David Neal, Bass-Baritone
Opera
Center for Contemporary Opera:
Love Hurts (Nicolo Moro, Lisa Hilton), Lunatic 1
Symphony Space
BOBBY! (Chandler Carter), Joseph Kennedy, Sr.
Symphony Space
Heloise and Abelard (John Austin), Fulbert
Cell Theatre
A Death in the Family, (William Mayer),
roles of John Henry/Bartender/Stranger
Armel Festival, Szeged, Hungary
The Secret Agent (The Commissioner)
World premiere production
The Kaye Playhouse, NYC
Merkin Hall, NYC (concert performance)
Armel Festival, Szeged, Hungary
Opera-Theatre d'Avignon, France
Lake George Opera:
Gianni Schicchi / Buoso’s Ghost (Simone)
Syracuse Opera:
HMS Pinafore (Dick Deadeye)
Madama Butterfly (The Bonze)
Baltimore Opera:
The Mother of Us All (Virgil T.)
La Traviata (Dr. Grenvil)
The Banff Centre:
The Rake’s Progress (Trulove)
Lyric Opera Cleveland:
Over the Moon with Gilbert and Sullivan (Sullivan)
Tri-Cities Opera:
Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo)
The Magic Flute (Sarastro)
La Bohème (Colline)
Opera Ithaca:
Don Giovanni (Leporello)
Billy Blythe (Grandpa)
The Pirates of Penzance (Sergeant of Police)
Kitchen Theatre:
Bed and Sofa (Kolya)
Opera Vivente:
Don Giovanni (Commendatore)
Pelléas et Mélisande (Arkël)
Sorg Opera/Whitewater Opera:
Tosca (Sacristan)
Viva la mamma! (Maestro)
Pirates of Penzance (Sgt. of Police)
New England Lyric Operetta:
South Pacific (Emile de Becque)
Interact Theatre (Washington, DC):
Pirates of Penzance (Sergeant), Lansburgh Theatre
The Mikado (Pooh-Bah) Folger Theatre
The Very Model of a Modern Major Music Hall,
Arena Theatre
Concert (selected)
Symphoria: Messiah
DiMenna Centre: Winter Songs (Paterson),
American Modern Ensemble
Bargemusic (NYC): Eating Variations (Robert Paterson),
American Modern Ensemble
Symphony Syracuse: Messiah, (Daniel Hege, conductor)
Hamilton College:
B Minor Mass
Alexander’s Feast
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
The TimesCenter (NYC): Winter Songs (Robert Paterson), American Modern Ensemble
Everson Museum (Syracuse):
Winterreise
Song recital
Society for New Music (Syracuse):
The Long Shadow of Lincoln (Stephen Paulus)
Contemporary American Song concert
Sundance (D. Soldier)
Songs of Karel Husa
Ithaca Community Choruses:
Brahms Requiem
Seven Last Words (Haydn)
Elijah (Elijah)
Nelson Mass
Stabat Mater (Dvorak)
Mozart Requiem
Verdi Requiem
Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: Beethoven, Missa Solemnis
Liederkranz Society (New York): Songs of Liebermann, Weill, S. Barab (Savoir Faire, premiere), song recital.
Bay-Atlantic Symphony (NJ): Beethoven, 9th Symphony
York Oratorio Society: Haydn, The Creation
York Symphony: Beethoven, 9th Symphony
Concert Artists of Baltimore: Bach, Mass in B Minor
The Kennedy Center:
Christmas Oratorio (Bach)
Messiah
Commissions and World premieres
Lowell Liebermann
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening: 6 Songs On Poems By Robert Frost
Robert Paterson
Night Songs
Winter Songs (on the Grammy Ballot for Best Classical Composition, 2014)
Seymour Barab
Savoir Faire
Christopher Morgan Loy
Blake Songs
Mark Weiser
Looking Back at Spring
Conductors
Sara Jobin, Grant Cooper, James Ross, Maria Sensi Sellner, Heather Buchman, Robert Paterson, Michael Ching, Daniel Hege, Julius Rudel, Jerome Shannon, Richard Cordova, Curt Tucker, Elizabeth Hastings, John Edward Niles, G. Roberts Kolb, Marc Mellits, Jed Gaylin
Directors
Robert Alföldi, Federica Santambrogio, Sam Helfrich, R. D. Schlather, Sandra Bernhard, Nelson Sheeley, Frank Corsaro, Anthony Salatino, Fabrizio Melano, Peter Sicilian, Richard McKee
Training
Peabody Conservatory, Cornell University, Central City Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia (Studio Artist: Pistola in Falstaff, Julius Rudel, cond.)
Teaching
Voice faculty, SUNY Cortland musical theatre program
Visiting Lecturer, Cornell University
Previous positions: Morgan State University, Peabody Preparatory
The Commissioner in The Secret Agent,
Center for Contemporary Opera
Kolya in Bed and Sofa (with Patrick Oliver Jones and Erica Steinhagen). The Kitchen Theatre.
Grandpa in Billy Blythe by Bonnie Montgomery (with Garrett Obrycki as Billy). Opera Ithaca.
Performance Credits
Simone in Gianni Schicchi, Lake George Opera