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Tenor, Stage director, Actor, Conductor

David Gordon

Kalamazoo, MI, US

United States

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After several years of theatrical directing and design study at the University of
Michigan, David had a brief career as a theatre
technician in NYC (notable for Blue Man
Group) before returning to the UofM for a music degree, studying voice under the
mentorship of Professor and legendary Metropolitan Opera tenor George Shirley. David
went on to earn a full scholarship and Master of
Music degree at Manhattan School of
Music, where he currently teaches on the voice and opera faculty of the Precollege
Division. His students have been accepted at all of the major music conservatory and
university music programs in the United States. Davi
d currently studies vocal technique
with Michael Paul.
A specialist in the bad guys, old guys, and monsters of contemporary opera, David has
sung with Trilogy: An Opera Company, a Newark
-
based and artist
-
led organization
dedicated to operatic works by and
about African Americans. David holds the dubious
distinction of having originated, in Newark, the role of Donald Trump in Anthony Davis’
Pulitzer Prize winning opera (CENTRAL PARK) FIVE, along with founder Kevin Maynor,
music director Maestro Julius Willi
ams, director Mark Clayton Southers and the other
fine singers of Trilogy: AOC, in November of 2016. David has played terrible and not
-
so
-
terrible white guys in several other Trilogy productions, including works by Dorothy
Rudd Moore, Thea Musgrave, and M
ichael Rafael.
David has sung many productions and readings of new works with the Center for
Contemporary Opera (CCO), including their award
-
winning production of William
Mayer’s A DEATH IN THE FAMILY. With COO, David has also sung works by Peter
Westerga
ard, Rachel Peters, Royce Vavrek, Richard Alan White, Nicola Moro, J. Mark
Scearce.
David has also sung works by William Bolcom, Benjamin Britten, Deborah Drattell,
Henry Mollicone, and Kamala Sankaram. Some favorite roles: Herodes in Strauss’
SALOME; Log
e in Wagner’s DAS RHEINGOLD; Spalanzani in Offenbach’s LES COMTES
D’HOFFMANN; Elders Gleaton and Hayes in Floyd’s SUSANNAH; Buddy Sorrel in a jazz
-
opera adaptation of THE LIFE AND LOVES OF JOE COOGAN (an episode of the Dick Van
Dyck show). In early 2021,
David will be heard as George Papandreiou in the upcoming
recording release of ANGELA’S RING, a big
-
band opera by Marie Incontrera and Kabir
Sehgal.
As a stage director, David has worked with Ramapo College of New Jersey (
Spring
Awakening
,
Urinetown
,
Troja
n Women 2.0
,
Top Girls
by Caryl Churchill), Opera on Tap
(
Le nozze di Figaro
), and Opera Grows in Brooklyn (
Filthy Habit
, Prairie Dogs
from
Wild
Beasts of the Bungalow
),
Pied Piper Children’s Theatre (
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
)
among others.

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