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OPERA ENGAGEMENTS

Argento

Bass roles

POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO 

Chamber Opera of Boston, MA

Bizet

Le Majordome

LA JOLIE FILLE DE PERTH 

L’Opera Francais de New York, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center (Yves Abel, Cond.)

Bizet

Dancairo

CARMEN 

Central City Opera, CO (Stephen Crout, Cond.) 

Britten

Starveling

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

Piccolo Teatro dell’Opera, NY (Anton Coppola, Cond.) 

Britten

Noye

NOYE’S FLUDDE

St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra, Boston

Donizetti

Don Pasquale

DON PASQUALE

Tacoma Opera, WA (David Bartholomew, Dir., Benton Hess, Cond.)

Glass

Laughing Sun

THE WITCHES OF VENICE +

Philip Glass/Euphorbia Prod./LaScala Corps de Ballet, NY 

Glück

Arcas

IPHIGENIE EN AULIDE

L’Opera Francais de New York at Alice Tully Hall

Handel

Somnus/Cadmus

SEMELE 

Anchorage Opera, AK (Chas Rader-Shieber, Dir.)

Haydn

Creonte

L’ANIMA DEL FILOSOFO (“Orfeo”) (Excerpts)

Bard Music Festival, NY (Leon Botstein, Cond.) 

Haydn

Nanni

L’INFEDELTA DELUSA 

Bard Music Festival/American Symphony Orch. 

Hoiby  

Sebastian

THE TEMPEST  (Workshop)+

Des Moines Metro Opera (Robert Larsen, Cond.) 

Kalmanoff

Ichneumon Fly

THE INSECT COMEDY +

Center for Contemporary Opera, NY, (Lou Galterio, Dir.)

Menotti

Melchior

AMAHL & THE NIGHT VISITORS

Merrimack Lyric Opera, MA

Menotti

Lavendar Gas

HELP! HELP! THE GLOBOLINKS!

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Menotti

Bob

THE OLD MAID & THE THIEF

Chamber Opera of Boston, MA  (Patricia Weinman, Dir.)

Mozart

Papageno

DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE

Abilene Opera, TX, (Louis Burkot, Cond.);
Teatro Lirico d' Europa (Musica 2001 France & Spain tours);
Rimrock Opera (Billing, MT)

Mozart

Die Sprecher

DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE

Boston Baroque (Martin Pearlman, Cond.)

Puccini

Colline

LA BOHÈME

Abilene Opera, TX  (Louis Burkot, Cond., Ron Luchsinger, Dir.)

Puccini

Marco

GIANNI SCHICCHI 

Metropolitan Opera Guild, NY (Amy Kaiser, Cond.) 

Puccini

Sacristan

TOSCA

Prism Opera Showcase, NY (George Garrett Keast, Cond.)

Purcell

Aeneas *

DIDO AND AENEAS

Mark Morris Dance Group, BAM, NY; (Nicholas McGegan, Cond.) 

Rossini

Dandini

LA CENERENTOLA

Oswego Opera Theater, NY 

Shostakovich

Speculant

THE NOSE

The Santa Fe Opera (Edo de Waart, Cond.)

    
* Cover + Premiere
    
OPERETTA/THEATER ENGAGEMENTS    

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Soloist

AFTER THE LION ROARED: Great Songs from Great Movies

Harmony Hall Regional Center, MD; various New York area cabaret venues

. . . .

Soloist

OPERA BUFFA:  
Comedy on Stage

Lincoln Center “Meet the Artists”, NY 

. . . .

Soloist

SHALL WE DANCE:  
Great Duets from the Best of Broadway

Abilene Philharmonic, TX (Shinik Hahm, Cond.)

. . . .

Soloist

MUSICAL CONFECTIONS: 
Opening Night Gala 
Music of Berlin, Gershwin, Porter

Anchorage Opera

Barab

Aaron Blunder

THE TOY SHOP

Baltimore Opera Touring Theatre

Bernstein

Maximillian

CANDIDE

Oswego Opera Theatre, NY

Bernstein

Chip

ON THE TOWN

Westfield Symphony, NJ (Brad Keimach, Cond.)

Charlap/Styne

Captain Hook

PETER PAN

Abilene Opera (Denis Segond, Cond., Ron Luchsinger, Dir.) 2006

Friml

Hard Boiled Herman

ROSE-MARIE 

Central City Opera, CO (Dorothy Danner, Dir.; Francis Graffeo, Cond.)

