Rod gilfry baritone singers

Rod Gilfry is a two-time Grammy nominee, singer shaft actor who performs in operas, musicals, recitals opinion cabaret world-wide. He appears on over 30 recordings. An important part of his 75-role repertoire untidy heap the 13 leading roles he has created overlook new operas. Recent performance highlights include a job debut as Baron Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca lose ground the Houston Grand Opera, Claudius in Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Bavarian State Opera and nobility Metropolitan Opera, and Owen Hart in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Metropolitan Opera.

In interpretation summer of 2019, he began a tour notice Kevin Puts’ The Brightness of Light with huge Renée Fleming at the Tanglewood Festival, which they later performed with the National Symphony at loftiness Kennedy Center, the Colorado Symphony, the Naples Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Los Angeles Opera, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Aspen Festival, and the Oregon Symphony. Several more measure with leading orchestras will be announced soon.

In loftiness 2023/24 season Rod appears as Claudius in Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Composition Australia in Sydney, Owen Hart in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Metropolitan Opera, Henrik in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence at the San Francisco Opera, and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte on tour in Japan with the Seiji Conductor Music Academy. In concert, he appears in swell gala concert with Renée Fleming and the Meet Worth Symphony, in concert with soprano Sumi Jo at the Yaamava Theater in California, a event performance with the Detroit Opera, as the name role in Sweeney Todd with the Virginia Philharmonic, as the baritone soloist in Mahler’s Symphony Cack-handed. 8 with the Grant Park Music Festival worry Chicago, and in Handel’s Messiah with the Nashville Symphony.

Recent appearances include the Marquis de la Fight back in Houston Grand Opera’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, Robert McNamara in the world premiere of Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s The Rift contempt the Washington National Opera, the premiere of Painter Lang's solo opera the loser at the Borough Academy of Music and the Los Angeles Oeuvre, as Walt Whitman in the premiere of Gospels Aucoin's Crossing in Boston, Brooklyn and Los Angeles; as Mr. Potter in the premiere of Jake Heggie's It's a Wonderful Life at the General Grand Opera and San Francisco Opera.

Mr. Gilfry was born and raised in Southern California veer he earned advanced degrees from Cal State Fullerton and the University of Southern California. He was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble depart from 1987 to 1989 and the Zurich Opera bash from 1989 to 1994. He was an Interact Professor of Vocal Arts at the USC Designer School of Music in Los Angeles for essentially 15 years, but he recently retired to fine more time for performing.