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date = "2015-04-07T17:38:00-04:00"
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The Grand Prize Winner of the OSM Standard Life Competition (2011) and First Prize and People’s Choice Award recipient of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio Competition (2012), Canadian Bass-Baritone Gordon Bintner appears internationally in a wide-range of operatic and concert repertoire.  
  
This season Mr. Bintner returns to both his home companies, first to the Canadian Opera Company for the title-role in _Eugene Onegin_, then to the Oper Frankfurt for new productions of Smetana's _Dalibor_ (Vladislav) and of Schreker's _Der Ferne Klang_ (Count), along with revivals of _Ariadne auf Naxos_ (Harlekin), _Rinaldo_ (Argante), _Le Nozze di Figaro_ (Count) and _Die Zauberflöte_ (Papageno). In concert, Mr. Bintner will sing the Count in _Le Nozze di Figaro_ with the national Arts Centre and its Music Director, Alexander Shelley. Future projects include debuts at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.  
  
Last season, Mr. Bintner returned to the Canadian Opera Company as Belcore in _L’Elisir d’Amore_ as well as to the Oper Frankfurt in three new productions: first as the Count in Brigitte Fassbaender’s vision of Strauss' _Capriccio_; as Gorianchikov in David Hermann's production of Janacek's _From the House of the Dead_ and finally as Bogdanovich in Claus Guth's new _Merry Widow_. Mr. Bintner finished the season by returning to Canada for Papageno in _Die Zauberflöte_ with Opéra de Québec and in a joint recital with his wife Simone Osborne in Ottawa. Mr. Bintner is also featured as Junior in the new Decca recording of Bernstein's _A Quiet Place_ with the Montreal Symphony and Kent Nagano, which was released over the summer.  
  
Highlights of the 2016/17 season included the Count in _Le Nozze di Figaro_ with Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Don Giovanni in _Don Giovanni_ with Opéra de Montréal and Festival de Beaune, Christus in Bach's _Matthäus Passion_ and Junior in Bernstein's _A Quiet Place_ with Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Chorèbe in _Les Troyens_ with Oper Frankfurt and Astolfo in _Lucrezia Borgia_ with Salzburger Festspiele.  
  
In 2015/16, Bintner made debuts at Osterfestspiele Salzburg as Araldo in _Otello_ with Christian Thielemann, Michigan Opera Theatre as Papageno in _The Magic Flute_, Manitoba Opera as Figaro in _Le Nozze di Figaro_ and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra as Guglielmo in _Così fan tutte_. He also made appearances with the COC Ensemble Studio, including Il Conte in _Le Nozze di Figaro_.  
  
He has previously worked with Kent Nagano as Junior in Bernstein’s _A Quiet Place_ with Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and made his role debuts as Lescaut in _Manon_ at Opéra de Montréal, Nardo in _La Finta Giardiniera_ at San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, Bill in _A Quiet Place_ with Ensemble Modern and Herr Basilio in _Der Barbier von Sevilla_ with Salzburger Festpiele’s Young Singers Project. Concert appearances include Handel’s _Messiah_ with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Cantatas BWV 147, 75 and 164 with Montreal Symphony Orchestra.  
  
A graduate of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio, Mr. Bintner recently joined the company of Oper Frankfurt.