George Shirley

GEORGE SHIRLEY (tenor), Joseph Edgar Maddy Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Voice, University of Michigan, is in demand nationally and internationally as performer, teacher and lecturer. He has won international acclaim for his performances in the world’s great opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera (New York), Royal Opera (Covent Garden, London), Deutsche Opera (Berlin), Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), Netherlands Opera (Amsterdam), L’Opera de Monte Carlo, New York City Opera, Scottish Opera (Glasgow), Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington Opera (Kennedy Center), Michigan Opera Theatre, Glyndebourne Festival, and Santa Fe Opera.

In 1999, he performed the role of Eumete in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with the Glimmerglas Opera in Cooperstown, NY, as well as narrations for Charles Ives’ Three Places in New England with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded for RCA, Columbia, Decca, Angel, Vanguard, CRI, and Philips and received a Grammy Award in 1968 for his role (Ferrando) in the RCA recording of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte.

In 199_, Mr. Shirley joined Ingo Titze at the University of Iowa to study topics of voice registration and vocal vibrato in the vocology program. Shirley, Titze, and Linda Carroll gave a concert at Clapp Recital Hall as a highlight of their collaborative studies. The recording was live and unedited.