| Lars Fosser |
| Baritone |
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| The coming of age
of a singer into an important Verdi baritone is a transformation to
reckon with, and Danish baritone Lars Fosser's musical and theatrical
heritage is a reflection of life with a stage director father, and a
singer mother. His artistic upbringing introduced him to a long and
loving relationship with Italian Opera, intimate lieder, and even
American show tunes. His earliest operatic endeavors at age three (Child in Butterly) and age four (Child in Wozzeck) at the National Norwegian Opera left an indelible impression on his artistic sensibility and development as a singer. The baritone's exuberant performances in such magnificent roles as Guiseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, Nabucco, Posa in Don Carlos, and Don Carlo in Ernani, as well as Giacomo Puccini’s Scarpia in Tosca, and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, shower him with critical acclaim in this repertoire, dubbing him a "magnificent baritone with a weighty and well balanced voice, that will bring anyone who hears him to ecstasy," -- as well as "the new Danish superbaritone." The summer of 2010 begins a busy schedule with liederabends with the Societa Pro Musica and Sct. Markus Church in Arhus, Denmark, along with a Oresundsoperaen in Gentofte. He appears as Marquis de Chevreuse in Donizetti's Maria de Rohan for the Danish Bel Canto Society, and joins the International Operafestival in Fredrikstad, Norway, for a series of Opera Gala Concerts and as Scarpia in Tosca. He sings Leporello in Don Giovanni with the Steyr Music Festival in Austria, followed by a newly commissioned work by Fredrik Osterling, "Robert and Clara", the story of the Schumans, with the Helsingborg Symphony in Sweden. His recently released debut aria recording, “The Bad Guy” on the Danish CDKLASSISK label - a collection of baritone leading role characters from I Pagliacci to Tosca -has been hailed by the critical press as operatic "pure song" and "pure singing" - proclaiming "What a voice, and what an interpretation! One has to listen when Fosser sings and one can do nothing but to be captured by it." He will record Handel's Messiah for the same label in December. In the planning stage is a debut lieder recording, "Songs of Kings", with composers ranging from Schubert to Beethoven, from Saint Saens to Howell to Rangstrom, in collaboration with Europe's finest accompanist, Roger Vignoles. Lars Fosser is also a frequent concert artist, thrilling audiences in major venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Danish Radio Symphony Hall, as well as the Tivoli Symphony Hall in Copenhagen, Mercedes Halle in Berlin and Braunschweigs grosses Kulturhaus, with such fine orchestras as Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatskapelle Braunschweig, The Seeland Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Radio Symfony Orcestra, and many others . In Europe, his interpretations of Mephisto in Schumann’s “7 Szenen aus Goethe’s Faust” as well as soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, were broadcast live on Danish National Radio. He continues to be in demand at regular lieder-abends and oratory concerts. He is a laureate of several international singing competitions, taking Prizes at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg International singing competition and the CCO International Singing Competition in New York, as well as being the recipient of the Audience Choice Award during his engagement as the leading baritone with the Stadttheater Görlitz, Germany. 5/26/10 |