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GEORGE  CORDES
Bass-Baritone


 

 "a warm, rich voice which ... has presence"
- New York Times

"sang with authority and command of the music"
 - Bay Windows online  

 

 


Opera Roles & Concert Engagements

ROLES PERFORMED

FIGARO in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Theater of St. Louis, New York City Opera, Opera Columbus, Teatro de la Opera (Puerto Rico)
FOUR VILLAINS in Les Contes d’Hoffmann with New York City Opera, Sorg/Whitewater Opera
COLLINE in La Bohème with New York City Opera, Tokyo City Orchestra, Tri-Cities Opera
REV. JOHN HALE in The Crucible with Opera Boston
NICK BOTTOM in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Lyric Opera of Kansas City
SAM in Trouble in Tahiti with University of Texas-Dallas
ESCAMILLO in Carmen with Opera Grand Rapids
MONTERONE in Rigoletto with Houston Grand Opera, Metropolitan Opera in the Parks, New York City Opera
NOURABAD in Les Pecheurs de Perles with Opera Boston
FIRST NAZARENE in Salome with Lyric Opera of Chicago
TIMUR in Turandot with New York City Opera, Opera Tampa, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera
LEPORELLO in Don Giovanni with Syracuse Opera, Bardavon Opera
ANGELOTTI in Tosca with Dallas Opera, Metropolitan Opera in the Parks, New York City Opera, Pittsburgh Opera
SARASTRO in Die Zauberflöte with Tri-Cities Opera, El Paso Opera
DER SPRECHER in Die Zauberflöte with New York City Opera
SCARPIA in Tosca with Opera Mississauga
CASPAR in Der Freischütz with Liederkranz Opera
PISTOLA in Falstaff with New York City Opera
MASETTO in Don Giovanni with New York City Opera
DR. GRENVIL in La Traviata with Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera, New York City Opera
ALI in L’Italiana in Algieri with New York City Opera
TCHELIO in The Love for Three Oranges with New York City Opera
HARASTA in The Cunning Little Vixen with New York City Opera
BADGER in The Cunning Little Vixen with Dallas Opera
MATHIEU in Andrea Chenier with New Orleans Opera
GREGORIO in Romeo et Juliette with New Orleans Opera
BONZE in Madama Butterfly with New York City Opera, Met in the Parks
COMMENDATORE in Don Giovanni with Tri-Cities Opera
FIRST SOLDIER in Salome with New York City Opera, Opera Columbus
SELIM in Il Turco in Italia with: Pittsburgh Opera Center


ROLES COVERED

Metropolitan Opera:

FATHER TRULOVE in The Rake's Progress
GHOST OF HECTOR in Les Troyens
PRITSCHITCH in The Merry Widow

Lyric Opera of Chicago:

OROVESO in Norma

New York City Opera:

DANIEL WEBSTER in The Mother of Us All
ANDREW BORDEN in Lizzie Borden
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN in The Ballad of Baby Doe
BANQUO in Macbeth
SPARAFUCILE in Rigoletto

Santa Fe Opera:

BASILIO in Il Barbiere di Siviglia
SOMNUS & CADMUS in Semele

As Timur in Turandot with New York City Opera


CONCERT APPEARANCES

Verdi Requiem with Boston Bel Canto Opera (2004) and Wooster Symphony (OH)
Handel's Messiah with Hartford Symphony (2003) and Masterworks Chorale (Boston)
Mozart Solemn Vespers with Berkshire Choral Festival in Santa Fe (2003)
Mozart Requiem with Ascension Music (New York City) and Summit Choral Society (OH)
Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Liederkranz Society (New York City) and Summit Choral Society (OH)
Bach's Magnificat with Canton Symphony
Mendelssohn's Elijah with St. Paul's Choral Society (OH)
ALSO: Haydn Harmoniemesse; Schubert Mass in G; Fauré Requiem; Beethoven Mass in C.

Excerpts from Guglielmo Tell (Rossini) and Aida with Berkshire Choral Festival (2000).

Forbidden Fire (world premiere), Scrooge!, and Con Flor y Canto, all by Robert Xavier Rodriguez, with various orchestras and choruses, including Hilton Head Orchestra, Orquesta de las Americas (Mexico City), and University of Miami (FL) chorus and orchestra.


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