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Ensemble - Deutsche Oper Berlin

Chance Jonas-O'Toole

Chance Jonas-O'Toole

Der Tenor Chance Jonas-O'Toole bereicherte in der Spielzeit 23/24 das Ensemble der Deutschen Oper Berlin als Stipendiat der Opera Foundation New York, in der Saison 2024/25 als Stipendiat des Förderkreises der Deutschen Oper Berlin im Talent-Circle. In seiner zweiten Spielzeit wird Chance Jonas-O'Toole die Rollen des David in DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG, des Steuermanns in DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER und des Tamino in DAS MÄRCHEN VON DER ZAUBERFLÖTE sowie Rollen in u. a. DAS SCHLAUE FÜCHSLEIN, LA TRAVIATA, LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES, PIQUE DAME und SALOME übernehmen. In der Spielzeit 2023/24 war er in Neuproduktionen von Donizettis ANNA BOLENA als Sir Hervey, in George Benjamins WRITTEN ON SKIN als John/Angel 3 und in Tschaikowskys PIQUE DAME als Tschekalinski sowie in vielen Repertoireproduktionen zu hören.

Für die Sommersaison 2023 kehrte er zum Merola Opera Program zurück, wo er in Brittens THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA den Male Chorus spielte. In der Saison 2022 von Merola trat er als Monostatos in DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE auf und sang mit dem San Francisco Opera Orchestra Szenen von Donizetti und Britten.

Er belegte den zweiten Platz beim Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Western Region 2023 und wurde als Finalist beim Lone-Star Vocal Competition der Dallas Opera ausgewählt. 2022 wurde Chance Jonas-O'Toole als Finalist beim Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition ausgewählt.

2021 war er Gerdine Young Artist am Opera Theatre of St. Louis, wo er Captain Collins im Workshop „New Works, Bold Voices” sang und im Center Stage Concert auftrat. Er beendete das Jahr 2021 mit dem Liederabend „Op. Senses”, einem Programm mit neuen Vokalwerken, kuratiert von National Sawdust und Beth Morrison Projects in Brooklyn, New York. 2019 gab er sein Debüt beim Boston Symphony Orchestra als Tenorsolist in Beethovens Chorfantasie unter Andris Nelsons.

In den Sommern 2017 und 2018 war Chance Jonas-O'Toole Stipendiat am Tanglewood Music Center, wo er seine Leidenschaften für Kammermusik und neue Werke erkunden und mit international renommierten Künstlern wie Dawn Upshaw, Stephanie Blythe und Simon Keenlyside zusammenarbeiten konnte. Während dieser Stipendien brachte er Werke von Michael Gandolfi und Doug Balliett zur Uraufführung und trat in Programmen mit Bach-Kantaten unter der Leitung von John Harbison auf.

Chance Jonas-O'Toole ist Absolvent der Juilliard School, wo er seinen Bachelor- und Master-Abschluss in Musik machte. Während seiner Zeit an der Juilliard School interpretierte er Partien wie Prolog in Brittens TURN OF THE SCREW, Mercure in Rameaus HIPPOLYTE ET ARICIE, Jo the Loiterer in Virgil Thomsons THE MOTHER OF US ALL im Met Museum mit Met Live Arts sowie First Sailor in Purcells DIDO AND AENEAS auf einer Tournee mit Juilliard 415.Die Juilliard ist auch der Ort, an dem er seine Liebe zum Lied- und Konzertrepertoire entwickelte. Er nahm am New York Festival of Song, am Juilliard Songfest, an WQXRs Midday Masterpieces und an der Uraufführung von Jonathan Dawes OROBORIUM mit dem New Juilliard Ensemble in der Alice Tully Hall teil.

Chance Jonas-O'Toole ist Empfänger des Novick Career Advancement Grant der Juilliard School.

