John Rodger possesses a 'full lyric tenor voice
of considerable size' and is developing into a promising young
artist.
In the
2009-2010 season Mr. Rodger will cover the role of Haman in Hugo
Weisgall's Esther with New York City Opera, he will return to the
Young American Artists Program at Glimmerglass Opera where he will
sing the role of Gastone and cover Alfredo in La Traviata, he will
cover Cavaradossi in Tosca and the title role in Don Carlos with
Sarasota Opera as a member of the Studio Artists program, he will
sing Luigi in Il Tabarro and Macduff in Macbeth with Taconic Opera
in Westchester, New York, he will sing Riccardo in Un ballo in
maschera with Opera in the Heights, and he will perform the tenor
solo in Mozart's Vesperae solemnes de confessore at Carnegie Hall
with MidAmerica Productions.
Mr. Rodger was a member of the Young
Artists Program at Opera North in New Hampshire in 2007 and the
Young American Artists Program at Glimmerglass Opera in
Cooperstown, New York in 2008.
Mr. Rodger holds degrees
from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington,
the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Queens College of the City
University of New York. He was an Associate Instructor of Music
Theory at Indiana University and a member of the student staff of
the Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center(OBSVAC) directed by
Richard Miller at the Oberlin Conservatory. His principle voice
teachers have been Beverly Coulter, Richard Miller, Mark Oswald,
Timothy Noble, and Arthur Levy.
Mr. Rodger was born in Miami Beach,
Florida, and currently lives in New York City.
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