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| Escamillo |
| Lyric baritone role (sometimes sung by a bass). He is a toreador. |
| Year |
| Artist |
| 1927 |
| Desiré Defrère |
| 1928 |
| 1931 |
| 1934 |
| 1936 |
| 1940 |
| 1941 |
| 1959 |
| Frank Guarrera |
| 1943 |
| 1960 |
| 1944 |
| 1945 |
| 1951 |
| 1953 |
| Frank Guarrera |
| 1955 |
| Cornell MacNeil |
| 1962 |
| Thomas Stewart |
| 2001-2002 |
| Denis Sedov |
| 1966 |
| Frank Guarrera |
| 1970 |
| José van Dam |
| 1981 |
| Simon Estes |
| 1991 |
| 1996-1997 |
| 1998 sum |
| Jeffrey Wells |
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| San Francisco Opera Escamillo History |
| * Reviews from Arthur Bloomfield's 1922-1978 The San Francisco Opera. |
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| Robert Weede |
| Francesco Valentino |
| 1946 |
| Mack Harrell |
| George Czaplicki |
| 1949 |
| Francesco Valentino |
| Giuseppe Valdengo |
| Robert Hale |
| Lenus Carlson |
| 1984 |
| 1998 sum |
| Mark S. Doss |
| 1948 |
| Giuseppe Valdengo |
| 1959 |
| Mario Zanasi |
| Mario Zanasi |
| 1964 |
| Joshua Hecht |
| 1991 |
| Dimitri Kharitonov |
| David Okerlund/replaced |
| 2001-2002 |
| 1942 |
| John Brownlee |
| 2001-2002 |
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| Aria Data Base for Escamillo |
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| Kyle Ketelsen |
| 2005-2006 |
| Kristopher Irmiter |
| 2005-2006 |
| 2002-Denis Sedov came on in Act 2 for the "Toreador Song" and promptly fell prey to an attack of stage fright that was something for the record books -- his body quaking so that he could barely stand, his voice quavering and collapsing into unpredictable yelps./ Review |
| 2006-The evening's most impressive debut, though, came from American bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen as Escamillo, the swaggering toreador who succeeds Don José in Carmen's affections. He dispatched the famous Toreador Song with ample tone, even in the treacherous low phrases that so often fade into inaudibility, and he brought a measure of romantic ardor to the final scene with Carmen./ Review 2006 |
| As Escamillo, Kyle Ketelsen sang elegantly and presented a sufficiently dashing matador. One blemish in his toreador scene had nothing to do with him. As he was singing this showcase aria, Zuniga was mimicking him, diverting focus from one of the opera’s great moments. . . making the venerated figure of the matador — a macho hero — into a figure to be mocked and ridiculed. -SF Artworld Note: I beg to differ — There was no 'mocking' but 'hero worshipping', and this added to credibility of the scene and the rather smallish toreador./ Review 2006 |
| Lenus Carlson |
| 1981 |
| Bass-baritone Kristopher Irmiter, a former participant in the Merola Opera Program, was a gravel-toned and vocally recessive Escamillo. / Review 2006 |
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