Opera News on Habersham, Colaneri, Ollarsaba, Pearce, and Mayes at The Glimmerglass Festival
Opera News has turned in its report from summer 2022's festival at Glimmerglass. . . Holy Ground "Lyric-coloratura Jasmine Habersham did...
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RICHARD OLLARSABA
BASS-BARITONE
BIOGRAPHY
Mexican-American bass-baritone, Richard Ollarsaba, praised by The Washington Post for his “meltingly smooth bass-baritone” and for “evoking a young Ruggero Raimondi in looks and manner,” represented the USA in the 2019 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, was a member of the prestigious Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago for three seasons and a grand finalist in the 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Mr. Ollarsaba was recently featured in one of his signature roles, Escamillo in Carmen, as part of Francesca Zambello’s final season at The Glimmerglass Festival. In 2022-2023, he will bring his Escamillo to Portland Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
Other engagements for the season include reprising his celebrated Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at Knoville Opera, joining Chicago Opera Theater as Fred Clayton and others in The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing, bowing with Master Chorale of South Florida in Verdi’s Requiem, and returning to Palm Beach Symphony as soloist in Handel’s Messiah. Engagements for the 2021-2022 season included the title role in Don Giovanni with Opera Grand Rapids and Opera Carolina,
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