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Metropolitan Opera Baritone, Gary Simpson, will sing his fourth production of HOLLAENDER in Der Fliegende Hollaender at the Bucharest National Theater in March-May, 2010. Gary also sang HOLLAENDER and SCARPIA with the Statni Opera Prague as well as SCARPIA with the Seattle Opera. Gary has sung two productions of SWEENEY in Sweeney Todd and Cervantes/”Don Quixote” in Man of La Mancha. Mr. Simpson sang HOLLAENDER with the Manaus Opera Festival in Brazil, directed by the film director Christoph Schlingensief and was heard as both TONIO and ALFIO in the Stephen Lawless acclaimed production of Pagliacci/Cavalleria Rusticana with the Palm Beach Opera. Gary also performed FALSTAFF with the Stadt Theater Hagen in Hagen, Germany, the live radio broadcast of AMFORTAS in Parsifal with the Seattle Opera, DONNER in Das Rheingold with L’Opera Montreal, KURVENAL in Tristan und Isolde and HOLLAENDER with Hawaii Opera Theater. Mr. Simpson made his debut with the Deutsche Oper Berlin as SCARPIA and has performed the role with such Opera Divas as Diana Soviero, Deborah Voigt and Mara Zampieri. Gary also sang IAGO in the “Otello Project” and will reprise the role at the Arizona Opera in 2011.
Other Highlights
NABUCCO with the Opera of Pretoria, South Africa, MACBETH with the Hong Kong Cultural Arts in Hong Kong, China and the Kansas City Lyric Opera, POSA in Don Carlos, Shanghai, China, IAGO with Minnesota and Hawaii Operas, RIGOLETTO with Lyric Opera of Ottawa, Canada, Tulsa Opera, Guadalajara Opera, Hawaii Opera, State Theater Prague and even in Colombo, Sri Lanka, AMONASRO with Orlando Opera, Hawaii Opera, State Theater Prague, ROGER in Verdi’s Jerusalem with the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, Carmina Burana with the West Virginia Symphony.