Robert Strauss |
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Robert Strauss, tenor Tenor Robert Strauss has sung Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Prologue/Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw), Mayor Upfold (Albert Herring), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Jack Point (The Yeomen of the Guard), Tony (West Side Story), Anthony Hope (Sweeney Todd), and Archibald Craven (The Secret Garden) and most recently Pedrillo (The Abuction from the Seraglio) for Mercury Opera Rochester. He has also toured Italy performing opera scenes and arias from the standard Italian operatic literature with the Centro Studi Italiani Opera Festival. In the summer of 2005, Strauss appeared as one of the tenor soloists in Rossini’s Messa di Gloria in the composer’s hometown of Pesaro. Other performances include the tenor solos in the Mozart and Pinkham Requiems, Messiah, Saint-Saens’ Christmas Oratorio, The Christmas Story by Schütz, A New Creation by René Clausen, and Bending Towards The Light: A Jazz Nativity by Anne Phillips. He has also performed Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. Strauss has directed numerous opera scenes productions and in 2005 he directed the New York State premiere of Felice, an opera by Benton Hess. He has also staged full productions of Dido and Aeneas, Trial by Jury, and Godspell. He has been involved in productions of Oklahoma!, Man of La Mancha, Godspell, and It’s a Wonderful Life, the Musical as music director. Strauss teaches voice at Nazareth College and the Eastman Community Music School, having previously served on voice faculties of colleges in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. He recently completed the Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance and Literature at West Virginia University, and also holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and State University of New York College at Fredonia. |