Baritone Dominic Inferrera is
gaining a great deal of attention for giving voice to many different
styles of music including opera, oratorio, musical theater, pop, jazz,
and contemporary music. Mr. Inferrera has enjoyed a great deal of
success in many regional opera companies across the country. He won
critical acclaim in the role of The Son in Hugo Weisgall's Six
Characters in Search of an Author with Opera Festival of New
Jersey, where The New York Times proclaimed him a
“standout”. Other roles include Escamillo
in Carmen, Silvio and Marco in Pagliacci/Gianni
Schicchi with OperaDelaware, Masetto (Don Giovanni) with
Toledo Opera and Annapolis Opera, Lescaut in
Opera Memphis's production of Manon Lescaut, Guglielmo
in Così fan Tutte with Capital City Opera, Moralès
(Carmen) with Opera Festival of New Jersey, Escamillo with Union Avenue Opera, Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Nick Shadow (The Rake's Progress), and
with Encompass Opera Theater The Swineherd in John
Harbison's A Full Moon in March.
Mr. Inferrera’s concert repertoire includes Carmina Burana, Faure’s
Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches
Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Aeneas (Dido
and Aeneas) with the Greenwich Village Singers, and Pontius
Pilate in Brooklyn Academy of Music’s critically acclaimed St.
Matthew Passion. He has enjoyed performing contemporary music in
venues such as Merkin Hall and the Moscow/St. Petersburg Contemporary
Music Society, including frequent collaborations with composer Louis
Karchin in pieces such as American Visions, a song cycle on
Yevtushenko poetry with the Da Capo Chamber Players, and Orpheus, a
masque for baritone, chamber ensemble, and dancers available on Albany
Records. Fanfare magazine remarked, “Karchin’s
music is not easy to sing and baritone Dominic Inferrera…
captures the wide range of expression [he] demands of his
singers.”
In addition to the operatic and concert stage, Mr. Inferrera's
performing credits include operetta, musical theater, and pops
performances with Jack Everly and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the
Oregon Symphony, Utah Festival Opera, Colorado Symphony, Ocean City
Pops (New Jersey), and the Naples Philharmonic in Florida with
conductor Erich Kunzel, and the Meredith Monk Ensemble.
Current projects include the role of Tomàs
Cabral in Encompass Opera's development of The Theory of
Everything by composer John David Earnest and librettist Nancy
Rhodes.
Upcoming performances:
December 19, 2008 - Greenwich Village Singers - works by Bach, Purcell,
Handel, Vivaldi - St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village, 371 Avenue
of the Americas (at Washington Place), New York, NY www.gvsingers.org
April, 2009 - The Celebrant -
Bernstein's Mass - The
Schwartz Center for the Arts, Cornell University
Contact:
info@dominicinferrera.com
(917) 854-1025
