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Robert Feng

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United States

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Hailed by Opera News as "a booming, well-crafted bass," Chinese-American singer Robert Ellsworth Feng is a born collaborator who creates powerful performances. Robert’s 2023-24 season begins as a Young Artist at Hawai’i Opera Theatre where he will perform the roles of Papa in An American Dream and Colline in La bohème. He also appears with Washington National Opera / Vision Into Art in Paola Prestini’s Sensorium Ex (Ensemble/Corp cover), Glens Falls Symphony as the Bass Soloist in the Mozart Requiem, and Lyric Opera KC / No Divide KC as Shou Zi Chew in the world premiere of Chew On This.
Other performance highlights include Gianni Schicchi (Betto di Signa), Nolan Gasser's The Secret Garden (Ben Weatherstaff), The Pirates of Penzance (Pirate King), Dichterliebe (Soloist), and Madama Butterfly (Bonze/Prince Yamadori) with Hawai'i Opera Theatre, Robert le Diable (Bertram) with St.Johns in the Village, the Mozart Requiem (Bass Soloist) with Mid America Productions, The Garden of Alice (Mad Hatter/Frog Footman/Card #7) with City Lyric Opera, Roméo et Juliette (Frère Laurent), Fiddler on the Roof (Constable/Russian Solo), Daniel Crozier’s With Blood, With Ink (Archbishop Sejas cover), and the world premiere of Robert Carl and Russell Banks’ Harmony (Rev.Joseph Twichell) with Seagle Festival, Juana (Padre Antonio), Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Il Tempo), and Anna Bolena (Rochefort) with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, Don Giovanni (Il Commendatore) with Opera on the Rocks, Les pêcheurs de perles (Nourabad) and Don Giovanni (Il Commendatore) with /Kor/ Productions, and Prince Igor (Khan Konchak) with Russian Opera Workshop.
Not limited to performing standard repertoire, Feng remains active in premiering and performing works by living composers. These include the afformentioned Harmony (Rev.Twichell), Felix Jarrar's You do not recognize the bodies in the water (Body/Interviewer) at OPERA America, Paola Prestini and Brenda Shaughnessy’s Sensorium Ex (Ensemble/CORP cover) with Beth Morrison Projects, and Tony Small’s Qadar (Detective/Body Guard) with the Smithsonian Museum.
Robert placed first in the Dorothy Lincoln Smith Regional Voice Competition, second in the NY Classical Music Society International Voice Competition, third in the Beethoven Club of Memphis Savell Competition, third in the Lyra Mozart International Voice Competition, and third in the Opera for Earth Vocal Competition. Robert is also the recipient of the MI Opera Role Award, Seagle Festival Guild Scholarship, the George Woodhead Prize in Voice, the Peabody Career Development Award, and was awarded the Honorable Mention in the Harold Haugh Light Opera Competition.

Robert holds degrees from Peabody Conservatory and Manhattan School of Music.

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