Tenor Kurt Lehmann has been hailed as “…one of Canada’s most dependable tenors.
He has the “money notes” clear, clean and romantic delivery.” His international career
has taken him to Carnegie Hall in NYC for Verdi’s REQUIEM as well as engagements
with most Symphonic Orchestras and Opera Companies across Canada. He has appeared
in many cities in the USA including Detroit, Dallas, Naples, Pittsburgh, New York City
and a European concert with the Pecs Symphony of Hungary
Of particular note was his debut engagement at Glimmerglass Opera as the violin-
playing Orpheus in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. Mr. Lehmann was
selected for this role after a continent-wide search for lyric tenors who were also
virtuoso violinists.
Puccini and Verdi dominate his Opera career including La Bohème, La Traviata,
Madama Butterfly, Otello, and Turandot, as well as Der Fliegende Holländer, Romeo et
Juliette, Eugene Onegin, Ermione, La Rondine, Dialogues des Carmelites, Of Mice and
Men, Dead Man Walking, Die Zauberflote, Daphne, Die Fledermaus, Der Zigeuner
Baron, Die CzardasFuerstin, and Countess Mariza.
On the Concert stage, he was heard in The Messiah, Elijah, Kroenungsmesse, Mass in
C minor, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Das Lied von der Erde and Victor Davies’
REVELATION. Mr. Lehmann was engaged by the Toronto Symphony for a work written
and conducted by Bramwell Tovey for its “Last Night at the Proms” concerts at Roy
Thompson Hall.
