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Dr. Harry N. Dunstan
Founding Director
The American Center for Puccini Studies
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HARRY DUNSTAN, tenor and Founding Artistic Director of The American Center for Puccini Studies, has appeared with major regional orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. As a performer who looks forward toward authentic, historically informed performances, he is equally at home on the opera, concert, or recital stage and his repertoire ranges from early to contemporary music, including roles in Haydn’s L’isola disabitata, Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, and Kari Juusela’s modern opera, Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland, winner of the Vienna State Opera Award.
Recent operatic performances have included Cavaradossi in Tosca (“...rich and vibrant voice...” Gazette); Roberto in Puccini’s Le villi; Luigi in ll tabarro, the title role in Puccini’s Edgar; Rodolfo in La boheme (“...a bright and booming voice.” Palm Beach Post); and Marcello in the rarely heard Leoncavallo La boheme. He has appeared as The Prince in Sweethearts for the Maytime Light Opera Company (“...gorgeous natural lyric tenor...stylishly exploited.” Washington Post); the Besenbinder in Humperdinck’s Die Königskinder for Sarasota Opera; and as Don Jose in Carmen and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly for the Society of the Classical Arts (FL).
He has been a featured soloist at such venues as the Kennedy Center, Wolftrap, Constitution Hall, the Smithsonian Museum, and the Organization of American States. He was the featured soloist in the Papal mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II, which was seen by an international audience of over 200 million. His singing has been featured on all major television and cable networks in both national and international broadcasts: as the featured soloist for the Corpus Christi Symphony’s Star Spangled Fourth! (“His performance created a wildly enthusiastic audience.” Corpus Christi Post) and Night in Vienna also with Corpus Christi; in National Public Radio’s broadcast of Naughty Marietta; and as the voice of Otello in the Love Duet for the popular TV sitcom, Big Brother Jake.
As a stage director, he has directed operas for music festivals both in the United States and Europe, including productions of The Telephone, The Old Maid and the Thief, A Hand of Bridge, and the world premier of Vignettes of Passion.
In addition to his performing career, Dr. Dunstan is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the life, works, and performing practices of Giacomo Puccini, and his doctoral thesis on Puccini is quickly gaining international attention for its contribution to Puccini scholarship worldwide. Dr. Dunstan is a frequent lecturer at major universities and acts as consultant to a number of opera companies in the United States and Europe.
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