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2021 Performances

Metropolitan Opera, Officer in Boris Godunov

Santa Fe Opera, Correspondent in The Lord of Cries (John Corigliano), world premiere

Santa Fe Opera, Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Atlanta Opera, Mr. Peachum in The Threepenny Opera

Wiston-Salem Symphony, bass soloist in Messiah

Opera Parallèle, Beck Weathers Everest--a Graphic Novel Opera

voice faculty, University of Tennessee School of Music

*Den Norske, Howard in The Listeners (Missy Mazzoli), world premiere

*Dallas Opera, Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro

2020

Austin Opera, Beck Weathers in Everest

Atlanta Opera, Death in Der Kaiser von Atlantis

*Dallas Opera, Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro

*Santa Fe Opera, Dr. Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia

*Santa Fe Opera, Manuel Toulon/Judge in M. Butterfly, world premiere

*San Diego Opera, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia

*Utah Opera, Dr. Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia

*Fort Worth Symphony, "From hence your memory death cannot take" (Fáncsik), world premiere

*CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

2019

Dallas Opera, General Polkan in The Golden Cockerel

Opera Philadelphia, Benoit/Alcindoro in La bohème

Cincinnati Opera, Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro

Central City Opera, John Claggart in Billy Budd

Atlanta Opera, Warden George Benton in Dead Man Walking

Carnegie Hall, American Symphony Orchestra, multiple roles in Martinu's Julietta

2018

Metropolitan Opera, Spinelloccio in the Gianni Schicchi

Santa Fe Opera, Voltaire, Dr. Pangloss, Martin, and Cacambo in Candide

Santa Fe Opera, Major Domo in the Ariadne auf Naxos

Philadelphia Orchestra, Sacristan in Tosca

Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), Dr. Pangloss/Martin in Candide

Seattle Opera, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte

Seattle Opera, Somarone in Beatrice & Benedict

2017

Metropolitan Opera, Señor Russell in the The Exterminating Angel

Santa Fe Opera, General Polkan in the The Golden Cockerel

Santa Fe Opera, Frosch in the Die Fledermaus

The Dallas Opera, Beck Weathers in Everest - A Concert Performance

Boston Lyric Opera, Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance

2016

Washington National Opera, Sulpice in La fille du régiment

Opera Philadelphia, Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore

Opera Philadelphia, Stobrod/Blindman in Cold Mountain

Atlanta Opera, Osmin in The Abduction from the Seraglio

Atlanta Opera, Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance

Portland Opera, Judge Turpin in the Sweeney Todd

Chautauqua Opera, Ko-Ko in The Mikado

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, bass soloist in Messiah

Dallas Choral Festival, bass soloist in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis

Duke University Chapel, bass soloist in Messiah

2015

Santa Fe Opera, Sergeant Supice in The Daughter of the Regiment

Santa Fe Opera, Stobrod/Blind Man in the world premiere of Jennifer Higdon's Cold Mountain

The Dallas Opera, Beck Weathers in the world premiere of Joby Talbot's Everest

The Dallas Opera, Eric Gold and the Ghost of Vittorio Bazzetti in the world premiere of Jake Heggie's Great Scott

The Dallas Opera, Ob in the world premiere of Mark Adamo's Becoming Santa Claus

Boston Lyric Opera, Leporello in Don Giovanni

Florentine Opera, T.J. Rigg in Elmer Gantry

2014

New York Philharmonic Bienniel, Rodrigo in HK Gruber's Gloria -- A Pig Tale, Alan Gilbert conducting

Santa Fe Opera, Herr Buff/Chamberlain in The Impresario/Le Rossignol

San Diego Opera, Dulcamara in L'Elisir d'Amore

Opera Philadelphia, Bartolo in The Barber of Seville

Portland Opera, Sergeant of the Police in The Pirates of Penzance

Gotham Chamber Opera, The Ogre in Moisés Kaufman's production of El Gato con Botas (Puss in Boots)

Opera Memphis, Ko-Ko in The Mikado

Opera Grand Rapids, Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail

2013

Metropolitan Opera, multiple roles in The Nose and Bottom (cover) in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Santa Fe Opera, Général Boum in La grande duchesse de Gérolstein

Santa Fe Opera, Mr. Justice Sir Alfred Wills and Henry B. Isaacson in the world premiere of Theodore Mossison's Oscar

Seattle Symphony, bass soloist in Messiah

San Diego Opera, Sulpice in La fille du Régiment

New York City Opera, Don Andrès de Ribeira, Viceroy of Peru, in La Périchole

Grand Rapids Symphony, bass soloist in Mozart's Requiem

Duke University Chapel, bass soloist in Messiah

Dichterliebe, Benefit Concert for Piedmont Opera

Commencement Address, University of Tennessee Honors Program

Alumni Promise Award at the University of Tennessee

2012

Metropolitan Opera, Stefano in The Tempest (Thomas Adès)