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DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 22. Fensterchen

On 7 March 2025, the first part of Tobias Kratzer's Strauss trilogy, ARABELLA, celebrates its revival as part of our ‘Richard Strauss in March’ weeks, with Jennifer Davis as Arabella , Heidi Stober as Zdenka/Zdenko, Thomas Johannes Mayer as Mandryka, Daniel O'Hearn as Matteo and, as in the premiere series, Doris Soffel and Albert Pesendorfer as the Waldner couple. Today we are giving away our DVD, which will not be available in shops until 14 February 2025. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to NAXOS for giving us the very special opportunity to put ARABELLA in our lottery pot for you almost eight weeks before the official sales launch.

In today's Advent Calendar window, we are giving away two DVDs of ARABELLA – a lyrical comedy in three acts by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. If you would like to win one of the two DVDs, please write an e-mail with the subject ‘The 22nd window’ to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

Vienna, circa 1860. The financially strapped Count Waldner is lodging with his family in a Viennese hotel. His only path to solvency is for him to secure an advantageous marriage for one of his two daughters – and the family can only afford to present Arabella, the eldest, in the upper circles of society. To conceal the family’s indigence, the parents have raised Zdenka as a boy, dressing her accordingly. Arabella is not short of suitors but has resolved to wait for ‘Mr Right’. When Mandryka, an aristocrat from a distant region, arrives, he and Arabella are instantly smitten. Arabella only asks to be able to bid farewell to her friends and suitors at the Fasching ball that evening. At the ball, Arabella says goodbye to her admirers. There is also the young officer Matteo, with whom Zdenka is secretly in love and with whom she has formed a friendship under the guise of her disguise as a boy. Matteo, however, desires Arabella and is distraught when he realises the hopelessness of his love. Zdenka devises a plan: she fakes a letter from Arabella in which she promises Matteo a night of love together. But instead she wants to wait for him herself in the darkness of the hotel room. Mandryka learns of Arabella's alleged infidelity and goes to the hotel with the ball guests to surprise Arabella in flagrante delicto. Arabella, innocent of this, is initially shocked and saddened by Mandryka’s suspicions but forgives him when the mix-up is revealed for what it is. The two agree to marry, as do Zdenka and Matteo.

Richard Strauss’s orchestral richness and opulence coupled with the period Viennese setting of the work led to ARABELLA being falsely pigeonholed as a light-hearted comedy of errors from its 1933 premiere onwards. In the estimation of Tobias Kratzer, however, who triumphed at the Deutsche Oper with his production of Alexander von Zemlinsky’s THE DWARF, this final collaboration between Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal marks a collision of two world views: the traditional roles of men and women on the one hand – as expressed in Arabella’s famous solo “Und du sollst mein Gebieter sein” – and a modern idea of social interaction on the other – as illustrated by Zdenka with her questioning of gender-based identities. Here, Kratzer turns the spotlight on this disunity between the various character portrayals in ARABELLA and explores these role-specific tensions on a continuum stretching from 19th-century Vienna to the present day. In the category of stage design, Manuel Braun, Jonas Dahl and Rainer Sellmaier were honoured with the renowned German Theatre Award DER FAUST 2023 for this production.

In this recording, under the baton of Sir Donald Runnicles, you will experience Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Sara Jakubiak, Elena Tsallagova, Russell Braun, Robert Watson, Thomas Blondelle, Kyle Miller, Tyler Zimmerman, Hye-Young Moon, Lexi Hutton, Jörg Schörner and others, as well as the chorus and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The performances on 18 and 23 March 2023 were recorded by rbb Kultur and Naxos for this DVD.

We would like to thank the Naxos label for the great collaboration over the past few years, which documents recordings of DER ZWERG, DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE, FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, DER SCHATZGRÄBER, DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG and ANTIKRIST. Richard Strauss' ARABELLA and INTERMEZZO will be released in the course of 2025.



Closing date: 22 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 23 December 2024. The DVDs will then be sent by post. There is no right of appeal.