Henrique Feist
Encyclopedia
Henrique Feist is a Portuguese
singer, actor
and director.
television soap
Pedro e Paulina. That same year he was awarded the Best Newcomer Award by the Portuguese National Press. For the next five years he toured Portugal with his brother and began his singing training with Maria João
Serrão from the Portuguese National Opera.
where he completed the three year Musical Theatre
course at the Guildford School of Acting and Dance. Work at drama college includes: Ciccio in The Most Happy Fella
; Sancho in Man of La Mancha
; Mr. Snow in Carousel as well as master classes with Martin Koch, Claire Moore and Morag McLaren
.
He obtained his stage fighting certificate, the Trinity College of Music
singing diploma and 1st prize in the Surrey Annual Music Festival.
He returned to his native Portugal from the UK in 1993.
Feist translated and adapted for Portuguese television the comedy series Rising Damp
and Three's Company
.
For Channel 3 television, he was vocal and content director, as well as co-starring in, the television galas:
As well as artistic and creative director and starring in the following live-on-tape gala performances:
He created, directed and starred in the gala Marco Paulo - A 40 year tribute for Channel 1 television.
He was also lead singer in the show Music from the Heart, for Channel 1 television, also released on CD.
Artistic director for the Channel 3 musical contest "Superstar Family".
Staged and starred in "Um País Chamado Simone" - a 50 year in showbusiness tribute to Simone de Oliveira for Channel 1 television.
Artistic Director for the Portuguese Song Festival 2008 and 2009, Channel One Television.
Musical Consultant for the TV Game Show "Singing Bee", Channel 3 Television.
Artistic Director for "Somos Portugal" for Channel 4 TV.
He also dubbed Elton John
in the Portuguese versions of El Dorado and "Gnomeo and Juliet".
He has recorded many songs for Disney on Ice
.
Feist created, directed and participated in the following shows:
He was vocal director and starred in
He directed and translated the Off-Broadway hit Naked Boys Singing at the Estoril Casino, for which he won the 2009 Rainbow Award, a distinction given to those who fight for a more open democracy.
In the summer of 2006 Feist presented his show How Broadway Got To Portugal at the Figueira Casino and created the show Xmas Forever for Rádio Renascença
's gala performance at the Trindade Theatre. At Christmas of the same year, he was special guest star for Channel 3 Television Disney Gala Performance. In 2009, Henrique was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category of Best Actor for his role as Emcee in Cabaret. In 2010, he won the SPA Best Actor Award for his role as Mr.Zero in The Adding Machine, for which he was also nominated once again for a Golden Globe in the category of Best Actor. In 2010, the INATEL foundation paid hommage to him and to his contribution to the theatre in Portugal.
Henrique can be currently seen at the Estoril Casino playing the lead in "Fado, a People´s History".
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Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
singer, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and director.
Early career
Feist was born in Lisbon, Portugal and began his career as a pop singer in 1982 with his brother, performing on television and various radio shows. They recorded nine records, all of which hit the charts. In 1985 he created the role of Miguel in the PortuguesePortugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
television soap
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Pedro e Paulina. That same year he was awarded the Best Newcomer Award by the Portuguese National Press. For the next five years he toured Portugal with his brother and began his singing training with Maria João
Maria João
Maria João is a Portuguese jazz singer.She is known for her vocal flexibility and improvisational skills. While normally considered a jazz singer, her music incorporates a mix of folk/ethnic music, modern jazz, and the avant-garde...
Serrão from the Portuguese National Opera.
Theatre training
Deciding to continue his studies in theatre he moved to EnglandUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
where he completed the three year Musical Theatre
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
course at the Guildford School of Acting and Dance. Work at drama college includes: Ciccio in The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 musical with a book, music, and lyrics by Frank Loesser. The story, about a romance between an older man and younger woman, is based on the play They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard...
; Sancho in Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha is a musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote...
