchestra runs for approximately eight months of the year, with the remainder of ...

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, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival,

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Bayreuth Festival The Bayreuth Festival (german: link=no, Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived ...

, and opera houses in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Stuttgart, Vienna, Zurich, Venice, Rome, Monte Carlo, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, Brussels, Amsterdam and Moscow.

Personal life

Winslade studied singing at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and at the Vienna Conservatory. He married

Amanda Thane Amanda Louise Thane (18 December 1953 – 1 September 2012) was an Australian operatic soprano known for her interpretations of roles such as Violetta in Verdi's ''La traviata'', Liù in Puccini's ''Turandot'', Eva in Wagner's ''Die Meistersinger ...

in 1978, divorced her in 1989, but reunited with her in 1995 and embarked on what ''

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'' described as their wilderness years in London, remarrying in 1999.

, herself an operatic soprano, died in 2012."Obituary
in

6 October 2012"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Winslade, Glenn Australian operatic tenors 1958 births Living people 20th-century Australian male opera singers Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni