Ian Koziara
Tenor
© Kristin Hoebermann
The American tenor Ian Koziara is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his European debut in 2018/19 singing Fritz in a new production (and subsequent revival) of Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound, which was followed by Chabel in Rudi Stephan’s Die ersten Menschen / The First People (world premiere Frankfurt, 1920), to sing Filka Morozov in a revival of Janáček's From the House of the Dead and the title role in a new production of Parsifal. This former member of the Lindeman Young Artist Development Program has already appeared at the Met in New York in operas including Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel, Die Zauberflöte, La fanciulla del West, Parsifal and Nico Muhly’s Marnie. Born in Chicago, you can hear him this season as Froh in Das Rheingold at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and in the title role of Mozart's Idomeneo on tour through Europe with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under René Jacobs. Roles in recent seasons have included Loge in a new Ring des Nibelungen at the Tirol Festival in Erl, Tristan (Frank Martin's Le vin herbé), Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos) &Torquemada (L'heure espagnol) at Wolf Trap Opera, Mozart’s Tito at the Aspen Festival and Verdi’s Stiffelio with the Juilliard School Orchestra. Recent concert work has included Honegger's Le roi David with the New York Voices of Ascension, Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and Elgar's Dream of Gerontius. Ian Koziara studied at Rice University in Houston and was a member of highly respected programmes for young artists run by the opera houses in Houston and Des Moines, the Glimmerglass Festival and »The Song Continues« in the Carnegie Hall.