Lance Ryan was born on 1 May 1971 and is a Canadian operatic tenor, who has worked from Germany since 2005.
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Lance Ryan is known for singing Siegfried in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, which he performed at opera houses in Europe including the Bayreuth Festival.
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Lance Ryan performed the title roles of Verdi's Otello and Britten's Peter Grimes.
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Lance Ryan first studied music history and classical guitar at the Douglas College in New Westminster, later at the University of British Columbia.
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Lance Ryan began to train his voice there, which he continued in Europe, with the Italian tenors Gianni Raimondi and Carlo Bergonzi among others.
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Lance Ryan moved to Germany in 2005 and became a member of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, singing roles such as Wagner's Siegmund in Die Walkure and Lohengrin, the Emperor in Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss and Calaf in Puccini's Turandot.
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Lance Ryan appeared at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden as the Emperor in Die Frau ohne Schatten.
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Lance Ryan performed at international festivals such as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Salzburg Festival.
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Lance Ryan was Siegfried at the Bayreuth Festival in 2010,2013 and 2014, each time both in Siegfried and Gotterdammerung.
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Lance Ryan appeared internationally in major opera houses in Europe and in New York.
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Lance Ryan performed the part of Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Lance Ryan sang the title role of Enee in Berlioz's Les Troyens in 2010 at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia and the title role of Verdi's Otello at the Oper Frankfurt in 2012, and Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio at the Vienna State Opera.
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Lance Ryan performed the title role of Britten's Peter Grimes in Wiesbaden in 2017, conducted by Albert Horne.