Gesner

Snoopy

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN

Natchez Opera Festival, MS

Gilbert & Sullivan

Major General

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE

Knoxville Opera, TN (Carroll Freeman, Dir.);
Anchorage Opera, AK (Stephen Sulich, Cond., Brad Carroll, Dir.);
Colorado Symphony (Duaine Wolfe, Cond.);
Gulf Coast Symphony, FL (Andrew Kurtz, Cond., Jonathan Loy, Dir.)

Gilbert & Sullivan

Ko-Ko

THE MIKADO

Lake George Opera (John Stephens, Dir., William Boggs, Cond.);
Anchorage Opera (Brad Carroll, Dir.);
Opera Northeast/National Savoyards (Midwest Tour)

Gilbert & Sullivan

Dick Deadeye

H.M.S. PINAFORE

Anchorage Opera, AK (Daniel Kleinknecht, Cond., Bill Fabris, Dir.)

Gilbert & Sullivan

Sir Joseph

H.M.S. PINAFORE

Nashville Opera (2008) (Jerome Shannon, Cond., William Florescu, Dir.)

Gilbert & Sullivan

Soloist

THE BEST OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN

Erie Philharmonic, PA
Johnstown Symphony, PA
Indiana Symphony, PA
Opera Northeast (tour)

Gilbert & Sullivan

Soloist

THE MAGIC OF G & S

Abilene Philharmonic, TX (Shinik Hahm, Cond.)

Harper

El Greco

EL GRECO +

Intar Theatre, NY (Off-Broadway)

Herbert

Hendrik

THE RED MILL

Red Barn Playhouse, MI

Lehár

Njegus

THE MERRY WIDOW

Opera East Texas (Scott York, Cond.);
Boston Concert Opera (Tad Motyka, Dir.);
Abilene Opera, TX (Louis Burkot, Cond. Ron Luchsinger, Dir.);
Anchorage Opera, AK (Stephen Sulich, Cond.)

Offenbach

Mathieu

LE VIOLONEUX 

Orch. of St. Luke’s, NY (Miguel Harth-Badoya, Cond.)

Porter

Soloist

NIGHT AND DAY: Songs of Cole Porter

Harmony Hall Regional Center, MD

Romberg

Benny

THE DESERT SONG

Boston Concert Opera (David Stockton, Cond.)

Romberg

Lutz

THE STUDENT PRINCE

Natchez Opera Festival, MS (Stanley Garner, Dir.)

Schmidt/Jones

El Gallo

THE FANTASTICKS

Iraklion Festival, Crete, Greece

Strauss/Korngold

Wesseley

WALZER AUS WIEN 

Bard Music Festival/American Symphony Orchestra, NY

Strauss

Pali *

THE GYPSY BARON   

New York Philharmonic  (Kurt Masur, Cond.)

Strauss

Frank

DIE FLEDERMAUS

Ensemble Theatre of Cambridge, MA

Wright

Pony Soldier

GHOST DANCE 

Long Beach Civic Light Opera/NAMTP

    
* Cover + Premiere
    
ORATORIO/CONCERT SOLO ENGAGEMENTS  

Bach, J.S.

CANTATAS (70+), ST. JOHN PASSION, ST. MATTHEW PASSION, B-MINOR MASS, MAGNIFICAT, CHRISTMAS ORATORIO, MISSA BREVI

Orch. of St. Luke’s “Cantatas in Context” Series (Mary Greer, Cond.); St. Cecilia Chorus and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, NY (David Randolph, Cond.); Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, NY;  BachWorks, NY (Bradley Brookshire and Anthony Newman, Conds.);  Miami Bach Society; BaroqueWorks at Merkin Hall, NY; Bach Society of Worcester, MA; Columbia University, NY;  Bach Aria Festival and Institute, NY; Hudson Valley Chorus & Orchestra, NY;  Miami Bach Society, FL; Boston Premiere Ensemble;  Meetinghouse Chorale, CT; Swanhurst Chorus, RI; Sarah Lawrence College, NY; Canticum Novum, NY; Concord Chorus, MA; Long Island Baroque, American Classical Orchestra

Handel

MESSIAH, JUDAS MACCABEUS, DETTINGEN TE DEUM, ISRAEL IN EGYPT, DIXIT DOMINUS, SAMSON

Billings Symphony, MT  (Uri Barnea, Cond.); Miami Bach Society, FL; Bach Society of Worcester, MA; Mid-America Productions at Carnegie Hall, NY; Columbia University, NY; Amor Artis (Johannes Somary, Cond.) 

