Grammy Award-winning bass baritone Mark S. Doss will perform a guest artist recital at the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center, Wednesday, March 7.
He will be accompanied by pianist Robert Thieme of the WVU School of Music faculty. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (200A).
The event is free and open to the public.
Doss has sung 55 roles in more than 60 major opera houses around the world, the most notable being Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the Vienna State Opera, London’s Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera.
At the age of only 28, Doss first sang on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Last fall, he sang the role of Thoas in Gluck’s “Iphig�nie en Tauride” to open the Canadian Opera Company’s 2011-2012 season. In the summer of 2011, Doss took the stage as M�phistoph�l�s in Gounod’s “Faust” with the Santa Fe Opera. Prior to that, he made his debut with the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Italy, as Priest Grigoris in “The Greek Passion,” and in March 2011 he successfully made his debut at the Vienna State Opera as Amonasro in “Aida.”
He will again perform the role of Amonasro in “Aida” in an upcoming performance with Opera Tampa in Tampa, Fla., April 20 and 22.
Doss has sung under the batons of notable conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Daniel Barenboim and Robert Shaw, and has been featured with the major orchestras of Cleveland, Chicago and Philadelphia. During the 2011 holiday season, he was once again welcomed back to Chicago as the bass soloist in Handel’s “Do-It-Yourself Messiah,” one of the city’s most beloved holiday traditions.
Other upcoming engagements include a new opera called “Slow Man” in Poznan, Poland, the title role in Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” with Teatro Regio di Torino in Turin, Italy, and the Four Villains in the “Tales of Hoffman” with Tokyo Opera in 2013.
A highly sought after anthem performer, Doss was recently welcomed to sing the National Anthems at a Toronto Blue Jays versus Boston Red Sox game in Toronto in Sept. 2011. He was awarded Planet Africa’s prestigious Entertainment Award the following month.
For more information, please see his website at: http://www.marksdoss.com/.
For more information about the recital, contact the College of Creative Arts at (304) 293-4359.
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CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4359, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu
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