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Back to Biographies Scott Flaherty Since making his operatic debut with the New York City National Company as Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly in both the United States and Canada, Scott Flaherty has established himself as one of the exciting young tenors performing the romantic Italian repertoire. Highlights of recent seasons include important international debuts, including Verdi's Il trovatore for Opera Ireland/Dublin Grand Opera and Teatro Lirico de Madrid, Carmen in the Bolshoi Opera's (Minsk, Belarus) first original production of Bizet's work, and that same opera in Hamburg, Germany, and British Columbia. Mr. Flaherty earned critical acclaim for his portrayal of Manrico in Il trovatore with the Minnesota Opera, Nevada Opera, Syracuse Opera, Chattanooga Opera, Augusta Opera, and the West Virginia Symphony. In addition, he has sung Pinkerton under the baton of John Mauceri for Opera Pacific, Cavalleria rusticana with Stephen Lord and the Mississippi Opera, Romeo and Juliet and Aida for Orlando Opera, I pagliacci with Mobile Opera and Connecticut Opera Theater, Tosca at Sanibel Music Festival, and Verdi's Nabucco with ARS Musica. On the concert stage, Mr. Flaherty has sung Verdi's Requiem at Avery Fisher Hall in New York and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; he has also performed widely throughout northern Italy. His recorded operatic vocals can be heard in popular television commercials for both Kodak and Schweppes. A native of Andover, Massachusetts, Scott Flaherty is performing for the first time with the Boston Pops Orchestra. He is a Richard Tucker Foundation Grant nominee, a winner of the Orlando Opera/Heinz Rehfuss Vocal Competition, a recipient of the Premio di G. Frescobaldi, and a fellowship recipient from the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera. He received his musical education at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas and continued his vocal studies with renowned tenor Franco Corelli. |