Haydn

L’ANIMA DEL FILOSOFO (“Orfeo”); LORD NELSON MASS, CREATION MASS, MASS IN TIME OF WAR, THERESA MASS, THE CREATION (Adam)

Bard Music Festival, NY (Leon Botstein, Cond.); St. Cecilia Chorus, NY (David Randolph, Cond); Mastersingers of Worcester, MA;  Island Chamber Symphony, NY;  Merrimack Valley Chorale, MA

Mozart

REQUIEM, SOLEMN VESPERS, C MINOR MASS, CORONATION MASS, REGINA COELI, various MISSA BREVI

Holy Cross College, MA (2004 and 2006), Masterworks Chorale, Boston (Allan Lannom, Cond.); St. Cecilia Chorus at Carnegie Hall, 2002 (David Randolph, Cond.); New York Chamber Symphony at Alice Tully Hall (Martin Turnovsky, Cond.); American Classical Orchestra, CT (Thomas Crawford, Cond.)

Beethoven

MASS in C

Tufts University, MA

Berlioz

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE

New Bedford Symphony, MA

MESSE SOLENNELLE

St. Cecilia Chorus, NY  (David Randolph, Cond.)

 

L’ENFANCE DU CHRIST (Polydorus)

St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra, Boston

Brahms VIER ERNSTE GESÄNGE

The University of Alabama Chamber Music Series

Copland OLD AMERICAN SONGS

Hunter Symphony, NY 

Elgar

CORONATION ODE

Holy Cross College Choir, Guest Artist, MA (Bruce Miller, Cond.)

Fauré

REQUIEM

Canticum Novum (tour of France),
Concord Chorus, MA; Newton Choral Society, MA
St. Cecilia Chorus, NY

 

CAFÉ D’AMOUR (also songs of Ibert, Bizet, Chausson)

Alaska Dance Theater (concept by Paul Houghtaling)

Gounod

MESSE SOLENNELLE

St. Cecilia Chorus, NY (David Randolph, Cond.) 

Haydn, Michael

REQUIEM

St. Cecilia Chorus, NY (David Randolph, Cond.) 

Mendelssohn

BEGRÜSSUNG (American Premiere)

CUNY Graduate Center, NY

Monteverdi

VESPERS

St. Luke in the Fields, NY; Concord Chorus, MA

Puccini MESSA di GLORIA

St. Cecilia Chorus (David Randolph, Cond.)

Schubert

MASS in A FLAT (No. 5), STABAT MATER

St. Cecilia Chorus (David Randolph, Cond.)

Shostakovich

SYMPHONY No. 14

Manhattan Virtuosi Chamber Symphony, NY (Elaine Rinaldi, Cond.)

Telemann

DER SCHULMEISTER (soloist and stage director)

Long Island Baroque Ensemble

Thomson

SONGS OF VIRGIL THOMSON

Harvard Group for New Music (Gunther Schuller, Cond.)
Brooklyn Philharmonic Thomson Fest, NY (Anthony Tommasini, piano)

Vaughan-Williams

DONA NOBIS PACEM

Holy Cross College Choir, MA, Guest Artist (Pamela Getnick, Cond.)

    
EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLES
   

Recordings and performances of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque solo and chamber repertoire throughout the United States including:

The Waverly Consort -- U.S. tours of The Christmas Story, including Kennedy Center performances, and recording on Waverly label.

My Lord Chamberlain’s Consort  -- Performances of Renaissance lute songs (complete books) by Dowland, Morley, Johnson and others at the Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other New York and national series.

The Folger Consort -- Missa Mapa Mundi:  Spanish Music from the Age of Exploration at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Ensemble for Early Music -- Herod and the Innocents, and other Fleury Playbook liturgical dramas, throughout the United States, and in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City.

Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity -- Soloist on historic Bach Cantata series with period instrument ensemble; second oldest series of Bach Cantatas in liturgical context in North America; recordings on Augsburg Fortress label.

