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- Anthony Rolfe Johnson is an English tenor singer. Born in Tackley, he studied with Ellis Keeler and Vera Rosza at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He first appeared in opera in the chorus and in small roles at the Glyndebourne Festival between 1972 and 1976. His major operatic debut was in Iolanthe in 1973 with the English Opera Group. He has been recorded in of Handel's oratorios, taken the role of Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion, and sung solos in Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten and Die Schöpfung. Operas he has recorded include Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito, and Britten's Peter Grimes and also appeared in the latter's War Requiem, amongst many others. He has performed much early music, including Monteverdi's Ulysses and Orfeo. He has performed at the world's major opera houses, including the English National Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Monnaie in Brussels, La Scala, Milan, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, the Vienna State Opera, and the Paris Opera. He sang Polixenes in the world premiere of Philippe Boesman's adaptation of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Aside from opera, he has appeared in concert with the world's major symphony orchestras, such as the New York Philharmonic and Boston Philharmonic, and conductors, such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Seiji Ozawa. He has also given song recitals with Graham Johnson, many of which they have recorded; he was a founder member of Graham Johnson's The Songmakers' Almanac. In 1988 he re-launched the Gregynog Festival, remaining its artistic director until 2006. He was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1992.
- Anthony Rolfe Johnson ist ein englischer Tenor. Anthony Rolfe Johnson studierte an der Guildhall School of Music and Drama London. Nachdem er sein Studium beendet hatte wurde er schon bald mit dem Eva Turner Bursary-Preis ausgezeichnet. Weiterhin erhielt er den John Christie-Preis. Der Sänger konzertiert mit den renommiertesten Orchestern Europas und gab Gastspiele an den führenden Opernhäusern. Er arbeitete mit Dirigenten wie Georg Solti, Mstislaw Rostropowitsch, Carlo Maria Giulini, Antal Doráti, Bernard Haitink, Colin Davis sowie John Eliot Gardiner zusammen. Sein internationales Operndebüt gab Rolfe Johnson als Fenton beim Glyndebourne Festival in Südengland. Seine spezielle Stimme erlaubt ihm ein breites Repertoire, so ist er in den Titelpartien in Claudio Monteverdis Opern gleichsam wie in Johann Sebastian Bachs geistlichem Werk zuhause, interpretiert die Opern von Georg Friedrich Händel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und Joseph Haydn und ist ein gefeierter Darsteller in den Werken von Benjamin Britten. Seine spezielle Hingabe gilt aber auch dem deutschen und englischen Liedgut. Anlässlich der Queen's Birthday Honours im Jahr 1992 wurde Rolfe-Johnson zum Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E. ) ernannt. Anthony Rolfe Johnson ist Gründungsmitglied von Graham Johnson's The Songmaker's Almanac.
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