GEORGE CORDES
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Opera

Opera (Covers)

TRULOVE   The Rake's Progress

 Metropolitan Opera

GHOST OF HECTOR   Les Troyens

 Metropolitan Opera

PRITSCHITCH   The Merry Widow

 Metropolitan Opera

OROVESO   Norma

 Lyric Opera of Chicago

DANIEL WEBSTER   Mother of Us All

 New York City Opera
ANDREW BORDEN   Lizzie Borden
 New York City Opera
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
The Ballad of Baby Doe
 New York City Opera
BANQUO   Macbeth
 New York City Opera
SPARAFUCILE   Rigoletto
 New York City Opera
OPERA SINGER   Intermezzo

 New York City Opera

BASILIO   Il Barbiere di Siviglia
 Santa Fe Opera

SOMNUS & CADMUS   Semele

 Santa Fe Opera

 

FIGARO   Le Nozze di Figaro
 
Opera Theater of St. Louis,
 New York City Opera, Opera Columbus,
 Teatro de la Opera (San Juan, P.R.)
ANGELOTTI   Tosca
 Dallas Opera, New York City Opera,
 Met in the Parks, Pittsburgh Opera

LEPORELLO   Don Giovanni
 Syracuse Opera, Bardavon Opera

TIMUR   Turandot
 
New York City Opera, Opera Tampa,
 Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera

COLLINE   La Bohème
 New York City Opera, Tri-Cities Opera.
 Tokyo City Orchestra

MONTERONE   Rigoletto
 New York City Opera, Met in the Parks,
 Houston Grand Opera

BONZE   Madama Butterfly
 
Met in the Parks, New York City Opera

FIRST NAZARENE   Salome
 Lyric Opera of Chicago

NOURABAD   Les Pecheurs de Perles
 Opera Boston

REV. JOHN HALE   The Crucible
 Opera Boston

BOTTOM   Midsummer Night's Dream       
 
Lyric Opera of Kansas City

SARASTRO   Die Zauberflöte
 
Tri-Cities Opera, El Paso Opera

VILLAINS   Les Contes d’Hoffmann
 
New York City Opera, Sorg Opera

COMMENDATORE   Don Giovanni
 
Tri-Cities Opera

ESCAMILLO   Carmen
 
Opera Grand Rapids

SCARPIA   Tosca
 
Opera Mississauga

CASPAR   Der Freischütz
 
Liederkranz Opera

FIRST SOLDIER   Salome
 
New York City Opera, Opera Columbus

MASETTO   Don Giovanni
 
New York City Opera

DER SPRECHER   Die Zauberflöte
 
New York City Opera

PISTOLA   Falstaff
 
New York City Opera

DR. GRENVIL   La Traviata
 
Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera,
 New York City Opera

ALI   L’Italiana in Algieri
 
New York City Opera

TCHELIO   Love for Three Oranges

 New York City Opera

HARASTA   The Cunning Little Vixen
 
New York City Opera

BADGER   The Cunning Little Vixen
 
Dallas Opera

MANDARIN   Turandot
 
Dallas Opera, Pittsburgh Opera

POLICE COMMISSAR   Der Rosenkavalier
 
Pittsburgh Opera

MATHIEU   Andrea Chenier
 
New Orleans Opera

GREGORIO   Romeo et Juliette
 
New Orleans Opera

DULCAMARA   L'Elisir d'Amore
 
Pittsburgh Opera Center

SELIM   Il Turco in Italia
 
Pittsburgh Opera Center

 

FALKE   Die Fledermaus
 
Opera by the Bay
FALSTAFF   Merry Wives of Windsor

 Ohio Light Opera
POOH-BAH   The Mikado
 
Ohio Light Opera
MIKADO   
The Mikado
 
Ohio Light Opera
SIR RODERICK   Ruddigore
 Ohio Light Opera
OLLENDORF   The Beggar Student
 
Ohio Light Opera
LT. CHOLMONDELEY

Yeomen of the Guard
 
Cleveland Opera
SERGEANT OF POLICE   
The Pirates of Penzance
 
Singers' Club of Cleveland
HEL HELSON   Paul Bunyan  
 Singers' Club of Cleveland
BILLY   Some Enchanted Evening
 Opera by the Bay
ALFIE DOOLITTLE   My Fair Lady
 
Akron Civic Theater
GOVERNOR/INNKEEPER

Man of La Mancha
 
Akron Civic Theater

 

 

Operetta & Musical Theater

Requiem   Fauré

 Berkshire Choral Festival (2009)

Magnificat    Mendelssohn
 
Berkshire Choral Festival (2009)

Requiem   Verdi
 
Downtown Singers (2009), Boston Bel Canto Opera, Wooster Symphony
Requiem   Mozart
 
Plymouth Symphony (2008), Middletown Chorale (2006), Ascension Music
Dover Beach   Barber

 Duxbury Music Festival (2008)

Messiah   Handel
 
Hartford Symphony, Masterworks Chorale
Solemn Vespers of the Confessor   Mozart
 
Berkshire Choral Festival (Santa Fe)
St. Matthew Passion   Bach
 
Liederkranz Society, Summit Choral Society
Magnificat   Bach
 
Canton Symphony
Elijah   Mendelssohn
 
St. Paul's Choral Society

Guglielmo Tell & Aida excerpts   Rossini, Verdi
 
Berkshire Choral Festival

Haydn Harmoniemesse; Schubert Mass in G; Beethoven Mass in C

 Various orchestras & choral groups

Forbidden Fire (world premiere)    Robert Xavier Rodriguez

 University of Miami (Albany CD: RXR: Works for Chorus & Orchestra)

Scrooge!    Robert Xavier Rodriguez

 University of Miami (Albany CD: RXR: Works for Chorus & Orchestra),

 Hilton Head Orchestra, University of Texas-Dallas

Con Flor y Canto    Robert Xavier Rodriguez

 University of Miami (Albany CD: RXR: Works for Chorus & Orchestra),

 Orquesta de las Americas (Mexico City)

 

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