JONATHAN CARLE, baritone
In
the title role of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Jonathan Carle was described
as a singer with “a natural feeling for line, fluid stage movement and
nefarious good looks [whose] voice is a model of melodious charm.” In La Bohème, Mr. Carle’s “full-bodied baritone carried well across
Puccini's chocolaty orchestration,”
while “his strong acting gave Marcello the weight the character requires.”
Mr. Carle has performed with some of North America’s leading regional opera companies such as Opera North, Minnesota Opera, Commonwealth Opera, Opera in Concert (Toronto), Sarasota Opera, Green Mountain Opera Festival and Glimmerglass Opera. Building a comprehensive repertoire of some twenty leading roles, Mr. Carle’s resume also includes the title roles in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Nixon in China and Don Quixote (Telemann), as well as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Dr. Miracle (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Ford (Falstaff), Frank (Die Fledermaus), Escamillo (Carmen), Janusz (Halka), Filippo (Beatrice di Tenda), Count di Luna (Il Trovatore), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Silvio (Pagliacci), and Seid (Il Corsaro).
Equally at home in oratorio, Mr. Carle’s solo concert credits are Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, the Brahms and Mozart Requiems, Handel’s Messiah, Vaughan William’s Five Mystical Songs, Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ, the Bach and Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorios, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. As a recitalist, Mr. Carle has performed for Glimmerglass Opera, Radio Canada and the Resident Artist series at the Minnesota Institute of Art. His song repertoire covers the Renaissance to contemporary works including world premieres.