Stephen Gould (tenor)

**Stephen Grady Gould** (Janairu 24, 1962 - Satumba 19, 2023) ɗan ƙasar Amirka ne mai gudanarwa kuma babban mai fassara ayyukan Richard Wagner. Ya yi kusan sau 100 a Bikin Bayreuth, musamman a matsayin Tannhäuser tun daga shekara ta 2004, kuma daga baya Siegfried da Tristan. A cikin 2022, aikinsa a cikin dukkan matsayi uku ya ba shi laƙabi kamar Iron Man .

Gould ya bayyana a manyan gidajen wasan kwaikwayo a duk duniya. Ayyukansa wadanda ba na Wagner ba sun haɗa da matsayin Bulus a cikin Korngold's Die tote Stadt, Bacchus a cikin Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, rawar da Britten's *Peter Grimes*, Sarkin sarakuna a cikin Strausse' Die Frau ohne Schatten, rawar da Verdi's Otello, Aeneas a cikin Berlioz's Les Troyens, da kuma rawar da William Bolcom's *McTeague*. A cikin kide-kide, ya yi a cikin Symphony na tara na Beethoven, Gurre-Lieder na Schoenberg, da *Das Lied von der Erde* na Mahler.

## Rayuwa da aiki
An haifi Stephen Grady Gould a Roanoke, Virginia, a ranar 24 ga Janairu, 1962, ɗan Loren Gould, ministan Baptist, da Annie (née Brown), pianist wanda ya koyar a makarantu. Gould ya fara karatu a matsayin baritone a Jami'ar Olivet Nazarene, ya kammala karatu tare da digiri na farko a shekarar 1984.[1] Daga baya ya yi karatu a New England Conservatory of Music a Boston tare da John Moriarty, sannan ya zama memba na Lyric Opera na Cibiyar Harkokin Amurka.

A shekara ta 1989, ya shiga Chris Merritt a Los Angeles Opera a matsayin Argirio a cikin Rossini's *Tancredi*, tare da Marilyn Horne .   Ba tare da haɗin wasan kwaikwayo na dindindin ba, Gould ya saurara don yawon shakatawa na farko na Amurka na Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera kuma an yarda da shi, yana yin rawar maza sama da wasanni 3,000.

### Tenor
Bayan barin The Phantom of the Opera, Gould ya yi tunanin cewa aikinsa na waka ya ƙare yadda ya kamata, har sai da ya sadu kuma ya fara karatu tare da John Fiorito, malamin murya da ke da alaƙa da Metropolitan Opera a Birnin New York, wanda ya sake yin amfani da fasahar muryar Gould gaba ɗaya don ya iya raira waƙa da ke riƙe da repertoire. A kan shawarar Fiorito, Gould ya watsar da yin wasan kwaikwayo na ɗan lokaci kuma ya yi karatu tare da Fiorito na tsawon shekaru uku da maraice tare da aikin rana. A watan Janairun 2000, ya fara bayyana a matsayin mai gudanarwa a Landestheater Linz a matsayin Florestan a cikin *Fidelio* na Beethoven .   Zubin Mehta ya gayyace shi don yin aiki a matsayin Melot a cikin Wagner's Tristan und Isolde a Bavarian State Opera a shekara ta 2001, a cikin samarwar da Peter Konwitschny ya jagoranta. A shekara ta 2002, ya bayyana a matsayin Aeneas a cikin Les Troyens na Berlioz a Maggio Musicale Fiorentino tare da Mehta, kuma shekara guda daga baya a wannan bikin kamar Otello na Verdi. Ya yi aikinsa na farko na Wagner a Landestheater Linz a 2002 a matsayin Tannhäuser . 

#### Bayreuth
Gould ya  bayyana a Bikin Bayreuth a shekara ta 2004 a matsayin *Tannhäuser*,    wanda Christian Thielemann ya jagoranta. A shekara ta 2006 ya yi a bikin a matsayin Siegfried a cikin Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen,  wanda Tankred Dorst ya shirya kuma Thielemann ya sake gudanarwa.  "Halin Tannhäuser ya fi dacewa da ni fiye da Siegfried", in ji Gould ga Forum Opéra a watan Disamba na shekara ta 2007.  Ya fara aiki a matsayin Tristan a can a shekarar 2015, wanda Katharina Wagner ta jagoranta kuma Thielemann ta jagorantar.   Ya bayyana a matsayin Siegmund a Die Walküre a cikin 2018, kuma a matsayin Parsifal a cikin wasan kwaikwayo a cikin 2021. Gould ya yi a bikin kusan sau 100 a cikin shirye-shirye 20.   Waƙar Tannhäuser, Siegfried da Tristan a bikin 2022  ya ba shi laƙabi Wagner Marathon Man  da Iron Man. Tannhäuser shine samarwar da Tobias Kratzer ya shirya, tare da rawar da take takawa a matsayin mai bakin ciki, kuma  [de] ne ya shirya *Götterdämmerung*. Gould ya ce a cikin wata hira a lokacin: "Wagner tunani ne, mantra", yana fatan zurfin ruhaniya, ba nishaɗi ba.

#### Opera na Jihar Vienna
Gould ya fara yin wasan kwaikwayo a Vienna State Opera a matsayin Paul a cikin samar da 2004 na Korngold's Die tote Stadt .  Ya yi rawar Wagner sau da yawa a can a tsawon shekaru. Ya bayyana a matsayin Erik a cikin Wagner's Der *Fliegende Holländer* daga 2007, a matsayin Bacchus a Ariadne auf Naxos na Richard Strauss daga 2012, a cikin rawar da Britten's *Peter Grimes* ya taka a 2016, a matsayin Tristan a 2018, a matsayin Sarkin sarakuna a Die Frau ohne Schatten na Richard Strausse a cikin 2019, kuma a matsayin Verdi's Otello a cikin 2020. A Opera na Jiha, ya bayyana a kan mataki a cikin wasanni 105.