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Rod Gilfry

Baritone

Biography

American baritone Rod Gilfry — two-time Grammy award nominee, singer, and actor — has performed in all of the world’s music capitals. Best-known as an opera singer, he is also an acclaimed recitalist and concert artist, and appears frequently in musical theater classics.

In the 2019–20 season Mr. Gilfry performs the Father in the world premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice at Los Angeles Opera. In concert, he sings Alfred Stieglitz in Kevin Puts’s The Brightness of Light opposite Renée Fleming with the National Symphony Orchestra and Colorado Symphony. He also sings Claudius in Brett Dean’s Hamlet with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, returns to the Ravinia Festival as the President in Bernstein’s White House Cantata, gives a concert at Old Dominion University with the Norfolk Chamber Consort, and performs a solo recital at Messiah College with pianist Peter Walsh.

Last season, Mr. Gilfry sang Prospero in Miranda (after Henry Purcell) with Opéra Comique on tour at Opéra National de Bordeaux and Théâtre de Caen. He also reprised Mr. Potter in Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life at San Francisco Opera, sang Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at Santa Fe Opera and Korea National Opera, and performed in David Lang’s the loser at Los Angeles Opera. Concert highlights included the world premiere of the expansion of The Brightness of Light at the Tanglewood Festival, Cole Porter songs with the New York Philharmonic, and Aucoin’s Crossing Suite and Mahler’s Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen with the San Diego Symphony.

In addition to his full-time performance schedule, Rod Gilfry is an associate professor of vocal arts at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.

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