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词条 Paul Austin Kelly
释义

  1. Musical beginnings

  2. Opera performances

  3. Recording

  4. Personal life

  5. References

  6. External links

Paul Austin Kelly (born 1960) is an American singer. A former rock musician who has sung opera, the tenor and also writes, records and performs music for children.

Musical beginnings

Kelly attended Rondout Valley High School in Accord, New York and the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut. When he began his music career he fronted bands with names such as Legend, Black Dog and Guilded Spice. Kelly sang an eclectic mix of rock, pop music, folk and jazz. It wasn’t until he went to music school that the operatic potential of his voice was discovered.

Opera performances

Kelly has sung with the Metropolitan Opera,[1] the Royal Opera at Covent Garden,[2] and La Scala in Milan, Italy.[3] The role of Count Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Seville has become his signature role.

Kelly has also made numerous live performances on BBC Radio.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

Recording

Kelly is an artist on the Opera Rara music label,[4] the Telarc label and the Decca label.[5]

In 2003 he launched the Walking Oliver children's music label. The label won the National Parenting Publications Award (NAPPA) in the children's music category for the CD Hello Michael Rosen. The recording featured the poetry of children's literature icon Michael Rosen set to original music by Kelly. On the Walking Oliver CD titled Dreams, Kelly provided music and vocals for poems composed by primary school children from across the UK who had been chosen as winners of the first Walking Oliver Poetry in Song Contest.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

In 2008 Kelly recorded the CD "The Song Is You" with British jazz pianist and producer Kenny Clayton. The CD contains popular music from the Great American Songbook by such composers as Rodgers and Hart, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II.

In 2009 Kelly recorded "Where Did The Dinosaurs Go?" a CD recorded on the Walking Oliver label. The CD won an iParenting Media Award for Outstanding Audio.

Personal life

Kelly lives in Lewes in southern England. It was while performing with the nearby Glyndebourne Opera early in his career that he became enamored of the local area and decided to settle there with his wife, Carol. He still returns to his native country.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/bowse3a.w?term=Kelly,%20Paul%20Austin%20%5BTenor%5D&typ=Name&x=0&xHomePath=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/&xHome=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/bibpro.htm#page_top|title=Metropolitan Opera Association Archives|last=|first=|date=|website=archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/frame.htm|publisher=Metropolitan Opera Association|accessdate=29 September 2014}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Il barbiere di Siviglia - 24 November 1997 Evening|url=http://www.rohcollections.org.uk/performance.aspx?performance=7752&row=0|website=Royal Opera House Collections Online|accessdate=29 September 2014}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT|url=http://www.archiviolascala.org/ricerca/interpreti.aspx?id_allest=3036&id_event=7341&id_allest_conc=&uid=0d89e5a9-13cd-490b-b200-53f9b45b75ff&objecttype=base|website=Archivio La Scala|publisher=Teatro Alla Scala|accessdate=29 September 2014}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Paul Austin Kelly|url=http://www.opera-rara.com/kelly-paul-austin-1.html|website=Opera Rara|accessdate=29 September 2014}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Rossini: The Cantatas Vol 1 / Chailly, Devia, Pertusi, Et Al|url=http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Name/Mauro-Ferrando/Performer/43644-2|website=ArkivMusic|accessdate=29 September 2014}}

External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.paulaustinkelly.com/}}
  • Walking Oliver website
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7 : American operatic tenors|Musicians from Kingston, New York|Living people|1960 births|The Hartt School alumni|Place of birth missing (living people)|Classical musicians from New York (state)

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