GOULD Stephen

Stephen Gould is one of the most saught after heldenternos of our time.

2020 are scheduled Tristan und Isolde in conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen in Los Angeles as well as Ariadne auf Naxos in Vienna.

2021 he will perform Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götter-dämmerung conducted by Christian Thielemann in Dresden, Tristan und Isolde in both Valencia and San Francisco, excerpts from Der Ring des Nibelungen in Tokyo, the 2^nd act of Tristan und Isolde in Hamburg as well as Tannhäuser at Bayreuth Festival.

He will perform Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde conducted by Teodor Currentzis on a tour throughout Europe.

Highlights of past seasons include Otello in Vienna, Dresden, Tokyo, Karlsruhe and Florence, Die Frau ohne Schatten Paris, Dortmund, Rotterdam, Vienna, Buenos Aires, at Salzburg Festival and in Dresden, 2^nd act of Tristan und Isolde in concert in Washington and New York, Ariadne auf Naxos in Hamburg, Vienna and Dresden, an appearance at the Opera Ball in St. Petersburg and a Wagnerian concert at the BBC Proms in London Tannhäuser at Bayreuth Festival, in Budapest, Vienna, Mannheim, Las Palmas, Paris, Tokyo, and Geneva, Die Walküre with Bayreuth Festival in Abu Dhabi, Ariadne auf Naxos in Dresden, Fidelio in Tokyo Hamburg, Dresden, Munich, Florence and Rome, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung Vienna, Dresden, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Bayreuth and New York, Parsifal in Baden-Baden and Vienna, Tristan und Isolde in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, at Bayreuth Festival, in Zurich, London, Tokyo, Dresden, Berlin and in concert in Birmingham, Paris, Berlin and La Coruña, his role debuts as Loge in Das Rheingold and as Siegmund in Die Walküre in Tokyo, his first Aegisth in a concert performance of Elektra in Berlin, Ariadne auf Naxos in Vienna, Dresden and Graz, Fidelio in Hamburg, Dresden, Munich, Tokyo, Florence and Rome, I Pagliacci in Berlin, Lohengrin in Hamburg, Trieste and Dresden, Parsifal in Vienna, Berlin, Dresden and Graz, Der fliegende Holländer in Turin, Wien, Madrid, New York, Munich and Palermo, Les Troyens in Valencia and Florence, Peter Grimes in Dresden and Geneva, Die Liebe der Danae in Dresden, or Die tote Stadt in Berlin, Vienna and London.

Stephen Gould has performed with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Ivor Bolton, Riccardo Chailly, Adam Fischer, Daniele Gatti, Hartmut Haenchen, Marek Janowski, Philippe Jordan, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christian Thielemann, Franz Welser-Möst and David Zinman.

He sang Beethoven’s 9^th symphony in Berlin and Munich, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in Chicago, Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder in Dresden, Munich, Montreal, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Montreux and at the Lucerne Festival, Mahler's 8^th symphony in Bergen, New York with Pierre Boulez, Leipzig, Paris, Vienna and Budapest, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in Chicago, Berlin, Graz, Lucerne, Paris and Prague, or Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex in London.

Among his recordings are Beethoven IX with Donald Runnicles, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung and Tristan und Isolde with Christian Thielemann as well as Siegfried and Tristan und Isolde with Marek Janowski.

In May 2015 he was awarded the title Österreichischer Kammersänger.

05/2020