Richard Crawley
Tenor
American Richard Crawley has established himself as one of today's most exciting and innovative interpreters of the spinto tenor repertoire. Among his triumphs is a debut with the San Francisco Opera singing Cavaradossi in Tosca opposite Carol Vaness; as a result, he was immediately engaged to return to San Francisco Opera for Eugene Onegin, Le Grand Macabre, Dr. Atomic and Norma. Other recent engagements have included a critically acclaimed Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with the Chautauqua Opera as well as Dayton Opera, a debut with Hawaii Opera Theatre as Cavaradossi in Tosca, his first Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera with Opera Santa Barbara, and Don José in Carmen opposite Denyce Graves in Athens, Greece. With less than 2 days' notice and after not performing the role for 5 years, he stepped into the title role of Faust at Portland Opera, and received standing ovations and stellar reviews. Future engagements include his first Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana with Toledo Opera and Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut with Hawaii Opera Theatre.
Career highlights include performances with Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Atlanta Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Tulsa Opera, Opera Colorado, Lake George Opera, Greek National Opera, Syracuse Opera and Augusta Opera; in such roles as Don José in Carmen, Luigi in Il Tabarro, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Sam Polk in Susannah, the Steuermann in Der Fliegende Holländer, the title role in Faust, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Narraboth in Salome, Alfredo in La Traviata, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Alfred in Die Fledermaus and the Marquis in Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann.
Also an accomplished orchestral soloist, Mr. Crawley has performed Handel's Messiah with the New Japan Philharmonic and the Tokyo Oratorio Society, as well as at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. He has sung Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and the Greater Bridgeport Symphony; Mendelssohn's Paulus with the New Japan Philharmonic; the Evangelist/Tenor in Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica; Haydn's Harmonie Messe with the Syracuse Symphony; Haydn's The Creation with Baltimore Choral Arts Society; Bach's B minor Mass with Handel Choir of Baltimore; the Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Concert Artists of Baltimore; and the Mozart Requiem with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and also at Carnegie Hall.