User:Voiceperson/Ryan Allen

Hello. I would like to publish this article and would appreciate suggestions from experienced editors. As to footnotes, there are three listed. One can be checked via the internet, one must be checked using a telephone, and the last may be checked in a library. I don't know if one can use a footnote for a telephone call, but I wish to refer to the Carnegie Hall records, and there is nothing printed. I had to call and speak with the archivist to verify my information. I have attempted to include clear instructions to check the telephone footnotes. Thank you. - Voiceperson

These are my references:

1. Metopera Database (http://66.187.153.86/archives/frame.htm), Keyword Search:  Ryan Allen; performance date, 01/23/1993.

2. Carnegie Hall Archives, USA:  Telephone 212-903-9750. Request the Archivist "search" soloist, "Ryan Allen."

3. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell, 2004. Copyright: Macmillian Publishers Limited, 1980

Article:

Ryan Allen

American bass singer, especially noted for operatic character roles. Ryan Allen debuted at the Metropolitan Opera  in 1993 as Hans Foltz in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner. The singer has performed professionally in all 50 states, appeared with numerous American opera companies, and sung as a soloist in Russia, Israel, Poland, Norway and Sweden. Entering the field of opera as an experienced actor, the bass's repertoire favors roles with character development and stage movement. These roles range from the comic Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioacchino Rossini to the pathetic Candy in Of Mice and Men by Carlisle Floyd. Mr. Allen has also appeared as an oratorio soloist with various symphony orchestras and oratorio societies. In 1989 he debuted at Carnegie Hall, singing the bass solos in Mozart's Requiem. A lyric bass with wide vocal range, he has sung in public from low C to high G. Mr. Allen has participated in several world premieres, including Holy Blood and Crescent Moon by Stewart Copeland with the Cleveland Opera, and The Cask of Amontillado by Russell Currie at Golden Fleece, Ltd. in New York City. Caliban, a monodrama by Russell Currie using the words of the character Caliban from Shakespeare's The Tempest, was written for and dedicated to him. Ryan Allen can be heard as Elviro on a 1994 recording of Handel's Xerxes (Koch Schwann) and seen as Betto on a video of Gianni Schicchi (Metropolitan Opera Guild). He graduated with a B.A. in English from Austin College in Sherman, Texas and an M.M. from the University of Texas at Austin. The bass lives in the Greater New York vicinity in Edgewater, NJ, where he resides with his wife, Stephanie Samaras (www.stephaniesamaras.com), a noted vocal technician in "Pop" styles.