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Leporello in Don Giovanni (with Gustavo Dudamel)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Doktor in Wozzeck (with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Disney Hall)

Opera Company of Philadephia, the Prophet/King in Nico Muhly's Dark Sisters

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, bass soloist in Messiah

L'Opéra Festival de Québec, Stefano in The Tempest (Thomas Adès)

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia with

Virginia Opera, Ko-Ko in The Mikado

Opéra de Québec, soloist in le Gala de l'Opéra

Opera Grand Rapids, Papageno in The Magic Flute

2011

Santa Fe Opera, Mr. Scattergood in Menotti's The Last Savage

Metropolitan Opera, Doktor (cover) in Wozzeck

Boston Lyric Opera, Death and the Loudspeaker in The Emperor of Atlantis and the Photograph of the Father in the world premiere of Richard Beaudoin's The After-Image

Carnegie Hall, Rabbi Akiva in Haggadah shel Pesach with the American Symphony Orchestra

Gotham Chamber Opera, Prophet/King in the world premiere of Nico Muhly's Dark Sisters

The Princeton Festival, Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress

Les Violons du Roy, bass soloist in Handel's Messiah

Nashville Symphony, bass soloist in Handel's Messiah

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, United States Naval Academy, bass soloist in Handel's Messiah

J.S. Bach's Magnificat and J.C. Bach's Magnificat, bass soloist, Bach-Handel Festival Orchestra

operamission, soloist in "kurt weill uncovered: in cabaret"

2010

Metropolitan Opera, multiple roles (caretaker #2, policeman #3, gentleman #5, respectable lady's son #1, and Kovaloyov's acquaintance #3) in Shostakovich's The Nose (with Valery Gergiev)

Teatro Colon, Colline in La boheme

Verdi's Requiem, bass soloist, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (with Neeme Järvi)

The Ogre in the U.S. premiere of Montsalvatge's El Gato con Botas (Puss in Boots) at the New Victory Theater with Gotham Chamber Opera

Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Phoenix Opera

Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra

Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Knoxville Opera

Handel's Messiah, bass soloist, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra

Phil in Conrad Cummings's The Golden Gate, with American Opera Projects

Soloist and auctioneer in Boston Lyric Opera's Gala "A Roman Affair"

Public Theater, performer in workshop presentation of Jump!

Mozart's Requiem, bass soloist, Artemis Chamber Ensemble

Symphony Space: The Poe Project, American Lyric Theater, world premiere reading of operas composed by Patrick Soluri, Jeff Meyers, and Jay Anthony Gach

Joe's Pub, backup/opera singer in Nora York's concert "Bent Straight"

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, attorney

2009

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, attorney

Metropolitan Opera, alter Diener in Elektra

Teatro Colon, Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Public Theater, performer in workshop presentation of Furtiva Lagrima

Public Theater, performer in workshop presentation of Jump!

Symphony Space, soloist in "Wall to Wall Broadway"

Joe's Pub, backup/opera singer in Nora York's concert "The Standard"

Joe's Pub, backup/opera singer in Nora York's concert "Furtiva Lagrima"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

2008

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, attorney

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Kurtz in workshop performance of Tarik O'Regan's Heart of Darkness

American Symphony Orchestra, Bach's B Minor Mass, bass soloist

Soloist, New York City Opera concert, Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center

Bishop Cauchon/Confessor, Justine Chen's Jeanne, New York City Opera's VOX 2008

BAMcafé, backup/opera singer in Nora York's concert Furtiva Lagrima

Symphony Space, soloist in "Thalia Follies"

Joe's Pub, backup/opera singer in Nora York's concert Furtiva Lagrima

Bowery Poetry Club, backup/opera singer in Nora York's concert Furtiva Lagrima

2007

Seattle Opera, Masetto in Don Giovanni

New York City Opera, Sergeant of the Police in Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance

Spoleto Festival USA, Prud'homme in Gluck's L'ile de Merlin

Boston Baroque, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte

United States Naval Academy and Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Handel's Messiah, bass soloist

Handel's Messiah, bass soloist, Mozart Club in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Columbia Law School, sixth semester: Anatomy of the Large Law Firm, Music and the Post-Socialist State, and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Clinic

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, attorney

2006

Seattle Opera, Mustafá in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeria

Los Angeles Philharmonic, "Time" in the U.S. premiere of Gerald Barry's The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit

Guildenstern in Hershel Garfein's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, New York City Opera's VOX

