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Nathan Berg Bass-Baritone

With a “first-class voice” (The Boston Globe), Nathan Berg has emerged as one of the most in-demand bass-baritones of his generation. Berg enjoys a versatile career that incorporates a balance of concert, recital and operatic performances.

With repertoire ranging from Bach and Handel to Mozart and Mahler, he has travelled extensively to perform with such conductors as Abbado, Boulez, Christie, Davis, Dohnanyi, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Haenchen, Harding, Herreweghe, Hogwood, King, Leppard, Lockhart, Masur, Maazel, Norrington, Rilling, Salonen, Slatkin and Tilson-Thomas. Symphonic highlights for the 10/11 season include Dvořák’s Te Deum with Cleveland Orchestra, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center, the Mozart Requiem under Michael Tilson Thomas at San Francisco Symphony and the Verdi Requiem and assorted Bach cantatas with the Oregon Bach Festival. A busy operatic season in 2010-2011 sees Nathan Berg as the magician Zoroastro in Handel’s Orlando, a new production presented by Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Dijon and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées by acclaimed director David McVicar and under the baton of Emmanuelle Haim. Mr. Berg then returns to l’Opéra national de Paris in a new production by Laurent Pelly of Handel’s Giulio Cesare as Achilla, again with Emmanuelle Haim as well as a return to Edmonton Opera for his role debut as Scarpia in Tosca in the spring of 2011.

Mr. Berg’s operatic credits include the roles of Figaro, Leporello, Ferrando (Il Trovatore), Mercurio (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Schaunard and Coline (La Bohème), Gugliemo (Cosi fan tutte) and many more at leading opera companies including the Canadian Opera Company, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, New York City Opera, Opera de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper, Vancouver Opera and Netherlands Opera.Nathan Berg's discography includes Handel's Messiah and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Harmonia Mundi), Mozart's Requiem (Erato), Dvorak's Stabat Mater with Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony; Bach's Mass in B Minor with Boston Baroque, songs by Othmar Schoeck with both the English Chamber Orchestra (Novalis) and with Julius Drake (Jecklin), Mendelssohn songs and duets with Sophie Daneman and Eugene Asti (Hyperion) and recordings of Rameau's Zoroastre and Handel's Theodora with Les Arts Florissants (Erato).

A winner of prizes in the Royal Over-Seas League, Peter Pears, Kathleen Ferrier and Walther Gruner Lieder Competitions, Mr. Berg's musicality and artistry continues to receive international critical acclaim.


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