Dale Duesing
Dale Duesing is an American baritone. As an opera singer, he has had an international career spanning five decades.
Duesing grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied piano throughout childhood, and enrolled at Lawrence University, majoring in piano performance. He switched to vocal performance while in college, and won the Metropolitan Opera Competition in his final year of study. After traveling to Europe with a Fulbright Scholarship, Duesing made a name for himself there.
Duesing has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Paris Opéra, and Covent Garden, among others.
He appeared at the Metropolitan from 1979 to 1989 in Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Zauberflöte, Pagliacci, Don Pasquale, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Pelléas et Mélisande, Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, and Die Fledermaus.
In 2020, Mr Duesing was seen as the Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen in The Netherlands.
The baritone has also sung under the direction of Karl Böhm, Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Carlo Maria Giulini, Edo de Waart, Herbert von Karajan, and Seiji Ozawa.
In 1993, Duesing received a Grammy Award for his 1991 recording of Samuel Barber's The Lovers with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was named the Singer of the Year by Opernwelt magazine in 1994. Duesing made his debut as director at Frankfurt Opera with Il viaggio a Reims.
Other of his recordings include Così fan tutte, Hans Zender's Stephen Climax, and La vie avec un idiot. On DVD are Wozzeck and Moses und Aron.
