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Evan Jones, baritone Baritone Evan Thomas Jones is making his Mercury Opera debut in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Mr. Jones has sung a wide variety of roles in opera including Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Raimbaud in Le Comte Ory, Marullo in Rigoletto and Sam in Trouble in Tahiti. In addition to an active opera career, Mr. Jones has portrayed a number of roles in music theater and operetta. Highlights include the roles of Voltaire and Pangloss in Candide, Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus and Leon Czolgosz in Assassins. In concert he has been featured as the baritone soloist in Fauré’s Requiem, Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and Serenade to Music, as Porgy/Jake/Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess and John Rutter’s Mass for the Children. Mr. Jones has sung with the Berkshire Opera Company, Compañía Lírica Nacional de Costa Rica, Florida State Opera, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and the Augusta Choral Society. Mr. Jones had a busy 2007-2008 season. With Eastman Opera Theatre he performed the roles of Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music and Danilo Danilovich in The Merry Widow. In October he made his debut with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra as a soloist in Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music as part of the RPO’s “Opening Night Spectacular” and reappeared with the RPO in December as the baritone soloist and narrator in The Polar Express. In February, Mr. Jones made the world premiere recording of Randol Bass’ Passage Into Spirit with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra as the baritone soloist. Mr. Jones also won 1st Prize in the Friends of Eastman Opera voice competition. This coming season, he will be making his debut with Opera Theater of Lakeland as Schaunard in La Bohème. Originally from Buffalo, NY, Evan is a graduate of Florida State University and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in voice at the Eastman School of Music in the studio of Robert McIver. |