Bio : Artists
Anthony Dean Griffey : Tenor
Four-time Grammy Award Winning American tenor Anthony Dean Griffey has captured critical and popular acclaim on opera, concert and recital stages around the world with his beautiful and powerful lyric tenor voice, gift of dramatic interpretation and superb musicianship.
Appearing in leading roles at international opera houses include The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Glyndebourne, the Opera National de Paris, and the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, he is a regular guest of the world?s orchestras including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto and abroad in London, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, Glasgow, Amsterdam and Melbourne and popular festivals including Tanglewood, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Saito Kinen and the Proms in London. He has collaborated with many of today?s pre-eminent conductors, including James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Andrew Davis, Esa Pekka Salonen, Alan Gilbert, Kurt Masur, Donald Runnicles, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, James Conlon, and Charles Dutoit.
The 2010-2011 season saw appearances in the title role of Peter Grimes with the Houston Grand Opera and as Lennie in Of Mice and Men with Opera Australia. Symphonic appearances included Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Nashville Symphony, Britten's War Requiem at Carnegie Hall with Seiji Ozawa and the Saito Kinen Orchestra as well as with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony, and Mahler's Eighth Symphony with Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony.
Previous concert performances include Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with Valery Gergiev and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic; highlights from Beethoven's Fidelio and Symphony No. 9 with the New World Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas; Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, with the San Diego Symphony and the New York City Opera's Opening Gala.
Celebrated the world over for his powerful portrayal of the title role of Britten?s Peter Grimes his critically acclaimed 2008 performance of Grimes in a new production with the Metropolitan Opera was broadcast live in HD worldwide to movie theaters, featured on PBS and released on DVD (EMI Classics.) Also on DVD, Mr. Griffey can be seen in the Grammy winning Los Angeles Opera production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Euroarts) which also aired on PBS; in addition to his performance in the 1999 Metropolitan Opera Tristan und Isolde (DG/Universal), the world premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire (Image Entertainment) with the San Francisco Opera; and on TV has been featured as an Artist of the Week on A&E?s Breakfast with the Arts.
On compact disc, Anthony Dean Griffey's latest releases are Peter Grimes at Glyndebourne Opera with Mark Wigglesworth conducting as well as Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson with the Seattle Symphony on Naxos with Gerard Schwarz conducting. His latest concert release is Mahler's Symphony No. 8 (SFO) with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas also now on iTunes with the New York Philharmonic and Loren Maazel. Other recordings include the Britten War Requiem (LPO) recorded live with Kurt Masur and the London Philharmonic at Royal Festival Hall, André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire (DG), I Lombardi with James Levine (Decca/London), and Of Mice and Men with the Houston Grand Opera (Albany).
Anthony Dean Griffey holds degrees from Wingate University, the Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera?s Lindemann Young Artists Program.