; Mr. Snow in Carousel as well as master classes with Martin Koch, Claire Moore and Morag McLaren
Morag McLaren
Morag McLaren is an Edinburgh, Scotland-born cabaret artist, singer and actress. She has performed in musicals from concerts and one woman shows to opera, in which she originally trained at The Royal Northern College of Music, performing in Buxton Festival and with Opera North while still a student...
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He obtained his stage fighting certificate, the Trinity College of Music
Trinity College of Music
Trinity College of Music is one of the London music conservatories, based in Greenwich. It is part of Trinity Laban.The conservatoire is inheritor of elegant riverside buildings of the former Greenwich Hospital, designed in part by Sir Christopher Wren...
singing diploma and 1st prize in the Surrey Annual Music Festival.
He returned to his native Portugal from the UK in 1993.
Television
- MC in Cabaret
- Algernon in The Importance of Being EarnestThe Importance of Being EarnestThe Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...
- David e Silva in The Hour of Freedom
- Singing in the Channel One TV show Saturday Night Live, including the roles:
- Javert (Les MisérablesLes Misérables (musical)Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....
) - Chris (Miss SaigonMiss SaigonMiss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover...
) - Joe (Sunset BoulevardSunset Boulevard (musical)Sunset Boulevard is a musical with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Based on the 1950 film of the same title, the plot revolves around Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, living in the past in her decaying mansion on the...
) - Jesus (Jesus Christ SuperstarJesus Christ SuperstarJesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...
) - The Phantom (The Phantom of the OperaThe Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,...
).
- Javert (Les Misérables
Feist translated and adapted for Portuguese television the comedy series Rising Damp
Rising Damp
Rising Damp is a television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, first broadcast from 1974 to 1978. It was adapted for television by Eric Chappell from his well-received 1971 stage play, The Banana Box The series was the highest-ranking ITV sitcom on the 100 Best Sitcoms poll run in...
and Three's Company
Three's Company
Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984, on ABC. It is based on the British sitcom, Man About the House....
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For Channel 3 television, he was vocal and content director, as well as co-starring in, the television galas:
- The Sixties
- Summertime
- The Movies
As well as artistic and creative director and starring in the following live-on-tape gala performances:
- The Great Broad Way
- Latin Blood
- Channel 3 13th Anniversary Gala Performance
He created, directed and starred in the gala Marco Paulo - A 40 year tribute for Channel 1 television.
He was also lead singer in the show Music from the Heart, for Channel 1 television, also released on CD.
Artistic director for the Channel 3 musical contest "Superstar Family".
Staged and starred in "Um País Chamado Simone" - a 50 year in showbusiness tribute to Simone de Oliveira for Channel 1 television.
Artistic Director for the Portuguese Song Festival 2008 and 2009, Channel One Television.
Musical Consultant for the TV Game Show "Singing Bee", Channel 3 Television.
Artistic Director for "Somos Portugal" for Channel 4 TV.
Voice acting
- Dragon Ball
- Biker Mice from MarsBiker Mice from MarsBiker Mice from Mars is a science fiction animated series created by Rick Ungar that began airing in 1993 in the United States and lasted for three seasons before it was cancelled...
- Dexter's Lab
- Power RangersPower RangersPower Rangers is a long-running American entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live action children's television series featuring teams of costumed heroes...
- Veggie Tales
- All Dogs go to HeavenAll Dogs Go to HeavenAll Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 Irish-English animated film directed and produced by Don Bluth and released by United Artists. The film tells the story of two dogs, Charlie B. Barkin and his loyal best friend Itchy Itchiford...
(also Music directorMusic directorA music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...
) - Dimitri in Anastasia
- Radcliff in PocahontasPocahontas (1995 film)Pocahontas is the 33rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and was originally released to selected theaters on June 16, 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures...
- Kovu in The Lion King II
- Prince in Snow WhiteSnow White"Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...
- Ramses in The Prince of EgyptThe Prince of EgyptThe Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical drama film and the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks Animation. The film is an adaptation of the Book of Exodus and follows the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to his ultimate destiny to lead the...
- Joseph in Joseph, King of Dreams
- Beast in Beauty and the BeastBeauty and the Beast (1991 film)Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third film of the Disney Renaissance period...
