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| Kelly Markgraf |
Kelly Markgraf is returning to Madison Opera this season, a year after his successful debut with the company in Mozart's
Don Giovanni. He'll be going from seducer to sinister, as he takes on the villainous Don Pizarro in Beethoven's
Fidelio opening on Friday, November 21st with an additional performance on Sunday, November 23rd.
This will be Madison Opera's first fully staged performance of Beethoven's only opera in their 53-year history. He'll be joined by soprano Alexandra LoBianco as Leonore and tenor Clay Hilley as Florestan. Tickets and additional cast information are available
online.
The opera is being performed almost on the anniversary of its premiere in Vienna on November 20, 1805.
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| Markgraf as Don Pizarro |
Markgraf grew up 100 miles away in Cedarburg, Wisconsin where he was captain of his high school soccer team. Markgraf currently resides in Houston, Texas with his wife, the amazing mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke. When not singing, he runs a tea import business.
You can read an interview with Kelly Markgraf on the Madison Opera blog by clicking
HERE.
You can follow him on Twitter
@KellyMarkgraf.
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