Recent Years
While continuing to sing in such performances as A Gala Vienna New Year's Eve with the San Francisco Symphony under conductor Yves Abel and alongside soprano Lisa Vroman, and the role of Martin in Aaron Copland's The Tender Land for the Cabrillo Music Festival, he also began producing recordings. Some of the best known of these are Broadway Classic which he also conducted, starring Lisa Vroman, and Dangerous Type, starring jazz singer and actress Bettina Devin. In the past two decades, he has maintained teaching studios in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, working with such widely varying talents as Metropolitan Opera tenor Raul Hernandez, Bettina Devin of the film Rent, tenor Franc D'Ambrosio of Godfather III fame, TV and stage star Nancy Dussault, Broadway singing actresses Lisa Vroman, Aneka Noni Rose and Karen Morrow, and the Tony Award-winning Dame Edna.
In the Fall of 2009, he guest starred on the HBO TV series Curb Your Enthusiasm, as an amiable opera-singing restaurant owner who was rudely interrupted by Larry David. In March of 2010 he played Tony in Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella to great acclaim with the Silicon Valley Symphony (formerly San Jose Symphony). His longtime friend and colleague Lisa Vroman was his Rosabella. In 2011 he performed the role of William Randolph Hearst in the musical W.R. & Daisy, which he also recorded excerpts of. The same year he filmed the leading role of Mr. Benedict in the Indie thriller No One Will Know
In October 2012 he will guest star as Louie on the hit TV series Bones.
He is also now in his fourth year as resident conductor of the Opera Arts Festival in Palm Desert, California.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it?”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear, that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)