Dale Duesing
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Dale Duesing (born September 26, 1947) is an American baritone. As an opera singer, he has had an international career spanning five decades.
Duesing grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied piano throughout childhood, and enrolled at Lawrence University, majoring in piano performance. He switched to vocal performance while in college, and won the Metropolitan Opera Competition in his final year of study. After traveling to Europe with a Fulbright Scholarship, Duesing made a name for himself there.
Duesing has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Scala (as Arlecchino in Ariadne auf Naxos, 1984), Vienna State Opera, Paris Opéra, and Covent Garden, among others.
He appeared at the Metropolitan from 1979 to 1989 in Ariadne auf Naxos (with Johanna Meier and René Kollo), Die Zauberflöte (opposite Rita Shane, then ZdzisÅawa Donat, as the Queen of Night), Pagliacci (as Silvio, with Carlo Bergonzi and Cornell MacNeil), Don Pasquale (directed by John Dexter), Il barbiere di Siviglia, Pelléas et Mélisande (a performance later released on Compact Discs), Peter Grimes (as Ned Keene, opposite Jon Vickers), Billy Budd (with Richard Cassilly, in Dexter's production), and Die Fledermaus (as Dr Falke). In 2020, Mr. Duesing was seen as the Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen in The Netherlands. The baritone has also sung under the direction of Karl Böhm, Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Carlo Maria Giulini, Edo de Waart, Herbert von Karajan, and Seiji Ozawa. In 1993, Duesing received a Grammy Award for his 1991 recording of Samuel Barber's The Lovers with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was named the Singer of the Year by Opernwelt magazine in 1994. Duesing made his debut as director at Frankfurt Opera with Il viaggio a Reims.
Other of his recordings include Così fan tutte (conducted by Bernard Haitink, 1986), Hans Zender's Stephen Climax (with Ronald Hamilton as St Simeon Stylites, 1990), and La vie avec un idiot (conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, 1992). On DVD are Wozzeck (1996) and Moses und Aron (2009).
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- Così fan tutte K588, Act One, Scene Four, Finale, Atto prima:: Dove son? Che loco è questo (Ferrando/Guglielmo/Fiordiligi/Dorabella/Despina/Don Alfonso) featuring Bernard Haitink
- Wintermärchen (Le conte d'hiver): Was macht der König (Polixenes, Leontes, Hermione) by Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- Così fan tutte K588, Act One, Scene Four, Finale, Atto prima:: Eccovi il medico (Don Alfonso/Ferrando/Guglielmo/Despina/Fiordiligi/Dorabella) featuring Bernard Haitink
- Wintermärchen (Le conte d'hiver): Camillo - Mein Herr (Leontes, Camillo) by Dale Duesing
- Così fan tutte K588, Act One, Scene Four, Finale, Atto prima:: Ah che del sole il raggio (Ferrando/Guglielmo/Don Alfonso/Fiordiligi/Dorabella/Despina) featuring Bernard Haitink
- Così fan tutte K588, Act One, Scene Four, Finale, Atto prima:: Ah, che tutto in un momento (Fiordiligi/Dorabella/Ferrando/Guglielmo/Don Alfonso) featuring Bernard Haitink
- Wintermärchen (Le conte d'hiver): Eine Spinne im Becher (Leontes, Hofdamen, Hermione)
- Wintermärchen (Le conte d'hiver): Hoheit, Hoheit bitte (Gefolgsmänner, Antigonus, Leontes) by Dale Duesing
- Così fan tutte K588, Act One, Scene Three: Recitativo: Ah, non partite! (Ferrando/Guglielmo/Don Alfonso/Dorabella/Fiordiligi) featuring Bernard Haitink
- Don Giovanni, ossia Il dissoluto punito, K.527: "Guarda un po' come seppe questa strega" featuring Edith Mathis
- Don Giovanni, ossia Il dissoluto punito, K.527: "Presto, presto... pria ch'ei venga" featuring Sherrill Milnes
- Così fan tutte K588, Act One, Scene Three: Recitativo: Che sussurro! Che strepito! Che scompiglio (Don Alfonso/Dorabella/Fiordiligi/Ferrando/Guglielmo/Despina) featuring Bernard Haitink
- Wintermärchen (Le conte d'hiver): Beginning - "Für den Winter" (Green, Leontes, Polixenes) featuring Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- Così fan tutte K588, Act One, Scene Three: Recitativo: Si può sapere un poco (Don Alfonso/Guglielmo/Ferrando) featuring Bernard Haitink
- Wintermärchen (Le conte d'hiver): Zu kalt, zu kalt (Hermione, Leontes, Gree, Polixenes) featuring Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- Così fan tutte K588, Act One, Scene Three: Terzetto: E voi ridete? (Don Alfonso/Ferrando/Guglielmo) featuring Bernard Haitink
- Wintermärchen (Le conte d'hiver): Heiss, zu heiss (Leontes, Green) by Heinz Zednik
- Don Giovanni, ossia Il dissoluto punito, K.527: "Masetto... senti un po'..." by Dale Duesing
- Così fan tutte K588, Act One, Scene Three: Aria: Non siate ritrosi, occhietti vezzosi (Guglielmo) featuring Bernard Haitink
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann, ACT FOUR: C'est bien! On est en fête! featuring Jessye Norman
- Così fan tutte K588, Act One, Scene One: Terzetto: Una bella serenata (Ferrando/Guglielmo/Don Alfonso) featuring Bernard Haitink
- Così fan tutte K588, Act One, Scene Two: Quintetto: Sento, o Dio, che questo piede (Guglielmo/Ferrando/Don Alfonso/Fiordiligi/Dorabella) featuring Bernard Haitink
- Don Giovanni, ossia Il dissoluto punito, K.527: "Giovinette, che fate all'amore" featuring Edith Mathis
- Così fan tutte K588, Act Two, Scene Four, Finale, Atto secondo:: Giusto ciel! (Ferrando/Guglielmo) featuring Bernard Haitink
