The THREE MO' TENORS:
Rodrick Dixon was the 1991 winner of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation and the Mary Dawson Art Guil "Tenor of the Year" Award. Among his operatic roles are: Ruiz in Verdi's Il Trovatore, Rodriguez in Massenet's Don Quichotte, Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Gonzalve in Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole and Hoffman in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman; he has sung with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Lyric Center for American Artists, Virginia Opera, Columbus Opera, and the Portland Opera, among others.
Thomas Young is the senior member of the group. He has performed as a prinicpal soloist in concert halls and opera houses worldwide, singing under the baton of Zubin Mehta, Roger Norrington, Sir Simon Rattle and Esa Pekka-Salonen, among others. He was last seen on Great Performances in the program Aida's Brothers and Sisters: Black Voices in Opera. Roles have been written for him by Tan Dun (Marco Polo), Anthony Davis (Amistad, Under the Double Moonm The Life and Times of Malcolm X), and John Adams (The Death of Klinghoffer).
Victor Trent Cook's professional debut was as the Boy Alto Solo in Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, performed with the New York Philharmoniv under the baton of Zubin Mehta. He has sung with James Levine and Seiji Ozawa, appearing at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Boston Symphony Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center. Nominated in 1995 for a Tony for his performance in Smokey Joe's Cafe, he is a veteran of numerous off-Broadway productions.