Tom Fox

Vocalists — Baritone

• Manager: Michael Benchetrit
  Management Territory: Worldwide

"Even though he was the villain, Fox was one of the heroes of Cincinnati Opera’s Otello...which opened Wednesday night in Music Hall. His riveting characterization of Iago, the jealous ensign of Otello, infused the production with electricity whenever he was on the stage. The baritone’s tour-de-force was even more impressive, given that he stepped in just two weeks ago..." —Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati Enquirer, July 8, 2010-Iago in Otello with Cincinnati Opera

About

Tom Fox performs regularly at the most important and prestigious opera houses in the world. In North America, he has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Washington Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Minnesota Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Vancouver Opera, and Canadian Opera Company, among others. Internationally, he has appeared at such opera companies and music festivals as Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich . . . , Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Oper Frankfurt, L’Opera de Paris, Teatro dell’Opera, Rome, Opera de Nice, Opera de Montpellier, Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg, the Festspielhaus und Festspiel Baden-Baden, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Reggio di Torino, Opéra National de la Monnaie, Brussels, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Teatro Municipal, Santiago, as well as the Salzburg Festival and the Savonlinna Festival.

Mr. Fox has a vast repertoire of roles including included Amonasro in Aida, Escamillo in Carmen, Don Pizarro in Fidelio, Scarpia in Tosca, Iago in Otello, Thoas in Iphigénie en Tauride, Ford in Falstaff, Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress, Jochanaan in Salome, the Four Villains in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Gérard in Andrea Chénier, Barnaba in La Gioconda, the Music Master in Ariadne auf Naxos, Bluebeard in Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Prus in The Makropoulos Case, and Dr. Schoen in Lulu, Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande, and Boris in Lady Macbeth of Mzentsk, among many others.

Mr. Fox is particularly highly regarded as an interpreter of Wagner, and has sung most of the leading Wagner roles of his fach: Wotan in Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried, The Dutchman in Der fliegende Holländer, Alberich in Der Ring des Nibelungen, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, Telramund in Lohengrin, Klingsor in Parsifal, and Biterolf in Tannhäuser.

Mr. Fox adds the role of Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger to his repertoire, and will perform the role at the National Theater in Mannheim, and with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Maestro de Burgos. In addition, he performs the role of Alberich in Der Ring des Nibelungen with the Metropolitan Opera Recent notable engagements include performances of Telramund in Lohengrin both with Opéra de Lyon and the Teatro alla Scala, Lescaut in Henze’s Boulevard Solitude at the Liceo in Barcelona, Scarpia in Tosca in Baden Baden, Iago in Otello in Bochum, Palm Beach Opera, and Cincinnati Opera. Performances of Zemlinsky’s Florentine Tragedy in Frankurt, Don Pizarro in Fidelio with the Vancouver Opera and Palm Beach Opera, and Biterolf in Tannhäuser at Baden-Baden.

Updated July 2010

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