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Leith Summer Festival's artistic director, pianist Robert Kortgaard, joins with the world-travelling baritone opera star and concert performer, Brett Polegato, to present a delightful summer's evening of English music from both sides of the Atlantic, and beyond! Featured are songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten plus many other favourites from the traditional English folk repertoire.
Brett Polegato's artistic sensibility has earned him the highest praise from audiences and critics: ‘his is a serious and seductive voice' says The Globe and Mail, and The New York Times has praised him for his ‘burnished, well-focused voice' which he uses with ‘considerable intelligence and nuance.' He appears regularly on the world's most distinguished stages including those of Lincoln Center, La Scala, the Concertgebouw, the Opéra National de Paris, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, the Teatro Real, Roy Thomson Hall, the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, and can be heard as soloist in the Grammy Awards Best Classical Recording of 2003 - Vaughan Williams 'A Sea Symphony' (Telarc) with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Robert Spano. Brett Polegato opened the Canadian Opera's 2009/2010 season as Sharpless, his role debut, in Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
One of today's most sought-after lyric baritones on the operatic stage, Brett is equally at ease on the concert and recital stages. Mr. Polegato made his Carnegie Hall recital debut at Weill Recital Hall in May 2003 with pianist, Warren Jones, and returned the following year with the Atlanta Symphony to reprise their Grammy award winning performance of A Sea Symphony. He is a frequent guest artist with the Bayerisher Rundfunkorchester in Munich, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared with almost every major U.S. and Canadian orchestra. As a recitalist, Brett Polegato appears frequently throughout North America and Europe, and is particularly noted for his programming choices and wide range of repertoire.
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