Photo: Hanya Chlala
Pauls Putninš
Latvian born Pauls Putninš was both a member of Riga Dom Church Boys Choir. After studying conducting in Riga and Jerusalem, he subsequently studied singing at the Trinity College of Music, London where he was awarded the 1998 Opera Prize. He was also awarded the Eric Vietheer award at Glyndebourne in 1999.
International opera engagements include Colline La Bohème for Opera de Nancy and Castleward, Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor for Opera Colorado, Denver and the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow, Escamillo Carmen for New Zealand Opera, Leporello Don Giovanni for Latvian National Opera, Lilaque Fils in Henze Boulevard Solitude for Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa and for Gran Teatr del Liceu, Barcelona (available on DVD from EuroArts), Collatinus The Rape of Lucretia in St Petersburg and Riga and Reinmar Tannhäuser for the Gran Teatr del Liceu, Barcelona. Opera engagements in the UK have included Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro, Masetto Don Giovanni, Don Fernando Fidelio, Hobson Peter Grimes, Nettuno Idomeneo, Doctor Pelléas et Mélisande, Lodovico Otello, First Priest and Second Armed Man Die Zauberflöte and Immigration Officer Flight for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Bonze Madama Butterfly and Ramfis Aida for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall, Lotario Flavio for the Early Opera Company, Lackey in Ariadne (prologue) and Doctor in La Traviata for the Birmingham Opera Company.
Pauls Putninš’concert engagements include Beethoven 9th Symphony with Philharmonia and RPO, Cimarosa Maestro di Cappella (both singing and conducting) with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Gounod Mors et Vita for Latvian National Opera, Charpentier Te Deum with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the world premiere of Brian Elias’ Talisman with the National Youth Orchestra at the Cheltenham International Music Festival. He recorded the premiere recordings of Gloucester in Meyerbeer’s Margherita d’Anjou and Ferrondo in Mercadante’s Maria Stuarda for Opera Rara and Walford Davies Everyman for Dutton.
Future engagements include Verdi Requiem with RPO, Beethoven 9th Symphony for the the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart Requiem in Turku, Finland, Lorenzo I Capuleti e i Montecchi for the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow, Colline La Bohème for English National Opera and Don Fernando Fidelio for Garsington Opera.
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