Handel's Messiah, bass soloist, Mozart Club in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

WNYC's Soundcheck, performance as backup/opera singer in Nora York's band

Joe's Pub, backup/opera singer in Nora York's concert "Furtiva Lagrima"

Bloomsday on Broadway XXV at Symphony Space and on WBAI 99.5 FM, soloist

Symphony Space, soloist in "Wall to Wall Stravinsky"

Columbia Law School, fifth semester: Criminal Investigations, Evidence, Trademarks, Computers/Privacy/the Law, Law and the Theater classes begin

Summer associate with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York City

2005

Claudius in Handel's Agrippina with Opéra de Montréal

Archibald Grosvenor in Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience with New York City Opera

Bottom in Britten's A Misummer Night's Dream with Chicago Opera Theater

Minos in Handel's Arianna in Creta with Gotham Chamber Opera

Sulpice in Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment with Knoxville Opera

Symphony Space, soloist in "The Book that Changed my Life Marathon"

Symphony Space, soloist in "Thalia Follies: Electing a Mayor"

Soloist in Prism Concert's "Heroes, by George", with Judith Clurman

Columbia Law School, fourth semester: Criminal Adjudication, Professional Responsibility, Law and the Music Industry, and Law in the Internet Society classes

Summer associate with Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City

2004

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, bass soloist in Handel's Messiah

Carnegie Hall, DeHorn in Verdi's Un ballo in Maschera with the Collegiate Chorale

Avery Fisher Hall, bass soloist in Liszt's Missa Solemnis and Mendelssohn's Lauda Sion with American Symphony Orchestra

Archibald Grosvenor in Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience, Glimmerglass Opera

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Bass II in Stravinsky's Renard

Utah Symphony, Bass II in Stravinsky's Renard

Priest in U.S. premiere of Sutermeister's Die schwarze Spinne with Gotham Chamber Opera

Symphony Space, soloist in "Thalia Follies: A Political Cabaret"

Columbia Law School, second and third semesters: Real Property, Copyright, Federal Taxation, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Perspecitves on Legal Thought, Foundations of the Regulatory State, Open Source Culture, and Moot Court

"...his singing had an irresistible panache."

- Opera News

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

2003

Metropolitan Opera, Masetto (cover), Don Giovanni

Carnegie Hall, Marquis of Calatrava in Verdi's La forza del destino, with the Collegiate Chorale

Avery Fisher Hall, Chamois Hunter and bass voice in Schumann's Manfred, with American Symphony Orchestra

Popolani in Offenbach's Bluebeard, Glimmerglass Opera

Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Opéra de Québec

Don Alfonso in Cosí fan tutte, Toledo Opera

Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Grand Rapids

Mozart's Coronation Mass, bass soloist, Eos Orchestra

Handel's Messiah, bass soloist, Mozart Club in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Columbia Law School, first semester: Legal Methods, Contracts, Torts, Federal Civil Procedure, and Legal Writing

2002

Leporello in Don Giovanni, New York City Opera

Siroco in L’Étoile, New York City Opera

Don Pasquale, title role, Wolf Trap Opera Company

Fafner in The Rhinegold (chamber version) with Eos Orchestra

Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, San Antonio Opera

Elviro in Xerxes, Wolf Trap Opera Company

Masetto in Don Giovanni, New York City Opera

Pallante in Agrippina, New York City Opera

Angelotti in Tosca, New York City Opera

Messiah, bass soloist, Midland Center for Performing Arts

2001

Papageno in The Magic Flute, New York City Opera

Siroco in L’Étoile, Glimmerglass Opera

Doctor/assassin in Macbeth, Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall

Pish-Tush in Mikado, New York City Opera

Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Harrisburg Opera

Angelotti in Tosca, New York City Opera

Saloon bouncer, footman, Albert, politician in The Ballad of Baby Doe, New York City Opera

2000

Raleigh in Roberto Devereux, New York City Opera

Herald in The Love for Three Oranges, New York City Opera

Mago in Rinaldo, New York City Opera

Mustafà in L'Italiana in Algeri, Wolf Trap Opera

Masetto in Don Giovanni, Wolf Trap Opera

Angelotti in Tosca, New York City Opera

Bass soloist in Handel's Messiah, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes

1999

The Painter in Central Park, New York City Opera

Leporello in Don Giovanni, San Francisco Opera Center

Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore, Opéra National de Paris Young Artists' Program

Colline in La bohème, Opéra National de Paris Young Artists' Program

Don Inigo Gomez in L'heure Espagnole, Opéra National de Paris Young Artists' Program

Wim in Philippe Manoury's 60eme Parallèle, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano conducting

Bass soloist in The Creation, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 
 

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