- Joseph in The Nativity Story
- Edward in Enchanted
- Flynn in Tangled
He also dubbed Elton John
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
in the Portuguese versions of El Dorado and "Gnomeo and Juliet".
He has recorded many songs for Disney on Ice
Disney on Ice
Disney On Ice is a touring ice show produced by Feld Entertainment under agreement with The Walt Disney Company. Aimed primarily at children, the shows feature figure skaters dressed as Disney cartoon characters in performances that each derive their music and plot from elements collected from...
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Stage
- Salo in Maldita Cocaína
- Daniel in My Night With Reg
- Tobias in Sweeney Todd 1997 and again in 2007
- Sam Jenkins / Senator Carver Jones in Of Thee I Sing
- Alain Oulman in Amália, in Lisbon and on tour (also associate director and musical supervisor)
- Emcee in Cabaret
- Mr.Zero in The Adding Machine
Feist created, directed and participated in the following shows:
- Esta Vida é uma Cantiga (Life is a Song), a celebration of Portuguese revue and vaudevilleVaudevilleVaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
- Christmas at the Coliseum
- La Noche que me Quieras, celebrating Spanish, Italian and French music.
- 501 Years of Dance at the Lisbon Coliseum
He was vocal director and starred in
- The Great Composers of the American Musical Theatre, celebrating the music of Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Kern and Rodgers
- A Return to Broadway, both in Lisbon and the Azores island.
He directed and translated the Off-Broadway hit Naked Boys Singing at the Estoril Casino, for which he won the 2009 Rainbow Award, a distinction given to those who fight for a more open democracy.
In the summer of 2006 Feist presented his show How Broadway Got To Portugal at the Figueira Casino and created the show Xmas Forever for Rádio Renascença
Rádio Renascença
Rádio Renascença, also known as 'RR' or just 'Renascença', is a private, commercial, Portuguese radio station owned by various organizations within the Portuguese Catholic Church, such as Patriarcado de Lisboa. It was founded in 1934 and started broadcasting in 1936...
's gala performance at the Trindade Theatre. At Christmas of the same year, he was special guest star for Channel 3 Television Disney Gala Performance. In 2009, Henrique was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category of Best Actor for his role as Emcee in Cabaret. In 2010, he won the SPA Best Actor Award for his role as Mr.Zero in The Adding Machine, for which he was also nominated once again for a Golden Globe in the category of Best Actor. In 2010, the INATEL foundation paid hommage to him and to his contribution to the theatre in Portugal.
Henrique can be currently seen at the Estoril Casino playing the lead in "Fado, a People´s History".
Teaching
Feist was vocal coach for the Lisbon Youth Theatre, working on the musicals: Camões, Prince of Poets and Man of La Mancha, for which he also wrote the lyrics. Since 2003, he has worked in close conjunction with the Portuguese Laryngology Association, coordinating voice workshops. He teaches musical theatre every summer at the Belem Cultural CentreHong Kong Cultural Centre
The Hong Kong Cultural Centre is a multipurpose performance facility in the Tsim Sha Tsui area of Hong Kong. Located at Salisbury Road, it was founded by the former Urban Council and, after 2000, is administered by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong Government...
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Recording credits
- Portuguese version of PokémonPokémonis a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video...
(including translation and directing) - Disney International Hits
- Amalia - Original Cast Recording
- Great Fados, Great Voices II
Additional
- In 1996 he was invited to sing at the Aga KhanAga KhanAga Khan is the hereditary title of the Imam of the largest branch of the Ismā'īlī followers of the Shī‘a faith. They affirm the Imamat of the descendants of Ismail ibn Jafar, eldest son of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, while the larger Twelver branch of Shi`ism follows Ismail's younger brother Musa...
's birthday celebration. - He reached the finals of the Channel 1 television show Strictly Come DancingStrictly Come DancingStrictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...
where he came 3rd. - In September 2009, at the Portuguese anime oriented event, "Anipop", he was the main judge for the contest "Anipop's got talent".