Stanford Olsen (born 1960) is an American tenor who has had an active international career in operas and concerts since 1983. He has sung with several of the world's leading opera companies, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala and the Royal Opera, London. He was a regular performer at the Metropolitan Opera from 1986 until 1997 where he gave more than 160 performances. A specialist in light lyric tenor roles, he excelled in the operas of Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini. After retiring from full-time performance in the late 1990s he became a faculty member at the Florida State University's College of Music, where he was Professor of Voice and Lucille P. and Elbert B. Shelfer Eminent Scholar. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance in 2012. He continues to perform on the concert platform in addition to his teaching and coaching.
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.
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He is a frequent collaborator with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic, He has performed with such notables as Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Seiji Ozawa, the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra, James Levine and the Berlin Philharmonic,John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque soloists, and Helmuth Rilling and the International BachAkademie.
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Has performed over 150 times with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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Is currently the Professor of Voice and Lucille P. and Elbert B. Shelfer Eminent Scholar at Florida State University.
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Opera singer (tenor).
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Great Performances
2005
TV Series
Vanderdendur / Prince Ragotski
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
2001
TV Movie
Pirelli
The Metropolitan Opera Presents
1990
TV Series
Idreno
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Great Performances
2005
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
2001
TV Movie performer: "Pirelli's Miracle Elexir"
Known for movies
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert (2001) as Pirelli
The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1990) as Idreno
Great Performances (2005) as Prince Ragotski / Vanderdendur
$9 Million
