Hi every­one:

Happy New Year (a lit­tle late)!  I’ve had a great past few months with a debut in Otello of Verdi in Venice, a won­der­ful return visit to Annapo­lis, Mary­land for my bi-annual Mes­siah with the Mid­ship­men, a great Christ­mas at home with my beau­ti­ful girls (albeit I was rather sick the whole time), New Years in Barcelona and two very excit­ing con­certs of Il Pirata at the Liceu with Mariella Devia and now hav­ing com­pleted one of the two con­certs of I Vespri Sicil­iani here in Athens, I’ve finally got­ten around to updat­ing my schedule.

There are some excit­ing addi­tions includ­ing a return this Novem­ber to Venice for Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine and after a 12 year absence, I’ve been invited to come back to La Scala, Milan in April of 2014 for David McVikar’s pro­duc­tion of Berlioz’ Les Troyens with Anto­nio Pap­pano conducting.

I feel extremely blessed to be able to do this incred­i­ble job and I thank you for your con­tin­ued sup­port.  I look for­ward to see­ing you all some­where soon!!

Greg

HI EVERYONE:

Our pre­miere of Verdi’s Otello will be streamed live this evening at 19:00 CET (1:00 pm EST) and you can access it by click­ing the link and then click­ing again on “ASCOLTA RADIO 3 LIVE”.  Hope you can join us tonight!!!

http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/radio3/programmi/puntata/ContentItem-06ed46fa-70cd-4ae4-98dd-d76ec5bda19d.html

Hi Every­one:

Yes, can you believe it? I’m actu­ally post­ing some­thing! I’ve been putting it off and putting it off and finally I sat down today and UPDATED MY SCHEDULE!!  You can find it on the sched­ule page in a new for­mat as well.  It is as up-to-date as can be (except for a cou­ple of projects yet to be con­firmed) so I hope this will take away any ques­tions and con­cerns some of you may have had.

Some of the new things are (as most of you already have heard) Otello (of VERDI!!) in Novem­ber at La Fenice in Venice, which will be my debut there, then a Jan­u­ary return to the Liceu in Barcelona for a debut as Gualtiero in Il Pirata with Mariella Devia for two con­cert per­for­mances. Next, I’ll return to the Megaron in Athens with the Greek National Opera for I Vespri Sicil­iani, then I’ll head directly to Bil­bao to start rehearsals for Les Vêpres Sicili­enne (IN FRENCH!! AM I CRAZY?!).  You can click on the high­lighted links to direct you to the the­atre web­sites for more information.

Thank you all for your con­tin­ued sup­port, good wishes, prayers and kind words.

Look for more updates as we con­tinue to roll along on this unbe­liev­able ride. I promise to do this more often!

All the best,

Greg

Hi All:

Finally…I have been able to update my sched­ule on the web­site.  A cou­ple of new things for next year, but a lot of things for future years.  Hope to see you some­where, sometime!

Hi every­one!

Just a quick update.  We will open Semi­ramide on Fri­day evening here in Naples..sur­prise!!  We have a won­der­ful Semi­ramide, Laura Aikin who brings a great dra­matic com­mand to the part.  Sil­via Tro Santafe as Arsace and Simone Albergh­ini as Assur round out an excel­lent cast led by Gabriele Ferro in the pit.  Luca Ronconi’s new pro­duc­tion will be a fit­ting open­ing night treat.  This will mark my return to Idreno, the part that got me started as a true Rossini singer in Pesaro in 1992.  It’s been about 6 years since I’ve sung this role and I am every excited to sing it again, espe­cially here at the San Carlo in front of such a great pub­lic.  Open­ing night will be broad­cast on RAI Radio3 on Fri­day evening begin­ning at 19:00 CET (1:00 pm EST).

Here’s the link if you’re inter­ested:  http://www.rai.tv/dl/RaiTV/popup/player_radio.html?v=3

Enjoy!!