Tenor Stanford Olsen to perform at BYU-Idaho

 

Operatic tenor Stanford Olsen will perform Tuesday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Barrus Concert Hall at Brigham Young University-Idaho as part of the Center Stage Performing Arts Series.

Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for BYU-Idaho students and can be purchased at the BYU-Idaho Ticket Office by calling 496-2230 or online at www.byui.edu/tickets.

Olsen, who is a professor of voice at Florida State University, is one of the world's leading light lyric tenors. He is known to Latter-day Saint audiences for singing at a recent birthday celebration for church President Gordon B. Hinckley.

Since his debut in 1986 opposite Joan Sutherland, he has performed over 150 times with New York's Metropolitan Opera, and has been heard in such major venues as La Scala, Australian Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, San Francisco Opera and most other significant opera companies in the United States and Europe.

One of this generation's most versatile concert performers, he regularly performs with the world's top orchestras and conductors in repertory from Bach to Bartok.

Olsen received the bachelor of music degree from the University of Utah and the Artists Diploma in Opera from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, who named him Alumnus of the Year in 1992.

His recordings of Bach, Mozart and Rossini have received critical praise, including a 1995 nomination for a Grammy Award for Rossini's Tancredi with Alberto Zedda on the Naxos label. His 1999 Telarc recording of Dvorak's Stabat Mater with the Atlanta Symphony also received a Grammy nomination.