Graham Pushee "Risveglia lo sdegno, rammenta l'offesa" PORO re dell’Indie (Händel) 1982

The Australian counter-tenor, Graham Pushee, studied voice with David Parker and received the Churchill Fellowship Special Award in 1977 which enabled him to study in London with Paul Esswood and in Basel at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis 1978-83. His career saw him to performing at the Paris Opera, Berlin Staatsoper and Komische Oper, Le Monnaie Brussels, La Scala Milan, Grand Théâtre de Geneve, Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Teatro Regio Turin, Frankfurt Opera, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Cologne Opera, Opera de Lyon, Opera Montpellier, Vienna Festwochen, Salzburg Festival, Innsbruck Early Music Festival, Karlsruhe, Göttingen, Maryland and Halle Händel Festivals, Holland Festival, Théâtre de Champs Elysées, Opera North and Opera Queensland. For Opera Australia he performed Ruggiero in ALCINA, Arsamenes in XERXES, title roles in GIULIO CESARE and RINALDO, Oberon in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Goffredo in RINALDO and Apollo in DEATH IN VENICE. We hear him, early in his career, in the title role of Händel's PORO. This scene which opens Act III, perfomed in German translation, also features Anita Hermann as Erissena in the opening recitative. Charles Farncombe conducts this performance from Karlsruhe on June 24th 1982.