Kirk Redmann
Kirk Redmann is an American operatic tenor, and the son of Audrey Schuh and Kerry P. Redmann.
Born in New Orleans, he graduated from Jesuit High School in 1979 and then from Tulane University, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. While there, he participated in productions of The Saint of Bleecker Street, La rondine, and the role of Camille in The Merry Widow for Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre.
On December 24, 1983, three days before his twenty-second birthday, Redmann became the youngest tenor to debut with the Metropolitan Opera, as the Sailor in the Christmas Eve broadcast of Tristan und Isolde, conducted by James Levine. Brought to the Met by Fulton, he joined the Metropolitan Opera's Young Artist Development Program, his career at the there consisted of secondary roles in Manon Lescaut, Khovanshchina, La traviata, Roméo et Juliette, Samson et Dalila, Lucia di Lammermoor, Rigoletto and Pong in Turandot.
Elsewhere, Redmann appeared at Opéra de Nice, Hong Kong, West Virginia Symphony, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Des Moines Metro Opera, Dicapo Opera Theatre, Il Piccolo Teatro, Long Beach Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Mississippi Opera, New Jersey State Opera, Opera Classics of New Jersey, New Orleans Opera Association, Opera Omaha, Palm Beach Opera, San Diego Opera, Shreveport Opera, Treasure Coast Opera Society, and the Goldovsky Opera Institute.
