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Heldentenor Kevin Hanek’s upcoming engagements include his debut in the title role of Verdi’s Otello in June 2012, in a production with New York’s Delaware Valley Opera. In August he travels to St. Louis to sing Loge in Das Rheingold with Union Avenue Opera, the first installment in a new Ring cycle that the company is producing. He is a 2012 Grantee of the International Festival Society, and recently returned from a European audition tour, where he sang his first stage auditions for the Opéra National de Paris, English National Opera, and Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu. Mr. Hanek was represented by Hubbard-Levine Management for the 2008–2010 seasons, and debuted as tenor soloist in performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Reno Philharmonic in April 2010. He performed Erik in a staged concert version of Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at New York’s Bechstein Piano Centre, appeared as Riccardo in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera and Radamès in Aïda in staged productions with Bulgaria’s Burgas Philharmonic Orchestra, and sang the Majordomo in the New York premiere of Hans Werner Henze’s The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt) with Encompass New Opera Theatre. Kevin Hanek received an Emerging Artist Grant from the Hillsborough County Arts Council for his debut recital with pianist Norman Shetler, and performed with the Sarasota Opera as an Apprentice Artist.

 
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“As Erik, tenor Kevin Hanek sang eloquently, easily managing the role’s demanding declamation as well as its more tender passages.”

The New York Informer, November 15, 2008 (Erik, Der fliegende Holländer, Bechstein Piano Centre, New York)

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