Joshua Stewart
A leading proponent of contemporary opera, American tenor Joshua Stewart enjoys a successful career singing standard and rarely-heard works. Last season’s highlights include his critically acclaimed performances in the roles of Street and Elijah in Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at Seattle Opera, and he garnered further excellent reviews for his portrayal of Pelegrin New Year at Birmingham Opera Company. Based in Berlin, he returned to the Barbican for Jose Garcia’s 1826 Messa di Santa Cecilia with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Future engagements include the 2024-25 season opening of City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Bacchus Ariadne auf Naxos with Israeli Opera, and the title role Idomeneo in a major European opera house yet to be announced.
The artist’s previous appearances include the role of Valcour L’amant Anonyme and the role of Jonah The Time of our Singing, both at Theater St Gallen in Switzerland; his debut as Rodolfo La Boheme with Columbus Symphony, his debut as Son in the highly acclaimed new work Blue at Seattle Opera, his debut in the title role Albert Herring at Princeton Festival in the US, the tenor soloist Sanctuary Road with Chautauqua Symphony, and George Walker’s Mass and Tippet’s A Child of our Time, both with BBC Symphony Orchestra.
“As Elijah Muhammad, Joshua Stewart stood out from the very first for his impressive clarion vocality. The voice sounded glorious in all registers, and especially in the top range, where the tessitura was challenging.” Erica Miner, Broadway World, February 25, 2024.
“Joshua Stewart as Parker masterfully navigates the challenging score, adapting with jazzier vocals or powerful vibratos.” Crystal Paul, Seattle Times, 25 February 2020
“As “king of saxophone” Charlie Parker, New Orleans native Joshua Stewart’s clarion tenor projected superbly, with spot-on operatic placement from the low to high ranges and in some notable Mozartian flourishes, poignant soul style, and deftness. He handled the stratospheric tessitura and dramatic demands of this non-stop tour de force with such great proficiency that the audience practically raised the roof with their applause at the end.”
Erica Miner, Bachtrack, 23 February 2020
Argento: Postcard from Morocco (Lyric Tenor)
Barber: Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40 (Caesar)
Battistelli: Wake (Lazarus)
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Tebaldo)
Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 (Hauptmann)
Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti {Tenor (Jazz Trio)}
Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39 (Mr. Upfold)
Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore (Nemorino)
Golijov: Ainadamar (Ruiz Alonso)
Henze: Elegy for Young Lovers (Toni Reischmann)
Martinu: Mirandolina, H 346 (Conte d’Albafiorita)
Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Eurimaco)
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K 384 (Belmonte)
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K 527 (Don Ottavio)
Mozart: Idomeneo, K 366 (Idomeneo)
Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tirésias (Mari)
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (Trin)
Puccini: La Rondine (Prunier)
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Conte d’Almaviva)
Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims (Conte di Libenskof, Cavaliere Belfiore)
Rossini: Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (Giove)
Rossini: Zelmira (Antenore)
Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress (Tom Rakewell)
Thomas: Mignon (Wilhelm Meister)
Concert
Beethoven: Fantasia in C minor, Op. 80 “Choral Fantasy”
Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
Haydn: Missa in Angustiis (Lord Nelson Mass)
Haydn: Missa in tempore belli, H 22 no 9 “Paukenmesse”
Haydn: Te Deum in C major, H 23c no 1
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K 626
Orff: Carmina Burana
Puccini: Messa di Gloria
Respighi: Lauda per la Natività del Signore
Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Recital
Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes (18), Op. 52
Brahms: Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103 (Gypsy Songs)
Britten: Canticle II, Op. 51 “Abraham and Isaac”
Britten: Canticle III, Op. 55 “Still falls the Rain”Play
Britten: Sonnets (7) of Michelangelo, Op. 22
Liszt: Tre sonetti di Petrarca, S 270
Menotti: Songs (5)
Messiaen: La mort du nombre
Vaughan Williams: Blake Songs (10) for Voice and Oboe
Vaughan Williams: Four Hymns
Contact
Deborah Sanders
Founder and Director
deborah@arbourartists.com