BachWorks/BaroqueWorks -- Bach Cantata performances at Merkin and Weill Halls, conducted by Bradley Brookshire and Anthony Newman

Clarion Music -- Variety of Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, conducted by Newell Jenkins and Frederick Hammond, including complete books of Monteverdi madrigals, and productions of John Blow's Venus and Adonis at the Kaye Playhouse in New York and Marazzoli's La Fiera di Farfa.

Les Enterprises Occitanes  -- Songs of the Troubadours at the Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, conceived and directed by Susan Melvoin Martin through support of Fulbright Foundation; performed in original Provencal dialect and in new English translations.

Long Island Baroque Ensemble --  Across the Border, Baroque Music from Poland in Celebration of the Founding of St. Petersburg Russia, with members of Ensemble Rebel; solo cantatas of Bach and Telemann (soloist and stage director)

Amor Artis Baroque Orchestra -- Handel, Samson and Judas Maccabeus, with period instrument ensemble, conducted by Johannes Somary

     

RECORDINGS

 

 

 

 
         

Vocals

NAQOYQATSI  
(movie soundtrack by Philip Glass)

Philip Glass Ensemble Sony 2002

O.J. Simpson

NICOLE & THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY
(Anthony Newman)

 

Albany Records

2000

Soloist

THE CHRISTMAS STORY

The Waverly Consort

Waverly

1999

Laughing Sun

THE WITCHES OF VENICE  
(Ballet by Philip Glass/Beni Montresori)

La Scala Corps de Ballet

Euphorbia/Looking Glass

1995

Soloist

THE MASK / ROMANCERO GITANO 
(Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco)

New York Concert Singers

New World Records

1998

Soloist

DIVINE GRANDEUR 
(Cantatas by
Robert Beaser)

New York Concert Singers

New World Records

1997

Soloist

RESPONSORIA 
(
Richard Toensing)

St. Luke in the Fields

Albany Records/North South

1998

Soloist

A CEREMONY OF CAROLS 
(Works of Howells, Britten, Schütz, Scheidt and others)

St. Luke in the Fields

Prospect Classics

1997

Papageno   

DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE

Teatro Lirico d'Europa   

Bulgarton  

1994

Back-up Vocals

VERY (Pet Shop Boys)

EMI

1992

     

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

     
    

Premieres and performances of new works by both American and International composers (Chambliss Giobbi, William Harper, Martin Kalmanoff, Debra Kaye, Rodney Lister, Anthony Newman, Peter Robles, Amelia Rogers, Andy Vores, others) with several ensembles and producing organizations including Composers in Red Sneakers, Harvard Group for New Music, Dinosaur Annex, ALEA III, Playwright's Platform, New Dramatists, Friends and Enemies of New Music, New Music (Boston), Nu-Classix (Boston), North/South Consonance and others.

 

Bilbao, Beatrice

MADAKA  (NY premiere)

American Composers' Orchestra, Sonidos de las Americas Festival. Weill Hall at Carnegie, NY  

Cage

APARTMENT HOUSE 1776

Cage Celebration (Norton Lectures w/ John Cage), Boston

Crumb

SONGS, DRONES & REFRAINS OF DEATH

Alea III, Boston (Theodore Antoniou, Cond.)

Davies

EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING

Alea III, Boston; 
New England Cons. Contemporary Ens., Boston (Guest Artist, Stephen Drury, Cond.); CUNY Graduate Center (Elaine Rinaldi, Cond.)

Davies

LE JONGLEUR DE NOTRE DAME

Dinosaur Annex, Boston

Davies

THE YELLOWCAKE REVIEW

Boston New Music Fest, staged in the Cabaret of Boston Marriott

Glass

NAQOYQATSI (Movie soundtrack)

Philip Glass Ensemble, Sony

Glass

THE WITCHES OF VENICE

Looking Glass Studios/Euphorbia

Glass

MARRIAGE BETWEEN ZONES 3, 4 AND 5

Demo Recording, Looking Glass

Ligeti

AVENTURES

New England Conservatory Contemporary Ens., Boston 

Koukos, Pericles
Sirota, Robert
Koroupos, George
Goodman, John

CONROY'S OTHER SELVES
THE CLEVER MISTRESS
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
SIMPLE SIMON

The Kalamata Festival, The Iraklion Festival, ALEA III
Festival of New Musicals
by Greek & American Composers. Produced for Greek National Television, Athens, Kalamata, Iraklion (Crete), Greece

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