Roles I Have Performed

Mozart- Sacred and Profane            Sarastro                   MacPhail Center, Mpls, MN.
Opera’s Greatest Moments                Bass soloist                            Duluth Festival Opera, Duluth, MN
Trial by Jury                                        Judge                                 Woodbury Community Theater, MN.
The Mikado                                          Pooh-Bah                      Salt Marsh Opera, Mystic, CT.
Camelot                                              King Arthur                Chaska Valley Theater, MN.
La Bohème                                           Colline                                   Akron Opera/Wooster Symphony
La Traviata   Dr. Grenvil                                     Fargo-Moorhead Civic Opera
Il Trovatore     Ferrando                      Central WI. Symphony Orch.
Rape of Lucretia Collatinus                          Ted Mann Theater/University of MN.
Amahl and the Night Visitors    Balthazar                                 Theater in the Round- Mpls, MN.
Tosca Angelotti                                          Anoka Opera – Anoka, MN.
The Crucible Reverend Hale                       Opera 101 Theatre Co. Mpls, MN.
Dido & Aeneas Aeneas                                Rutgers' Athaneum for Early Music
La Bohème Customs House Guard                                   San Diego Opera
Die Fledermaus Frank                                   Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera

...In Addition to G & S!

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I was a Founding Member of the San Diego Gilbert and Sullivan Company, [S D G & S] later San Diego Comic Opera; and was the resident bass-baritone for a number of years, doing such roles as:

Pooh-Bah Mikado

Mikado Mikado

Col. Calverly Patience

Lord Mountararat Iolanthe

Private Willis Iolanthe

Box Cox and Box

King Hildebrand Princess Ida

Sir Richard Cholmondely Yeoman of the Guard

Don Alhambra Gondoliers

I have been extremely fortunate to have known and worked with three former D'Oyly Carte personnel- John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, and Thomas Lawlor- who said to me during the Mikado:

'John, you do G&S better than any American I have ever met.'

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Roles I Have Performed

...In Addition to G & S!

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