Rodrick Dixon, Tenor

Biography

Rodrick
Dixon's dramatic stage presence and stunning vocal qualities have
established him as one of the rising stars in opera, contemporary opera,
oratorio, concert/recital, musical theater and television. 

In
2008, for the Los Angeles Opera's Recovered
Voices Project under the baton of James Conlon, Rodrick Dixon delivered
a powerfully gripping performance in the title role of Der Zwerg.  Critics considered his portrayal of
the Dwarf a triumph!  This
Spring, he will sing the Beethoven
Ninth Symphony and appear as Trabuco in the concert version of La Forza del Destino at the May
Festival.  In the fall, he will
make his Philadelphia Orchestra debut singing excerpts of Der Zwerg with Maestro Conlon.  In 2009 Mr. Dixon will make his Los
Angeles Philharmonic debut performing the role of Oedipus in Stravinsky's
Oedipus Rex conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and directed by Peter Sellars.

In
2007, Rodrick Dixon made his LA Opera debut as Walther von der Vogelweide in Wagner's Tannhaeuser and performed excerpts
of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt and
Schuloff's Flammen for
Recovered Voices.  He returned to the May Festival
to sing Rossini's Stabat Mater;
appeared as Lenski in Todi
Music Festival's summer production of Eugene Onegin; and filmed the PBS special The United States Air Force 60th Anniversary: A Musical
Celebration.  The rest of
the 2007 season included duet recitals with Soprano Alfreda Burke for the Umbria Music Festival in Italy,
concerts in Anchorage, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Tennessee, Detroit, Toronto,
Dayton and Chicago.  He
participated as a guest soloist for the Cincinnati Symphony's New
Year's Eve Celebration.

Mr.
Dixon's additional opera credits include Michigan Opera
Theater's and Todi Music Festival's La Fille Du Regiment (Tonio).  He made his debut in Portland
Opera's Les Contes
d'Hoffmann (Hoffmann); Columbus Opera's world
premiere Vanqui (Prince); Virginia Opera's Porgy & Bess (Sportin' Life).  In 1992, he joined the Lyric Opera
Center for American Artists. 
His Lyric Opera of Chicago credits include appearances in Don Quichote, Il Trovatore, McTeague, Un
Ballo in Maschera, La Boheme, La Traviata, and Prince in the world premiere of The Song of Majnun. 
As a Lyric Opera center member, he participated in The Rossini Gala at the Ravinia Festival and a series
of concerts at the Chatele Theater in Paris.

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