Dean Power

Irish tenor Dean Power was born in Clarecastle and studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in Dublin.

Between 2012 and 2021 he was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where his roles included the Steersman (Der fliegende Holländer), Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser), Jaquino (Fidelio), Edmondo (Manon Lescaut), Froh (Das Rheingold), Scaramuccio (Ariadne auf Naxos), Count Albert (Die tote Stadt), Gherardo (Gianni Schicchi), Le Remendado (Carmen), Malcolm (Macbeth) and Lawrence Oates in the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka’s South Pole.

In the course of the 2021/22 season Dean Power has made his debut with the Opéra de Lille as Snout (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and appeared in the children’s opera Max und die Superheld:innen at the Bavarian State Opera as well as giving guest performances as Jaquino and as Gary in the world premiere of Donnacha Dennehy’s opera The First Child at the Irish National Opera. In the concert hall he has sung in performances of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon and in Jakub Jan Ryba’s Stabat Mater with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. In 2017 Dean Power received the Festival Prize that is awarded annually by the Society for the Promotion of the Munich Opera Festival.

Other engagements have included Count Elemer (Arabella) for the Zurich Opera, Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at the National Opera House in Wexford, Acis (Acis and Galatea) with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Maintop (Billy Budd) at the Glyndebourne Festival, Rustighello (Lucrezia Borgia) at the St Gallen Theatre, Belmonte, Ferrando (Così fan tutte) and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) for the Lyric Opera in Dublin and the Second Squire (Parsifal) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

Among his many concert appearances, suffice it to mention Bach’s St John Passion in Copenhagen, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Bavarian Philharmonic, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Augsburg Philharmonic, Handel’s Messiah with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Handel’s Jephtha with the Jewish Chamber Orchestra in Munich, Schubert’s Mass in A flat major with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang in St Maximilian’s Church in Munich, Mozart’s Requiem and Schubert’s Mass in E flat major in Planegg, Schubert’s Mass in C major at the Schubertiade in Hohenems and Verdi’s Requiem at the Augsburg Staatstheater.