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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Stephen Christopher Varcoe</b> (* <a href="19._Mai" title="19. Mai">19. Mai</a> <a href="1949" title="1949">1949</a> in <a href="Lostwithiel" title="Lostwithiel">Lostwithiel</a>, <a href="Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a>) ist ein <a href="England" title="England">englischer</a> <a href="Oper" title="Oper">Opernsänger</a> (<a href="Bassbariton" title="Bassbariton">Bassbariton</a>).
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<p>Varcoe besuchte die <i>Canterbury Cathedral Choir School</i>, die <i>Canterbury’s King’s School</i> und studierte am <i>King´s College</i>, wo er im <a href="Choir_of_King's_College%2C_Cambridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Choir of King's College, Cambridge">King’s College Choir</a> unter <a href="David_Willcocks" title="David Willcocks">David Willcocks</a> sang. 1977 erhielt er ein Stipendium der Gulbenkian Foundation.
</p><p>Varcoe trat u. a. mit dem <a href="Royal_Philharmonic_Orchestra" title="Royal Philharmonic Orchestra">Royal Philharmonic Orchestra</a>, dem <a href="BBC_Scottish_Symphony_Orchestra" title="BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra">BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra</a>, dem <a href="Scottish_Chamber_Orchestra" title="Scottish Chamber Orchestra">Scottish Chamber Orchestra</a>, dem <a href="Orchestre_Philharmonique_de_Radio_France" title="Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France">Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France</a>, dem New Zealand Chamber Orchestra und der Hanover Band auf und arbeitete mit Dirigenten wie <a href="Frans_Br%C3%BCggen" title="Frans Brüggen">Frans Brüggen</a>, <a href="John_Eliot_Gardiner" title="John Eliot Gardiner">John Eliot Gardiner</a>, <a href="Richard_Hickox" title="Richard Hickox">Richard Hickox</a>, <a href="Christian_Lindberg" title="Christian Lindberg">Christian Lindberg</a>, <a href="Charles_Mackerras" title="Charles Mackerras">Charles Mackerras</a>, <a href="Jean-Claude_Malgoire" title="Jean-Claude Malgoire">Jean-Claude Malgoire</a>, <a href="Marc_Minkowski" title="Marc Minkowski">Marc Minkowski</a>, <a href="Arnold_%C3%96stman" title="Arnold Östman">Arnold Östman</a>, <a href="Trevor_Pinnock" title="Trevor Pinnock">Trevor Pinnock</a>, <a href="Joshua_Rifkin" title="Joshua Rifkin">Joshua Rifkin</a>, <a href="Gennadi_Nikolajewitsch_Roschdestwenski" title="Gennadi Nikolajewitsch Roschdestwenski">Gennadi Roshdestvensky</a> und <a href="Yan_Pascal_Tortelier" title="Yan Pascal Tortelier">Yan Pascal Tortelier</a>.
</p><p>Als Opernsänger trat Varcoe u. a. in <a href="Joseph_Haydn" title="Joseph Haydn">Joseph Haydns</a> <i>L’infedelta delusa</i> in Antwerpen, <a href="Claude_Debussy" title="Claude Debussy">Claude Debussys</a> <i>Fall of The House of Usher</i> in Lissabon und London, <a href="John_Tavener" title="John Tavener">John Taveners</a> <i>Mary of Egypt</i> beim <i><a href="Aldeburgh_Festival" title="Aldeburgh Festival">Aldeburgh Festival</a></i>, <a href="Jacopo_Peri" title="Jacopo Peri">Jacopo Peris</a> <i><a href="Euridice_(Peri)" title="Euridice (Peri)">Euridice</a></i> im <a href="Schlosstheater_Drottningholm" title="Schlosstheater Drottningholm">Schlosstheater Drottningholm</a>, <a href="Gustav_Holst" title="Gustav Holst">Gustav Holsts</a> <i>Savitri</i>, <a href="Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Benjamin Brittens</a> <i><a href="Ein_Sommernachtstraum_(Britten)" title="Ein Sommernachtstraum (Britten)">A Midsummer Night’s Dream</a></i> und <a href="Nikolai_Andrejewitsch_Rimski-Korsakow" title="Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow">Rimski-Korsakows</a> <i><a href="Mozart_und_Salieri" title="Mozart und Salieri">Mozart und Salieri</a></i> auf.
</p><p>Als Liedsänger gab er Liederabende mit Werken von <a href="Gerald_Finzi" title="Gerald Finzi">Gerald Finzi</a> und <a href="Arthur_Somervell" title="Arthur Somervell">Arthur Somervell</a> mit dem Pianisten <a href="Iain_Burnside" title="Iain Burnside">Iain Burnside</a>, von <a href="Franz_Schubert" title="Franz Schubert">Franz Schubert</a> (<a href="Winterreise" title="Winterreise">Winterreise</a>) mit <a href="Eugene_Asti" title="Eugene Asti">Eugene Asti</a> und mit <a href="Graham_Johnson" title="Graham Johnson">Graham Johnson</a>, von <a href="Johannes_Brahms" title="Johannes Brahms">Johannes Brahms</a>, <a href="Robert_Schumann" title="Robert Schumann">Robert Schumann</a> und <a href="Hugo_Wolf" title="Hugo Wolf">Hugo Wolf</a> mit Johnson und von <a href="Percy_Grainger" title="Percy Grainger">Percy Grainger</a> mit <a href="Penelope_Thwaites" title="Penelope Thwaites">Penelope Thwaites</a>.
</p><p>Varcoe nahm etwa 130 CDs auf. Er sang Werke von <a href="Henry_Purcell" title="Henry Purcell">Purcell</a>, <a href="Georg_Friedrich_H%C3%A4ndel" title="Georg Friedrich Händel">Händel</a> und <a href="Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Bach</a> unter <a href="John_Eliot_Gardiner" title="John Eliot Gardiner">John Eliot Gardiner</a>, <a href="Richard_Hickox" title="Richard Hickox">Richard Hickox</a> und <a href="Sigiswald_Kuijken" title="Sigiswald Kuijken">Sigiswald Kuijken</a>, von <a href="Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" title="Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart">Mozart</a> unter <a href="Neville_Marriner" title="Neville Marriner">Neville Marriner</a>, von <a href="Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9" title="Gabriel Fauré">Fauré</a> unter <a href="John_Rutter" title="John Rutter">John Rutter</a>, von <a href="Gustav_Holst" title="Gustav Holst">Holst</a> unter Richard Hickox, von <a href="Richard_Strauss" title="Richard Strauss">Richard Strauss</a> unter <a href="Roger_Norrington" title="Roger Norrington">Roger Norrington</a>, von <a href="Arnold_Sch%C3%B6nberg" title="Arnold Schönberg">Arnold Schönberg</a> unter <a href="Robert_Craft" title="Robert Craft">Robert Craft</a> und von <a href="Igor_Stravinsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a> unter Robert Craft.
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