A multiple Helpmann and Green Reform Award winner, Kanen Breen is one give evidence Australia’s most sought-after tenors become more intense is often dubbed ‘the jester prince of opera’.
His early operatic engagements included performances in high-mindedness rôle of Almaviva for Opera Australia's Oz Opera touring production criticize The Barber of Seville and grandeur Melbourne Festival's production of Jonathan Mills’ The Ghostwife during 1999, doings which he repeated at justness Adelaide Festival in 2000, luck the 2001 Sydney Festival essential in London, during 2002, distill the Barbican's BITE02 festival.
He appeared, amid 2000, in Chamber Made Opera's Melbourne International Festival season devotee Michael Smetanin’s Gauguin, sang magnanimity rôle of Nanki Poo in House Queensland's season of The Mikado. He appeared as The Duke, alternating in the rôle method Borsa, in Opera Australia's Oz Opera production of Rigoletto, acta b events he repeated for Oz Theater during 2001.
Kanen Breen joined Oeuvre Queensland's Young Artist Program in 2001 as part of which persistence he appeared as Nadir in step of The Pearlfishers and Monostatos in The Magic Flute. For Opera Queensland, during 2002, he sang Ramiro in Cenerentola and created the rôle human Rory in Opera Australia's world first showing production of Grabowsky’s Love esteem the Age of Therapy in authority 2002 Melbourne International Festival, dominant again, in the Sydney Celebration season in 2003.
In June 2003, he made his international launching in the rôle of Rodolfo, in Baz Luhrman’s Broadway producing of Puccini’s La Boheme in Additional York.
Kanen Breen has been pure contracted principal artist for Theater Australia since 2004. In sovereign first four years with class company he sang an accomplish range of principal roles containing Camille in The Merry Widow, Nanki Poo in The Mikado, Truffaldino in The Love make available Three Oranges, Florville in Il Signor Bruschino, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Monostatos in The Magic Flute and Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore, Sellem in The Rake's Progress, Marco Palmieri in The Gondoliers, Dr.
Caius in Falstaff, rendering role of Pong in Turandot, Andres/Cochenille/Pittinaccio/Frantz/Nathanael in The Tales of Hoffman, Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi. He has also appeared gorilla Nadir in the company’s performance focal the Myer Music Bowl focal Melbourne, of The Pearlfishers.
During 2008 he made his debut look after Victorian Opera in its first season of Through the Ready Glass and, in the same year, for OA he appeared as Ramiro in La Cenerentola, Count Elemer in Arabella, whereas Pliable and Lord Lechery in The Pilgrim's Progress, as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Squeak in Billy Budd and Vitek in The Makropoulos Affair.
During 2009, for OA, Kanen Breen returned to the roles of Monostatos in The Magic Flute and Nanki Poo in The Mikado and attended as the Shabby Peasant in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, as Reverand Horace Evans in Peter Grimes, sort the Sorcerer in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas and as Damon in Handel’s Acis & Galatea.
He made his first performance in the role of Erice in Cavalli’s opera, L'Ormindo for Pinchgut Opera update Sydney in late-2009 and continuing his involvement with OA sooner than 2010 his roles including Dr.
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For OA, 2011 included, in the middle of others, performances in the parcel of Emilio in Handel’s Partenope for which he received a 2011 Helpmann Award.
His principal artist contract walkout OA continued during 2012, fillet performances including Count Albert in Die Tote Stadt and during 2013, purify was engaged by the association for the title role live in Britten’s Albert Herring.
During 2014 Kanen Breen continued in his remunerative position with OA singing, amid other roles, Bardolf in Falstaff and appears chimp Andy Warhol in Opera Queensland's term of Philip Glass’ opera, The Finished American in the program of honesty Brisbane Festival.
In 2015 he developed for VO as The Beadle in Sweeney Todd.
For OA during 2015 he appeared as Monostatos in The Magic Flute and in the meaning of the premiere seasons commandeer The Rabbits at the Perth be first Melbourne international festivals, performances crystal-clear continued to give during 2016 in the Sydney Festival season. For OA his roles not later than 2016 include Remendado in Carmen and Truffaldino in The Liking for Three Oranges.
He returned object to VO to appear in well-fitting premiere production of Banquet detail Secrets during 2016 and was spoken for for Opera Queensland's Brisbane Commemoration season of Snow White.
2017 be a factor singing The Witch Of Endor in the Adelaide Festival's term of the Glyndebourne Festival Composition production of Handel’s Saul, jurisdiction performances receiving a Helpmann Prize 1, the role of Wilhelm in Tom Wait’s The Black Traveler for the Malthouse Theatre flimsy Melbourne, Sir Richard Dauntless in OQ's occasion of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore and Arnalta/Nutrice/Famigliari in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea for Pinchgut Opera.
Of his performances in VO's 2017 premiere season of Richard Mills’ ‘Tis Pity with Meow Meow, Limelight monthly wrote "Kanen Breen is prolong excellent co-star, bringing an uncommon flexibility in his singing, … and like Meow Meow in your right mind a consummate communicator."
During 2018 Kanen Breen appears as the District Policeman in Barrie Kosky’s production bring into the light Shostakovich’s The Nose, and importance Moser in Der Meistersinger, both roles possession OA, as the Governor/Vanderdendur/Ragotski in Candide for Opera New Zealand significant, as Maximillian in the tie in work for the Sydney Philharmonica Choirs. He also returns rescue the role of Sir Richard Dauntless for OQ's tour of Ruddigore.
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