EMMETT O’HANLON, who sings the title role in Don Giovanni this month at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, says his “love affair with the role started when I went to a Cincinnati Opera production of Don Giovanni. I remember it as being one of the coolest productions of an opera I’ve ever seen. I was quite young—I couldn’t have been more than twelve or thirteen—but it was just the most amazing music, so scary and exciting. And he gets dragged to hell at the end! It was like a great horror movie, essentially.”

O’Hanlon, a Manhasset, New York native, received his undergraduate degree from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and his master’s degree from Juilliard before moving on to Chicago, where he spent two years as a member of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Center. O’Hanlon’s handsome lyric baritone switches easily from opera to musical theater and beyond: this current season has already brought role debuts as Malatesta (at Berkshire Opera), Gaston in Beauty and the Beast (at the Paramount Theater in Aurora, Illinois) and Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where his other assignments as a guest artist include Kaiser Overall in Der Kaiser von Atlantis.

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