Talk:Steven Cole (tenor)

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Entry for Stephen [sic] Cole (tenor)

Mr Cole would like his entire entry to be deleted. Is there anything that can be done about this?

Thank you.

Margueritegautier (talk) 11:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I can sympathize with this. The article was very poor (the original version appears to have been copied from somewhere [1]), without proper referencing or formatting, repetitive, and worst of all, under the wrong spelling of his name. However, this is a notable artist. I have begun a drastic rewriting and restructuring of this article and have moved it to the correct spelling of his name. Over the next two days, I will build up the article again with proper references for his later performances and discography. Voceditenore (talk) 17:31, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Material to be added

I have removed the below material from the article and placed it here so that it can be re-added in a more concise, coherent, and encyclopedic style with proper referencing. Voceditenore (talk) 17:31, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Material from old version of the article

In 1989, he had his Seattle Opera Debut with the part of Goro, the matchmaker in Madame Butterfly. In 1994, he performed in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, A Musical Drama in Two Acts with Kent Nagano, in 1995 in From the Southland, in 1996 in Igor Stravinsky's: The Rake's Progress, in 1996 in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magical Flute, in 1997 in Johann Strauss' Der Bürger als Edelmann and in Ariadne auf Naxos, in 1999 in Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers with Marc Minkowski. Steven Cole has participated in the world premieres of Jean Prodromides' La Noche Triste, Gavin Bryar's Medea, and the revised version of Gyorgi Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre in a production by Peter Sellars at the 1997 Salzburg Festival, later recorded in Paris with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Steven Cole has been heard in Berg's Lulu, Hans Werner Henze's Boulevard Solitude, and Carlisle Floyd's Susanna, the latter being recorded with Kent Nagano.

Cole has since returned to perform in Seattle with La fanciulla del West in 2004 and Les contes d'Hoffmann, singing the part of Spalanzani in 2005. During the 2006-2007 season he appeared in Wozzeck at the Liceu in Barcelona, The Magic Flute in Parma, Napoli and Genoa, Madame Butterfly at the San Francisco Opera and Carmen at the Houston Grand Opera.

Steven Cole made his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Dancing Master in Ariadne auf Naxos under James Levine. He has sung with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chicago Symphony, and performed in Leoš Janáček's From the House of the Dead with Rafael Kubelik conducting the New York Philharmonic. He has returned many times to the San Francisco Opera singing the part of Khovanshchina in Boris Godunov, The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera) and has also performed with Canadian Opera Company, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Philadelphia Opera, Washington Opera.

Steven Cole has European career includes performances in operas and operettas like Orphée aux Enfers, Les Brigands, Madama Butterfly, Carmen, Billy Budd, at the Opéra de Paris, the Opéra Comique, the Théatre des Champs-Elysées, as well as the opera houses of Geneva, Lausanne, Rome, Genoa, Cagliari, Nice, Lyon, Bordeaux, the Liceu in Barcelona and the Salzburg Festival. He is a regular at the Aix-en-Provence Festival where he has recorded two productions, The Magic Flute under William Christie and The Rake’s Progress under Kent Nagano. Recent performances include Orphée aux Enfers in Geneva and Lyon under the musical direction of Marc Minkowski, which was recorded.

In the baroque music repertoire, he has collaborated with Michel Corboz for Orfeo, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, with Rene Jacobs for Cesti's L’Argia and Cavalli's La Calisto (Salzburg). Most recently he has recorded for Austria's O1 classical music radio station the role of Rodisbe in Antonio Sartorio's Giulio Cesare under Attilio Cremonesi for the Festwochen der Alten Musik i.e. Innsbruck Festival of Early Music.

In season 2007-2008 he sung Porgy and Bess and Falstaff at the Opera Company of Philadelphia, La Fanciulla del West for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Rake’s progress at the San Francisco Opera, Tosca at the Seattle Opera and The Magic Flute at Treviso. 2008 -2010, he sung Teapot/Math/Frog, L'enfant et les Sortiléges at the Théâtre de Caen; Madama Butterfly's Goro at the Opéra de Nice; Frantz, Andrès, Cochenille, and Pitichinaccio, Les contes d’Hoffmann at the San Francisco Opera.In 2010/11, he sang Madama Butterfly, Le Nozze di Figaro and Carmen in Cincinnati, La Belle Hélène in Nantes, A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Houston, Madama Butterfly in Toronto and La Fanciulla del West in San Francisco.

Update: As all the above material for which independent references are available has now been added to the article, I've "hatted" it. Voceditenore (talk) 11:13, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]