With a voice described as a "rich lyric tenor," Steven Ebel continues to receive critical and popular acclaim for his work in concert, recital and opera. Mr. Ebel débuted as Victorin/Gaston in the UK and Royal Opera House premiere of Korngold's Die tote Stadt at Covent Garden before beginning his two-year with the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at London's Royal Opera House. His first performances as a Young Artist at ROH were of the world premiere of his own composition: Diary of a Young Poet. This piece Mr. Ebel, which uses poems by Rilke, was the centerpiece in a unique theatrical event combining three song cycles into a single work entitled "The Truth About Love" Mr. Ebel sang his own music in a staging directed by José Dario Innella. His ROH roles include Rimenes in Artaxerxes, Major Domo II in Der Rosenkavalier, The Hypochondriac Gambler in The Gambler, Albazar in Il Turco in Italia, and the Fourth Jew in Salome.

Last summer, he débuted in the inaugural season of Lorin Maazel's Castleton Festival as Peter Quint and returned to the Tanglewood Music Festival for an unprecedented third year to sing Eislinger in Die Meistersinger under the leadership of Maestro James Levine and Tenor I in Stravinsky's Renard, with staging by Mark Morris.

Mr. Ebel was personally selected by Maestro James Levine to sing the demanding role of Jimmy Mahoney in the Tanglewood Music Festival's new production of Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny for which he received unreserved praise. He also went on to sing the role when making his Italian début in the spring of Ô09 with Teatro Goldoni in Livorno, Lucca, Pisa and Ravenna. Last spring he also sang solo recitals at his alma mater, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in Cleveland. He sang his first Jaquino in Beethoven's Fidelio in New York, and appeared with New Music New York and at London's illustrious Wigmore Hall Competition.

He performed as soloist in Americans in Paris - Songs by American Students of Nadia and 21st Century Shakespeare Chamber Music inspired by the Bard for the New Millennium. He created the role of Wolf in the world premiere and NAXOS recording of Louis Karchin's Romulus. He was widely lauded for his company début with Opera Cleveland singing his first Peter Quint in Turn of the Screw.

At the outset of his career, Mr. Ebel sang leading roles in Bizet's Dr. Miracle and Orpheus in the Underworld, Lucia di Lammermoor, Iolanthe, and The Mikado. He also toured in Opera for the Young's production of Rusalka, and was The Prince in A Mermaid's Tale. He débuted with OperaDelaware as Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance and participated in the prestigious Tanglewood Music Festival under a fellowship grant. He sang the title role of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito with New York Opera Forum and New York Opera Studio, Donald in Douglas Moore's Gallantry with Cantiamo Opera and Il postiglione in Puccini's La Fanciulla del West at New York City Opera.

Mr. Ebel's many talents have been recognized with numerous honors from distinguished organizations including the Concours Musical International de Montréal, Joy of Singing Song Salon Competition, New York Oratorio Society Solo Competition, the Wigmore Hall Competition, the Five Towns Young Musician's Competition, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, Career Bridges and the Metropolitan Opera Auditions.

Steven Ebel
Member of the prestigious Jette Parker Young Artists Programme
Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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Steven Ebel will be the first singer in the history of London's Royal Opera House to perform his own composition under their auspices. The work entitled, The Diary of a Young Poet, will be given its world premiere on October 8th at 7:30pm in the Clore Studio. Mr. Ebel is a member of ROH's Jette Parker Young Artist Programme which commissioned the song cycle. The work is based on selected texts from Rainer Maria Rilke's "Worpswede Diary" which dramatizes Rilke as a young man struggling with and finding faith. The piece runs approximately forty minutes and is written for narrator, tenor (Mr. Ebel) and piano. The original poems and the narration are in English and are taken from the prose selections of the Diary. Mr. Ebel performs The Diary of a Young Poet twice more within the context of a larger program entitled "The Truth About Love" which will also include works by Robert Schumann and Benjamin Britten. Within this program Mr. Ebel's new cycle will be creatively integrated with those of Schumann and Britten. This unique musical and theatrical event takes place at ROH's Linbury Studio Theatre on October 13 and 15 at 7:30pm.
For more information please contact the Royal Opera House website www.roh.org.co.uk or the ROH press department at: ann.richards@roh.org.uk

Monday, August 2, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie interview composer and singer Steven Ebel. He was the first singer/composer in the 118 year history of the Royal Opera House in London to perform his own work "Diary of a Young Poet" under their auspices. He is currently a guest artist at the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Music Festival until August 19, 2010. Although currently living in New York, he's originally from Jefferson, Wisconsin and was a winner of WPR's Neale-Silva Young Artists Competition in 2001. Listen Using Windows Media (50:24).