Mark MILHOFER Tenor
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Mark MILHOFER Tenor
Mark MILHOFER Tenor Mark Milhofer made his professional debut as Gianetto in Rossini's “La Gazza Ladra” for British Youth Opera. He studied with Renata Scotto and Leyler Gencer in Italy, before going on to sing the roles of Fenton (Verdi’s “Falstaff”) and Don Ramiro (Rossini's “La Cenerentola”), conducted by Alberto Zedda and directed by Pier-Luigi Pizzi in Parma. Other highlights have included “Turco in Italia”, “The Consul” and “Matrimonio Segreto” for the Teatro Regio di Torino, Wolf-Ferrari's “La Vedova Scaltra” at La Fenice Venice, Jean Cocteau (Panni's “The Banquet”) for the Teatro dell' Opera in Rome, “Barbiere di Siviglia” in Dario Fo's production in Holland, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain , “La Scala di Seta” conducted by Jean Claude Malgoire in Paris, Brighella and Belmonte in Bari, “Turn of the Screw” in Malta, “Cenerentola” in Nantes and Angers, “Mozart and Salieri” in Rovigo, “Don Pasquale” in Belgium and “Cosi fan tutte” in Giorgio Strehler's renowned production in Beijing and Moscow – having already appeared in over 80 performances throughout Europe. He sang Fledermaus Alfred in Belgium, Telamone in Vivaldi’s "Ercole sul Termodonte" and Prunier in Rondine (Graham Vick, Mo Rizzi) in Venice, all five of Britten’s Canticles in concerts in Northern Italy and Orff’s “Carmina Burana” for the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the title role in Offenbach’s “Orphée aux Enfers” in Cagliari Opera, Don Ottavio in Oxford, Pang in South Korea, directed by Pizzi, “Midsummers Night’s Dream” (Lysander) in Dublin, Beppe in “Pagliacci”, directed by Franco Zeffirelli in Florence and Athens, Belmonte in Salzburg and Tutino’s “The Servant” in Macerata. Further he sang in St. Gallen “Medea in Corinto”, in Dijon Hindemith’s “Neues vom Tage”, in Torino Bob Boles in “Peter Grimes” and in Geneva “La Calisto”, Arnold in “Guillaume Tell” in London, Narraboth in Florence and Bologna, Oronte in “Alcina” at the Buxton Festival and Ottavio at the Longborough Festival. Recent contracts until 2017 include Pergolesi's “L’Olimpiade” in Napoli, “Punch and Judy” in Geneva, Belmonte in Rennes, Bob Boles in Las Palmas, Ivan Karamanzov in the World Premiere of “Leggenda” by Solbiati in Turin and “La Rappresentazione di Anima et di Corpo” in Berlin and Paris with Rene Jacobs, Taxis in “Le Roi du Pausole” by Honegger in Geneva, “Cenerentola” in Bern, "Platee" in Stuttgart, Britten's Madwoman in “Curlew River in Perugia, an opera he also sang in London and Oxford. He sang"Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo" in Berlin, Almaviva in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, “Pulcinella” at Teatro San Carlo Naples, "Schneewittchen" in Basel, “Carmina Burana “in St. Etienne, Zagreb and Monte Carlo. "Cenerentola" and "Armide" in Bern, "Pecheurs des Perles" in Seoul, "Lustige Witwe" and Almaviva in Graz, "Orpheus" in London, "Fairy Queen" in Stuttgart, "Amor vien dal destino" with Rene Jacobs in Berlin, Lysander in Valencia, Comte Ory in London, Ernesto in Zagreb. 2017 he will sing "Fairy Queen" in Stuttgart, "King Arthur" in Berlin and Pisandro in Vienna and Bruxelles. Recent concert appearances have included Britten’s “Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings” in Parma (with Bruno Bartoletti) and with the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome and Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle for the Aldeburgh Festival. In addition he has appeared in recitals at the Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls in London, and in Milan with I Pomeriggi Musicale.