Aubrey Allicock
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Hailed by the New York Times as "sturdy", "dynamic", and "excellent", Aubrey Allicock continues to make his mark among important opera companies and symphonies both at home and abroad.
His recent triumph at the Metropolitan Opera as Mamoud in The Death of Klinghoffer brought him world-wide recognition this past season. This auspicious debut was followed by a Carnegie debut in a reprise of his roles from the Ojai Music Festival as Tonic and Don Giovanni in Steven Stucky's The Classical Style with Robert Spano conducting and where he was named a candidate in the Warner Music Prize. In addition he make his Seattle Opera debut as Agnelotti in Tosca and a debut with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in Mozart's Requiem. In 2014 Mr. Allicock made an unscheduled Glyndebourne debut as Argante in Rinaldo with Ottavio Dantone conducting in a Robert Carson production.
In 2013 he returned to Opera Theatre of St. Louis for the world première of Terence Blanchard’s Champion, as the young Emile Griffith, the world-renowned prizefighter and made his Phoenix Symphony and New York Philharmonic Youth Concert debuts that season in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
He has sung the roles of Tiridate in Radamisto under the baton of Julian Wachner and director James Darrah; the Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen) with Anne Manson conducting and the U.S. première of Peter Maxwell Davies’ Kommilitonen! as the Grand Inquisitor.
In the 2010-2011 season Mr. Allicock joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera covering the roles of Astarotte (Armida) and Marullo (Rigoletto).
He has appeared on several occasions with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis making his role debut as Mamoud in The Death of Klinghoffer; performed the Mad Hatter and Duck in the U.S. première of Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland; and, Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin. He has also covered the title role of Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro as well as the role of Figaro in The Ghosts of Versailles.
He has performed with the Ojai Music Festival, Wexford Festival Opera, the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, the South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic and with Concerts-Austria as bass soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass at Karlskirche. Mr. Allicock has also had the honor of sharing the stage with Academy Award winning actor Louis Gossett, Jr. in Chamber Music PLUS’s production of New World: Portrait of H.T. Burleigh which featured the music of Antonín Dvořák.
Mr. Allicock received his Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School; M.M. from Indiana University; holds a B.M. from Grand Canyon University and was a Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
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