Recent Engagements
Night Songs (song cycle by Robert Paterson)
World premiere, Weill Hall / Carnegie Hall
April 2018
Messiah, bass soloist
Cayuga Chamber Orchestra (Grant Cooper, conductor)
December 2018
Peccavit the Pedlar
The Astronaut’s Tale (Fussell)
The Society for New Music, July 2019
Opera Cowpokes (Stull / Goddard)
Triphammer Arts, Inc., August 2019
Coffee Cantata (Schlendrian)
The Jefferson Quartet
Skaneateles, NY
The Passion of Bonhoeffer (Hugh McElwyn), Narrator, Sage Chapel, Cornell University, July 2018.
Oklahoma! (Jud Fry)
Triphammer Arts, Inc.
August 2018.
Mass in B Minor
Bass soloist
Symphoria / Masterworks Chorale
G. Roberts Kolb, conductor
Wellin Hall, Hamilton College
Messiah, Bass soloist
Symphoria / Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Maria Sensi Sellner, conductor
St. Paul’s Cathedral, Syracuse
The Classical Style (an opera, of sorts) (Steven Stucky)
Roles of Tonic, Don Giovanni, Participant 2
Society for New Music
Carrier Theatre, Syracuse NY
Heather Buchman, corductor, Victoria King, dir.
Love Hurts (Nicola Moro / Lisa Hilton)
Role of Lunatic 1
Center for Contemporary Opera (NYC Premiere)
Symphony Space
James Ross, cond. Federica Santambrogio, dir.
The Pirates of Penzance
Role of the Sergeant of Police
Productions with Opera Ithaca and Adirondack Arts Center
Camelot (Merlyn)
Triphammer Arts, Inc.
Swan’s Inlet (Mark Alan Taggart / Ann McCutchan), role of Marco, Center for Contemporary Opera. World premiere, National Opera Center, March 2018.
Winter Songs, Robert Paterson
World Premiere of piano / vocal version
Weill Hall / Carnegie Hall, April 2020
La Boheme (roles of Benoit/Alcindoro)
Opera Ithaca, Sept / Oct 2019
UPCOMING
Merlyn in Camelot (with Rebecca Leistikow as Nimue). Triphammer Arts.
Dick Deadeye in HMS Pinafore (with Elem Eley as the Captain), Syracuse Opera.
The Commissioner in The Secret Agent, Center for Contemporary Opera world premiere production. From a live telecast of performance from Hungarian National Opera in Szeged, HU (with Jodi Karen).
© 2017 David Neal