countertenor

During the early years of his career, Andrey Nemzer has become distinguished for the unique size, flexibility, and range of his instrument. He is the winner of 3rd Prize for Male Voice in the 2014 Operalia Competition, held in Los Angeles, California.

Mr. Nemzer’s 2014-2015 season includes his debut with The Opera San Antonio as Agnes the Digger in Tobias Picker’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and covering the role of Arsace in San Francisco Opera’s production of Partenope.

During the early years of his career, Andrey Nemzer has become distinguished for the unique size, flexibility, and range of his instrument. He is the winner of 3rd Prize for Male Voice in the 2014 Operalia Competition, held in Los Angeles, California.

Mr. Nemzer’s 2014-2015 season includes his debut with The Opera San Antonio as Agnes the Digger in Tobias Picker’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and covering the role of Arsace in San Francisco Opera’s production of Partenope.

A Winner of the 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council Grand Finals, Andrey Nemzer returned to their stage in 2013-2014, performing the role of the Guardian in Die Frau ohne Schatten and also covered the role of Orlofsky in their new production of Die Fledermaus. That season’s engagements also included the Pittsburgh Symphony for Orff’s Carmina Burana.

In the 2012-2013 season, Mr. Nemzer covered the title role of Giulio Cesare in a new production for the Metropolitan Opera, and joined the Rhode Island Phiharmonic for Handel’s Messiah. The artist, who is a native of Moscow, Russia, recently completed studies for an Artist Diploma at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Andrey Nemzer was the winner of the 2011 Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition, a Second Prize winner of the 2012 Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, and a prizewinner in the 2010 Pittsburgh Baroque Competition.

Performances

Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory | December 7, 2014

News and Press

[Concert Review] American Record Guide reviews Fantastic Mr. Fox

Boston's Jordan Hall was host to a concert version of Tobias Picker's 1998 setting of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox on December 7. A good-sized crowd from very young to older folks had assembled to hear Gil Rose lead his two ensembles, Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera, in a costumed semi-staged performance of this "family opera". Picker prefers to use this term to describe his morality tale, fearing that "children's opera" is a term frightened with an assumption of "dumbing-down".

American Record Guide Full review
[Concert Review] Animals Cavort for Odyssey Opera

Youngsters arrived in droves for the Boston premiere of Tobias Picker’s Fantastic Mr. Fox in Sunday afternoon’s Jordan Hall collaboration among the Boston Modern Opera Project, Odyssey Opera, and the Boston Children’s Chorus (Anthony Trecek-King, director). Albeit scrubbed of the assassination, murder, or suicide that characterizes the rest of the composer’s work in the genre, Fox is not an inevitable children’s opera.

The Boston Musical Intelligencer Full review
[Concert Review] BMOP, Odyssey Opera play for the kids at Jordan Hall

Neither the Boston Modern Orchestra Project nor Odyssey Opera is well known for its children’s programming, so it was a particular pleasure to see the dozens of pint-size opera-goers filing into Jordan Hall excitedly on Sunday afternoon. The occasion was Tobias Picker’s family opera, “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” with a libretto by Donald Sturrock adapted from the story by Roald Dahl.

The Boston Globe Full review