Richard Ziebarth - Bass Baritone
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Mr. Ziebarth is featured on Naxos' newly released CD: |
At home in almost every music performance venue, bass baritone Richard Ziebarth is quickly gaining attention for the warm timbre of his large voice and his expressivity. Whether it be demanding opera roles such as Don Giovanni, Figaro, and Escamillo, concert, oratorio or musical theatre, he imbues every performance with lyricism and an informed musicianship.
This fall, Mr. Ziebarth will be heard as special guest soloist in Princeton Pro Musica's season opening gala The Grandeur of Opera. In June, he débuts with Philadelphia's Center City Opera Theatre as Basil Hallward in Lowell Liebermann's much acclaimed opera The Picture of Dorian Gray based on the Oscar Wilde masterpiece.
A graduate of the Chicago College of Performing Arts of Roosevelt University (honored with a full scholarship), Mr. Ziebarth began his professional career while still in school. For three years he sang with the Opera Theatre of Lucca in Italy. With CCPA's Opera Theatre he performed a variety of concert repertoire and stage roles.
Recent performance highlights include appearances with Palm Beach Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Sarasota Opera, and Light Opera Works. Mr. Ziebarth participated in both the Sarasota and Chautauqua apprentice programs and was a member of the Alan Stone Début Artists at Chicago Opera Theatre, and as such was featured on WFMT radio's Live from Studio One.
Mr. Ziebarth has appeared with the Denver, Elgin, and Crystal Lake Symphony Orchestras, and was a soloist in the Millennium Gala concert series in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. He has a wide variety of oratorio experience including Haydn's Creation and Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart's Requiem, Händel's Messiah, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Paulus, and Bach's Mass in b minor. He is always in demand as soloist for the Beethoven Ninth Symphony.
Professionally trained as a competitive figure skater, Richard Ziebarth was a double gold medalist for the United States Figure Skating Association. His discipline and athleticism are manifest in a commanding stage presence and elegant demeanor. Every performance crackles with charisma and sparkles with personality.
As Soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No.9: |
"The choir, combining the forces of the Festival Chorus and the Plano (Texas) Civic Chorus, was simply awesome in the choral finale, and the solo quartet, particularly bass Richard Ziebarth, were superb." |
Eric E. Harrison - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - June 18, 2006 |
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Scarpia | Tosca | Opera in the Heights |
Basil Hallward | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Center City Opera Theater |
Don Basilio | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Palm Beach Opera |
Pistola | Falstaff | Chautauqua Opera |
Mikado (cover) | Mikado | Chautauqua Opera |
Luther (cover) | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Sarasota Opera |
Escamillo | Carmen | Valhalla Opera |
Gianni Schicchi | Gianni Schicchi | Roosevelt University |
Bob | Old Maid and the Thief | 19th Century Women's Club |
Tancredi | Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda | Chicago Baroque Ensemble |
Don Giovanni | Don Giovanni | American Opera Company |
Figaro | Le Nozze di Figaro | Roosevelt University |
The King | Love for Three Oranges | Opera Theatre of Lucca, Italy |
Pasquariello | Don Giovanni (Gazzaniga) | Opera Theatre of Lucca, Italy |
Grandpa | The Tender Land | Roosevelt University |
Bob | Old Maid and the Thief | Door County Opera |
Claudio | Peccati di Vecchiezza | Opera Theatre of Lucca, Italy |
Jove | Il Pomo d'Oro | Roosevelt University |
Guglielmo | Cosė fan tutte | Roosevelt University |
Manuel | La Vida Breve | Opera Factory |
Don Giovanni | Don Giovanni | San Benedetto |
William Emmons | The Village Singer | San Benedetto |
Lucas | The Student Prince | Light Opera Works |
Silvio | I Pagliacci | San Benedetto |
SOLOIST | Haydn's Creation | Hot Springs Music Festival |
SOLOIST | The Grandeur of Opera | Princeton Pro Musica |
Guest Artist |
| Hot Springs Music Festival |
| "The Sorcerer" in World Premiere of Cole Porter's Aladdin | |
RECITALIST | Alan Stone Debut Artists Series | Chicago Opera Theater on WFMT Radio |
SOLOIST | Symphony No. 9 - Beethoven | Denver Symphony Orchestra |
SOLOIST | Millennium Gala Concert | St. Croix - US VI |
SOLOIST | =various= | Elgin Symphony Orchestra |
