South Bend Native, Tenor Paul Appleby, to Perform at DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Notre Dame, IN -- Tenor Paul Appleby, a frequent Metropolitan Opera performer and rising star, makes his DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Presenting Series debut in the Leighton Concert Hall on Saturday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. Appleby's recital program includes Schumann, Wolf, Mozart, Berlioz and Villa-Lobos. His North American tour with pianist Ken Noda also includes recitals for Boston's Celebrity Series and at New York's Carnegie Hall. Regular tickets are $28, $15 for students ages 5 and up and are currently available online at performingarts.nd.edu/collections.

Profoundly committed to the art of song, the young tenor has already earned an impressive reputation for his expressive acting, interpretative depth and versatility and has won critical acclaim for performances of Stravinsky's Tom Rakewell (The Rake's Progress), Handel's Jonathan (Saul), Brian in Nico Muhly's Two Boys and Mozart's Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) among others. A 2005 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, The Juillard School and The Lindemann Program, Appleby has worked regularly alongside James Levine at The Metropolitan Opera, most recently as David (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and in the current season for his debut as Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail).

The Renaldo Ferguson Family Endowment for the Performing Arts and the Gayle A. and Steven C. Francis Endowment for Excellence generously support Appleby's performance.

Regular tickets are $28 and $15 for students ages 5 and up. Children, regardless of age, are required to have a ticket to enter the venue. For additional information on Paul Appleby's performance on Saturday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m., visit: performingarts.nd.edu/collections.

Since opening in September 2004, the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center has become an integral part of the University's vision and commitment to becoming a preeminent research university. It is the University's leading presenter of world-class artistic programming, one with an institutional focus on contemporary works. As an academic space, the center enhances the scholarship, teaching and practice of the performing and cinematic arts. As a community space, the center welcomes more than 100,000 patrons annually, including thousands of K-12 students in education and related artistic programs. Presenting Series and Browning Cinema programs are curated to increase the center's capacity to educate, enlighten and engage.

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