Rodrick Dixon
Rodrick Dixon possesses a tenor voice of extraordinary range and versatility that has earned him the respect and attention of leading conductors, orchestras, and opera companies throughout North America.
Notable operatic engagements include: Los Angeles Opera in the title role of Zemlinky=s Der Zwerg conducted by James Conlon, and as Walther von der Vogelweide in Tannhauser, Michigan Opera Theater as Tonio in La Fille Du Regiment, Todi Music Festival as Lenski in Eugene Onegin and as Tonio, Portland Opera in the title role of Les Contes d=Hoffmann; Opera Columbus for the premiere of Vanqui (Prince); and the Virginia Opera as Sportin= Life in Porgy & Bess, Cincinnati Opera as the Duke in Rigoletto, and Opera Southwest in the title role of Rossini=s Otello St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Radio Italiana Torino (Italy) (Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer), plus the title role in Zemlinsky=s Der Zwerg for the Enescu Festival in Rumania, debuts with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra as Molqui in Adams= The Death of Klinghoffer and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in Das Rheingold. The current season includes his return to Los Angeles Opera in the title role of Zemlinky=s Der Zwerg.
On the concert stage, he is a regular guest of the Philadelphia Orchestra (Beethoven=s Symphony No. 9 and Missa Solemnis, Hannibal Lukumbe=s One Land, One River, One People), Cincinnati May Festival (Orff=s Carmina Burana, Stravinsky=s Oedipus Rex, Janacek=s Glagolitic Mass, Mahler=s Das Klagende Lied, Beethoven=s Symphony No. 9, Carmina Burana, Rachmaninoff=s The Bells, Rossini=s Stabat Mater and Nathaniel Dett=s The Ordering of Moses in Cincinnati and in New York=s Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic and at the Sydney Arts Festival in Australia (title role of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex conducted by Esa-Pekka-Salonen), Ravinia Festival (Rachminoff=s The Bells and Mahler=s Das Lied von der Erde), City of Birmingham Orchestra in England (Nathaniel Dett=s The Ordering of Moses ), Cleveland Orchestra (Gershwin=s Porgy and Bess, American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein (Delius= A Mass of Life), The Longfellow Chorus for a program of works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor which was recorded and included in a film about the composer, and the Choral Arts Society of Music as the Celebrant in Bernstein=s Mass, Madison Symphony (Janacek=s Glagolitic Mass), Colorado Symphony and Sao Paolo (Brazil) (Too Hot to Handel), Florida Orchestra (Mozart Requiem), plus Beethoven=s Symphony No. 9 with the Cincinnati Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Asheville Symphony South Dakota Symphony and Richmond Symphony. Recent appearances include the Nashville Symphony in Hannibal Lukumbe=s The Jonah People, the New York Philharmonic in Hailstork=s Done Made My Vow, Aspen Festival as tenor soloist in Mahler=s Das Lied von der Erde and the Baltimore Symphony in To Awaken The Sleeper. The current season includes return engagements in South Dakota, Nashville, and Richmond.
His extensive television credits include PBS specials: The US Air Force 60th Anniversary Gala (2007), Cook, Dixon & Young Volume One (2005), Washington Opera Gala at Constitution Hall (2003), The Mark Twain Awards Honoring Whoopi Goldberg at Kennedy Center (2002), My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs at City Center (2000). Other TV appearances include: The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS/NPR (2006), The Jerry Lewis Telethon (2002-2003), Marshall Fields= Christmas Commercials (2002), TV One=s Christmas Specials (2006/07), WGN=s A Christmas Glory (2003 and 2006), The Tony Awards (1998), NBC=s Today Show, Good Morning America, The Rosie O=Donnell Show (2002) and The Wayne Brady Show. Rodrick Dixon=s musical theater credits include the original cast of Ragtime on Broadway, Show Boat at the Auditorium Theatre, Pops Concerts at Grant Park Music Festival, The Chicagoland Pops Orchestra at the Rosemont Theater and the Cincinnati Pops with Erich Kunzel, and Christmas concerts of Too Hot To Handel at the Detroit Opera House and at the Auditorium Theatre.
Recordings include (Sony/BMG), PBS Great Performances Cook, Dixon & Young Volume One released in (2005), Follow That Star Christmas CD (2003), Liam Lawton=s Sacred Land (2006) and Rodrick Dixon Live in Concert (2008) and a Christmas album with the Cincinnati Pops.