Adam Klein, tenor
General Biography, updated May 2012
Tenor ADAM KLEIN, of Setauket, N.Y., began in opera as a child at the Metropolitan in New York, as Yniold in PELLƒAS ET MƒLISANDE and Zweiter Knabe in DIE ZAUBERFL…TE.  Since 2000, he has sung lead roles at the Met in DAS RHEINGOLD, THE NOSE, Z MRTVEHO DOMU, HANSEL AND GRETEL, JENUFA, PIQUE DAME, DIALOGUES DES CARMƒLITES, WAR AND PEACE, MAZEPPA, LE ROSSIGNOL, SALOME and ARABELLA; and has also understudied many other principal parts, most recently Gandhi in Philip Glass's SATYAGRAHA.  Regionally he has performed major roles in many well-known operas from ARIADNE AUF NAXOS to DIE ZAUBERFL…TE, in cities across North America including Seattle, the two Portlands, San Francisco, Dallas, Central City, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Boston and Buffalo, among many others.  Just to list the roles from the standard repertory: Bacchus, Canio, Cavaradossi, Chevalier Delaforce, Des Grieux (Puccini), Don JosŽ, Duke of Mantua, Edgardo, Erik, Florestan, Grimoaldo, Herod, Hoffmann, Judge Danforth, Loge, Luigi, Manrico, Otello (Verdi), Radames, Rinuccio, Rodolfo, Siegmund, Steva, Tamino, Tristan and Werther.  His musicianship and versatility have landed him jobs in difficult roles by Britten, Berg, Busoni, Dusapin, Schoenberg, Shostakovich and Stravinsky.

On the concert stage, when his opera career has allowed him the time, Mr. Klein holds the distinction of most solo appearances with the New York Choral Society, including the tenor solos in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Janacek's Otce Nas, Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus, and Mahler's Eighth Symphony, which he also performed with the Boston Philharmonic. He also appeared in all three concerts given by Three Tenors: The Next Generation.

Commercially he has recorded Mime on the Naxos recording "Scenes from Lohengrin and Siegfried", the Doctor in Robert Ashley's IMPROVEMENT: DON LEAVES LINDA for Elektra/Nonesuch, and a vocal solo on If, Bwana's I, ANGELICA on the Pogus label.  Also an accomplished recording technician and composer, Klein has privately produced many CDs of his own concerts and compositions, including two operas: LEITHIAN, based on a story by J. R. R. Tolkien, which premiered in concerts in 2006 and 2007 in New York City; and GOLDIE LOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS, a children's opera about tolerance based on the classic fairy tale.  Soundfiles of both operas, as well as many opera arias, can be heard at his website, "www.adamcjklein.us".

For more specific information, please refer to the resume at the website.