San Francisco native, Filipino-American baritone Rolfe Dauz’s performance highlights include Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Leporello and Masetto (Don Giovanni), Figaro and Il Conte (Le nozze di Figaro), Achilla (Giulio Cesare), Claudio (Agrippina), and Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore). In 2016 Rolfe was invited to the Banff Centre’s Open Space: Opera in the 21st Century, performing the role of Junius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, directed by Paul Curran.
Dauz received his master’s degree from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music in 2017, where he worked with Sanford Sylvan and Dawn Upshaw. At Bard, Dauz sang the role of the Sprecher in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and was a soloist in Handel’s Messiah.
He is a recent graduate of the Dutch National Opera Academy and is a recipient of the Holland Scholarship and the Non-EU Talent Grant. Outside of the DNOA, Rolfe has been a soloist singing Bach cantatas with the Bach Collegium‘s Hertogenbosch. He covered Leporello in Orchestra of the 18th Century’s production of Don Giovanni and has been on tour with Opera2Day’s production of Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher. Recently, Dauz gave a Grote Zangers live stream concert in the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ and was seen at the 2021 Holland Festival in Ine Aya’, a new opera by Indonesian composer Yadi Nursalim Anugerah. His vocal-piano duo, Youth and Love, in which he collaborates with Lithuanian pianist Gabrielė Žemaitytė, was recently awarded 2nd prize at the 2021 Copenhagen Lied-Duo Competition.