The American bass Arthur Woodley has been acclaimed for his performances in both opera and concert.
This season, Mr. Woodley makes his debuts at the Atlanta Opera as Raimondo and the Kansas City Opera as Don Basilio in
Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Mr. Woodley regularly appears at the Seattle Opera, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Dallas Opera, and the Cincinnati Opera. He also recently made his debuts at the San Francisco Opera, the Pittsburgh Opera, and the Opera Theater of Saint Louis. His many roles have included Varlaam in
Boris Godunov, Bartolo in
Le nozze di Figaro, the Four Villains in
Les Contes d’Hoffman, Kuno in
Die Freischütz, Banquo in
Macbeth, Nick Shadow in
The Rake’s Progress, Sulpice in
La Fille du Régiment, Leporello in
Don Giovanni, Rocco in
Fidelio, Publio in
La Clemenza di Tito, Angelotti in
Tosca, Achillas in
Guilio Cesare, and Dansker in
Billy Budd. ...
read full bioThe American bass Arthur Woodley has been acclaimed for his performances in both opera and concert.
This season, Mr. Woodley makes his debuts at the Atlanta Opera as Raimondo and the Kansas City Opera as Don Basilio in
Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Mr. Woodley regularly appears at the Seattle Opera, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Dallas Opera, and the Cincinnati Opera. He also recently made his debuts at the San Francisco Opera, the Pittsburgh Opera, and the Opera Theater of Saint Louis. His many roles have included Varlaam in
Boris Godunov, Bartolo in
Le nozze di Figaro, the Four Villains in
Les Contes d’Hoffman, Kuno in
Die Freischütz, Banquo in
Macbeth, Nick Shadow in
The Rake’s Progress, Sulpice in
La Fille du Régiment, Leporello in
Don Giovanni, Rocco in
Fidelio, Publio in
La Clemenza di Tito, Angelotti in
Tosca, Achillas in
Guilio Cesare, and Dansker in
Billy Budd.
Mr. Woodley has a distinguished history with the role of Porgy in
Porgy and Bess. He sang the role in concert with the San Francisco Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, and on tour in Italy, including Santa Cecilia in Rome, with Yuri Temirkanov. In staged performances, he has appeared with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Indianapolis Opera, Opera Colorado, the Bregenz Festival, the Savolinna International Festival in Finland, and the Catfish Row Opera Company of Charleston, South Carolina, in a gala celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opera's debut.
In concert, Mr. Woodley most recently sang Handel’s
Messiah in Chicago, and the Rossini
Stabat Mater with the Madison Symphony Orchestra. Other concert engagements have included appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Modesto Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, the Collegiate Chorale at Lincoln Center, and at the Bard Music Festival. He also sang the world premiere of
God, Mississippi, and Medgar Evers with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and was the bass soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Mexico City with Sir Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
Mr. Woodley was born in New York City and raised in Saint Croix. He current resides in Montclair, NJ.
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