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Baritone Tad Czyzewski has appeared on Kennedy Center stages as the soloist in the Brahms Liebeslieder with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet ("fine bass", New York Times), as the thief in Grieg's Peer Gynt with the National Symphony Orchestra, and in a new electronic opera for the Page-to-Stage Festival. He has performed with the Washington National Opera, Virginia Opera Spectrum Resident Artists Program, Opera Alterna, Summer Opera Theatre Company, Master Chorale of Washington, and Choralis, among others.
Among the roles in his operatic repertoire are Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore, Marcello and Schaunard in La Bohème, the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro, the title role in Signor Deluso, Baron Douphol and Germont in La Traviata, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Valetin in Faust, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, Dr. Gregg in Gallantry, and Damis in Tartuffe.
Mr. Czyzewski is equally versed in concert repertoire and oratorio works. Performances have included the Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, Handel Messiah, Mendelssohn St. Paul, Fauré Requiem, Duruflé Requiem, Schubert Mass in C, Mozart Missa Brevis in B Flat (K.275), excerpts of Bernstein’s Mass, and the Washington, D.C., premiere of Rutter’s Mass of the Children.
Upcoming engagements include Marcello (Bohème) and the Mandarin (Turandot) in an all Puccini concert with the Washington Chorus, the baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with Choralis, and as the baritone soloist in the Fauré and Mozart Requiems in the Washington’s Summer Sings series.