Kenneth Tarver enjoys a career in the most important international opera theatres and festivals. He has sung at the Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin, Hamburg and Bavarian State Operas, Semperoper Dresden, Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera, Naples Teatro San Carlo, and at the Festivals of Aix-en-Provence and Edinburgh. His repertoire encompasses rôles by Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Gluck, Verdi and Berlioz as well as repertoire by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Shchedrin and Stravinsky. Appearances include Rossini’s La donna del lago at the Edinburgh Festival and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni directed by René Jacobs in Brussels, Cologne and Paris, a rôle which he also performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival with both Claudio Abbado and Daniel Harding. Other performances range from Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Berlioz’s Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict to Shostakovich’s The Nose with Mstislav Rostropovich, and Verdi’s Falstaff with Zubin Mehta and Bernard Haitink.
