Gall, Jeffrey (1950– )

US counter-tenor. He studied at Princeton and Yale and was a member of the Waverley Consort 1974–78. He made his debut at the Brooklyn Academy, in Cavalli's Erismena, and sang in Europe from 1980 at La Scala, Edinburgh, Venice, and Naples. His US engagements included Chicago and Santa Fe (1986) and the New York Metropolitan Opera House in 1988 as Tolomeo in Handel's Giulio Cesare/Julius Caesar; he returned there in 1994 in Britten's Death in Venice. He sang Ruggiero in Handel's Orlando at San Francisco in 1989, and Polinesso in Ariodante at Philadelphia. He featured in the title role of the Peter Sellars version of Giulio Cesare and has also sung in operas by Jommelli (at La Scala), Lully, Cesti, and Purcell.