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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.
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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).
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| 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. |