Recitalist | =various= | Chicago Fine Arts Society |
SOLOIST | The Creation - Haydn | Crystal Lake Symphony |
SOLOIST | Requiem - Mozart | Crystal Lake Symphony |
SOLOIST | Messiah - Händel | Crystal Lake Symphony |
SOLOIST | Lord Nelson Mass - Haydn | Roosevelt University Symphony |
Elijah | Elijah - Mendelssohn | St. Philip's Concert Series |
SOLOIST | Mass in b minor - J. S. Bach | St. Philip's Concert Series |
SOLOIST | The Creation - Haydn | St. Philip's Concert Series |
SOLOIST | Paulus - Mendelssohn | St. Philip's Concert Series |
Bach, J.S. | Mass in B minor |
| Christmas Oratorio |
| St. John Passion |
| St. Matthew Passion |
| Magnificat |
| Easter Oratorio |
Beethoven | Missa Solemnis |
| Symphony No. 9 |
Brahms | Deutsches Requiem |
Delius | Sea Drift |
| Songs of Sunset |
Dubois | Seven Last Words of Christ |
Fauré | Requiem |
Händel | Messiah |
Haydn | The Creation |
| Lord Nelson Mass |
Mendelssohn | Elijah |
| Paulus |
Mozart | Requiem |
| Coronation Mass |
| Vesperae Solennes di Confessore |
Rossini | Messa di Gloria |
| Petite Messe Solennelle |
| Stabat Mater |
Vaughan Williams | Five Mystical Songs |
Verdi | Messa da Requiem |
| Bellini | I Capuleti e I Montecchi | Fra Lorenzo | 3 |
Norma | Oroveso | 3 | |
Puritani | Giorgio Valton | 3 | |
| Berlioz | La Damnation de Faust | Mephistopheles | 3 |
| Bizet | Carmen | Escamillo | 1 |
| Blitzstein | Regina | Horace Giddens | 3 |
| Boito | Mefistofele | Mefistofele | 2 |
| Copland | The Tender Land | Grandpa | 1 |
| Donizetti | La Filla du Regiment | Sulpice | 3 |
L'Elisir d'Amore | Dulcamara | 3 | |
Lucia di Lammermoor | Raimondo | 3 | |
Anna Bolena | Enrico VIII | 3 | |
Don Pasquale | Don Pasquale | 2 | |
| Floyd | Susannah | Blitch | 2 |
| Gazzaniga | Don Giovanni | Pasquariello | 1 |
| Gounod | Faust | Mephistopheles | 1 |
| Händel | Semele | Somnus | 2 |
Ariodante | Re di Scozia | 2 | |
Armida | Idreno | 2 | |
| Massenet | Don Quichotte | Don Quichotte | 3 |
| Sancho Panza | 3 | |
Manon | Des Grieux | 3 | |
| Meyerbeer | Robert le Diable | Bertram | 3 |
| Moore | The Ballad of Baby Doe | Horace Tabor | 2 |
| Mozart | Cosi fan Tutte | Guglielmo | 1 |
| Don Alfonso | 1 | |
Don Giovanni | Leporello | 1 | |
| Don Giovanni | 1 | |
Le Nozze di Figaro | Figaro | 1 | |
Die Zauberflöte | Papageno | 2 | |
| Offenbach | Les Contes D'Hoffmann | Four Villains | 2 |
| Luther | 1 | |
| Puccini | La Boheme | Colline | 1 |
Gianni Schicchi | Gianni Schicchi | 1 | |
Tosca | Scarpia | 3 | |
| Purcell | The Tempest | First Devil | 2 |
| Rossini | Il Barbiere di Seviglia | Basilio | 1 |
La Donna del Lago | Douglas | 2 | |
La Gazza Ladra | Il Podesta | 2 | |
L'Inganno Felice | Batone | 3 | |
L'Italiana in Algeri | Mustafa | 2 | |
Maometto Secondo | Maometto | 2 | |
Semiramide | Assur | 3 | |
Il Signor Bruschino | Gaudenzio | 2 | |
Il Turco in Italia | Selim | 2 | |
Il Viaggo a Reims | Lord Sidney | 2 | |
| Stravinsky | The Rakes Progress | Nick Shadow | 2 |
| Sullivan | Mikado | Mikado | 1 |
| Verdi | Falstaff | Pistola | 1 |
Macbeth | Banco | 2 | |
Oberto | Oberto | 2 | |
Il Trovatore | Ferrando | 2 | |
La Traviata | Germont | 3 | |
| Wagner | Tannhauser | Wolfram | 3 |
| Weil | Street Scene | Frank Maurrant | 3 |
1 | performed |
2 | prepared |
3 | in preparation or future role |
Various Shows and Songs by Berlin, Leigh, Lerner & Loewe, Gershwin, Porter, and Rodgers & Hammerstein |
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Chautauqua Opera |
Sarasota Opera |
Alan Stone Début Artists of the Chicago Opera Theater |
B.M. - Voice Performance- Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University |
Richard Stilwell | Metropolitan Opera (present) |
Giorgio Tozzi | Metropolitan Opera |
Andrew Schultze | |
Elizabeth Fischer Monastero | |
Donna Brunsma | Lyric Opera of Chicago |
Giulio Favario | Lyric Opera of Chicago |
Martin Katz | |
Lorenzo Malfatti | |
Ken Smith | |
Sheila Saperstein | Northwestern University |
Peter Amster | Roosevelt University |
Winner | The MacDowell Society Voice Competition |
Full Scholarship | The Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University |
Finalist | Metropolitan Opera Auditions (Midwest Region) |
Career Grant | Chicago Fine Arts Society |
Grand Prize Winner | Bel Canto Foundation Competition |
ATHLETICS |
Double Gold Medalist (1988) - for the United States Figure Skating Association Competitions |
Former National Competitor - Figure Skating (USFSA) |
Nutcracker Prince (1999) - The Nutcracker on Ice - The Crown Center (Evanston, IL) |
Figure Skating Coach (1991-present) - The Crown Center (Evanston, IL) |
Full Member - Professional Skaters Association (PSA) |
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