TitUS, Alan (Wilkowski)
TitUS, Alan (Wilkowski)
TitUS, Alan (Wilkowski), American baritone; b. N.Y., Oct. 28, 1945. He was a student of Aksel Schiotz at the Univ. of Colo, and of Hans Heinz at the Juilliard School of Music in N.Y., where he sang as Rossini’s Figaro. In 1969 he made his formal operatic debut as Marcello in Washington, D.C. He first gained wide recognition when he created the role of the Celebrant in Bernstein’s Mass at the inauguration of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, on Sept. 8, 1971. After appearing with the N.Y.C. Opera and the San Francisco Spring Opera in 1972, he made his European debut as Pelléas in Amsterdam in 1973. On March 20, 1976, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in N.Y. as Harlekin in Ariadne aufNaxos. He made his first appearance at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1979 as Guglielmo. In 1984 he sang Don Giovanni at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. In 1985 he appeared as Storch in Intermezzo in Santa Fe. In 1987 he sang Oliviero in Capriccio at the Maggio Musicale in Florence. He appeared as Creonte in Haydn’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the Salzburg Festival in 1990, and that same year sang Storch in the Italian premiere of Intermezzo in Bologna. In 1992 he sang Donizetti’s Duca d’Alba at the Spoleto Festival. In 1995 he appeared in the title role of Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler at London’s Covent Garden. He portrayed Pizzaro in Rome in 1996.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire