Robert Hale Bass
Robert Hale is without doubt one of the world’s most respected and accredited artists. Recent and current appearances have included WOTAN for The Metropolitan Opera’s 2008 production of Die Walküre, WOTAN in the complete Ring Cycle in Taiwan in 2006-7, and he is currently singing the roles of ADORNO and CAPITANEO in Die Gezeichneten for Teatro Massimo di Palermo. He returns to the USA later this year to continue a series of highly successful gala concerts, with appearances including Washington DC.
Robert Hale is without doubt one of the world’s most respected and accredited artists. Recent and current appearances have included WOTAN for The Metropolitan Opera’s 2008 production of Die Walküre, WOTAN in the complete Ring Cycle in Taiwan in 2006-7, and he is currently singing the roles of ADORNO and CAPITANEO in Die Gezeichneten for Teatro Massimo di Palermo. He returns to the USA later this year to continue a series of highly successful gala concerts, with appearances including Washington DC.
Robert Hale was born in Texas, but spent his childhood in Louisiana. His family moved to Oklahoma City where he attended high school, college and later completing his master’s degree at the University of Oklahoma, after which time he did advanced studies at Boston University and New England Conservatory of Music where he was awarded the Artist Diploma and as well won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions. Winning the U.S. National Singer of the Year award during his graduate work at OU, he began his career as a recitalist appearing in concert halls across the country later making his operatic debut with the New York City Opera.
He has appeared with the world’s most renowned opera houses including the New York Metropolitan Opera, Berlin Deutsche Opera, Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House, Teatro alla Scala, Vienna State Opera, Grand Liceu Barcelona, Paris Chatelet, Munich State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, San Francisco Opera, Copenhagen Royal Opera, Helsinki Opera, Sydney Opera, Teatro Colon-Buenos Aires, and the Bolshoi of Moscow to mention a few.
European festival appearances include Salzburg Festspiele, Vienna, Ravenna, Lausanne, Bregenz, Bergen, Orange, Bordeaux, Munich, Savonlinna and in the USA Tanglewood, Ravinia, Cincinnati and Wolftrap and the Hollywood Bowl.
He has made numerous appearances in the leading concert halls of the world including New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Barbican Centre and Prince Albert Hall, Vienna’s Vereinsaal, the Berlin Philharmonie, Sydney, Tokyo appearing with the major orchestras of the world such as Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Toronto and Montreal. In Europe he has performed with the Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Danish Radio Orchestra, Paris Radio Orchestra and others.
He has sung his signature roles Wotan/Wanderer in Wagner’s Ring Cycle in most major opera houses of the world as well as the Flying Dutchman for which he recently received the most prestigious Russian Golden Mask Award in 2005 for his performance in the title role of the Dutchman at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. He is featured on the Cleveland Orchestra’s Decca compact disc recording of Das Rheingold and Die Walkuere with Christoph Von Dohnanyi, as well as the Flying Dutchman with Dohnanyi conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. Also he is featured in the role of Wotan/Wanderer on EMI’s Munich Ring live video recording with Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting.
Mr. Hale’s discography also includes Decca’s Handel’s Messiah with Sir John Elliot Gardiner, Verdi’s Requiem and Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri for Deutsche Grammophon with Giuseppe Sinopoli. In addition Mr. Hale sings Jochanaan in the Chandos 1998 recording of Salome. He also has recorded a compact disc called a Song of Love with Inga Nielsen for EMI Classics, singing love songs from Broadway Musicals. In 2009, Decca released “The Best of the Best” from Messiah featuring Mr. Hale in “The Trumpet Shall Sound.”
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