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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Performing
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Metropolitan Opera
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Don Carlo in |
La
Forza del Destino |
Barnaba in |
La Gioconda |
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Four Villains in |
Hoffmann |
Escamillo in |
Carmen |
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Don Giovanni in |
Don Giovanni |
Germont in |
La
Traviata, etc. |
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New York City Opera Over forty Leading Baritone roles:
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Rigoletto in |
Rigoletto |
Baron Scarpia in |
Tosca |
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Gerard in |
Andrea Chenier |
Count in |
Le Nozze di Figaro |
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Renato in |
Un Ballo in Maschera |
Manfredo in |
L'Amore di Tre Re |
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Figaro in |
II Barbiere di Siviglia |
Ezio in |
Attila |
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Nottingham in |
Roberto Devereaux |
James in |
Mary Queen of Scots |
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Ricardo
in |
I Puritani |
Enrico
in |
Lucia di Lammermoor |
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San Francisco Opera |
Hamburg Stattsoper |
Canadian Opera |
Portland Opera |
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Frankfurt Stattosper |
Municipal de Santiago |
Treatro de Caracas |
Vancouver Opera |
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La Fenice (Venezia) |
Opera de Montreal |
Houston Grand Opera |
Fort Worth Opera |
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Pact Opera Truk, So Africa |
Opera de Monnaie |
Opera de Quebec |
San Diego Opera |
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Opera Taiwan |
Opera de Mexico |
Miami Opera |
Denver Opera etc. |
Television Opera |
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Second "Live from Lincoln Center" |
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Horace
Tabor, Ballad of Baby Doe |
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Live
from Lincoln Center |
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Lescaut, Manon |
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Live
from Wolf Trap |
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Germont, La Traviata |
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Live
from Wolf Trap |
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Nottingham, Roberto Devereux |
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WGBH
Boston |
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Capt. Jason McFarlane, Lizzie Borden |
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Live
from Opera de Montreal |
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Count de Luna, II Trovatore |
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Live
fro Taipei, Taiwan |
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Baron Scarpia, Tosca |
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Television (Pops Concerts)
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The
Boston Pops-w/Arthur Fiedler |
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"An
Evening with Lerner and Loewe" |
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The
Boston Pops-w/Arthur Fiedler |
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"An
Evening with Cole Porter" |
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Opera
Premieres
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World,
N. Y. City Opera
American, Opera Co. of Boston
No. Amer., Vancouver Opera
World, N. Y. City Opera
American, San Diego Opera
First Major - San Francisco Opera |
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Lizzie Borden - Beeson
The Ice Break -Tippett
Midsummer Nights Dream - Britten
Gentlemen Be Seated
The Young Lord - Henze
Carrie Nation - Moore |
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New York Philharmonic
Philadelphia Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Hollywood Bowl Symphony (20 x's)
Detroit Symphony |
Los Angeles Philharmonic
San Francisco Symphony
Cleveland Orchestra
Sacramento Symphony
Pittsburgh Symphony
San Diego Symphony
Israeli Philharmonic
Vancouver Symphony
Atlanta Symphony
Denver Symphony etc. |
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Musical Theater |
Michigan Opera Theater
St. Louis Municipal Opera Lancelot, Camelot
Sacramento Music Circus
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Don Quixote, Man of la Mancha
Fred/Petrucchio, Kiss Me Kate; Red Shadow, Desert Song
Hajj, Kismet
Leadville Johnny, Unsinkable Molly Brown; Ravenal, Sh |
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Recordings
Kenley Players-Frank Butler,
Annie Get Your Gun; Kiss Me Kate; Show Boat - Unsinkable Molly
Brown - Carousel - Song of Norway - Music Man - Naughty
Marietta - Merry Widow - etc.
Dallas State
Fair Music Hall - Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera - Melody Top, Milwaukee
- Washington Park, Milwaukee - Casa Manana, Fort Worth, -Kansas Starlight Theater |
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Gilbert and Sullivan ... New York City Opera |
Giuseppe - Gondoliers;
Pish Tush, Mikado; |
Captain, Pinafore; Strephan,
Iolanthe;
Samuel, Pirates |
Television (acting) |
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The Odd Couple
Quincey |
Starred as self in "Does Your
Mother Know You’re Out, Rigoletto?” episode 1971
"Honor Thy Father" |
Television
(talk shows) |
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The
Tonight Show - w/Johnny Carson -- 2x's ,The Mike Douglas Show
- 2x's, The Merv Griffin Show - w/Merv - 6x's plus, Christmas
Special: The Dinah Show - 5x's; The Dick Cavett Show - 2x's; The
Steve Allen Show
Commercials
Bigelow Tea - Three commercials, 1985, '86, '87, the first of
which was nominated for a "Clios”;
Strohs Beer
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Treasury of Great Operettas - Recorded five Operetta’s for
Reader's Digest by R.C.A. Victor - Desert Song, Song of
Norway, Red Mill, Showboat, Rosemarie, and Blossomtime. The Tenderland - Columbia - Copland;
Durufle' Requiem, opus 9 -
Summit Records; Lizzie Borden - Desto - Beeson |
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Highlights: |
Administrative and Artistic San Mateo Winter Music Festival
Artistic Director and Soloist, with Patricia Brookes,
Susanne Marsee and Perry Price.
Conceived, cast, budgeted and coordinated a three concert
festival:
Operatic, Symphonic
and Pops, performed over a five day period, with an orchestra
comprised solely of members of the San Francisco and Oakland
Symphonies. John Green, five-time Oscar winner was the Music
Director and conducted all three performances.
The first
evening consisted of a concert version of Rigoletto, which I
edited, as well as selected arias and duets, featuring myself
and members of the N. Y. City Opera.
The second was a
Symphonic Evening programmed and conducted by Maestro Green
which featured Susan Starr, pianist and Raymond Gnewik,
Concertmaster, Metropolitan Opera.
The third evening was An Evening of
Rodgers and Hammerstein with the four solists and the Roger
Wagner Chorale.
Houston Grand Opera - Directed the production
and sang the principal role of the Secretary, in Henze's The
Young Lord, December, 1967. Administrative and Artistic
(Continued)
Honolulu Opera - Directed the entire production
and sang Lescaut in Massenet's, Manon,
Duluth Opera - Directed
and sang Marcello in La Bohème.
Michigan Opera - Directed and
sang Marcello in La Bohème.
Interests and Hobbies:
Licensed Private Pilot: aerobatic pilot, multi-engine,
seaplane ratings.
Yacht Captain: 50 feet plus, diesel and sail.
Small Boat Handling: Ski Boats, Catamaran.
Sailing: Sloop. Ketch and Yawl.
Certified Scuba Diver (has own equipment)
Bicycling, Tennis, Motorcycles, Archery ...
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