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Rodrick Dixon
Tenor

Rodrick Dixon possesses a versatile tenor voice of extraordinary range that has earned him the respect of conductors, orchestras, and opera companies throughout North America, including Los Angeles Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Todi Music Festival, Portland Opera, Opera Columbus, Virginia Cincinnati Opera, and Opera Southwest.

On the concert stage, he has appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ravinia Festival, Cincinnati Symphony, American Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Vail Music Festival, Kimmel Center, and the Longfellow Chorus.  He has also performed at Sydney Arts Festival in Australia.  Last season included appearances with the Enescu Festival in the title role of Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg, Philadelphia Orchestra for Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Florida Orchestra for Mozart's Requiem, Calvin University for Handel's Messiah, the Richmond Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Alexandria Symphony for Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and appearances in Detroit and Chicago for Too Hot to Handel.  The current season includes notable debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, Peoria Symphony and South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and returns to the Colorado Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony.  Next season includes his debut at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Froh in Das Rheingold and returns to Los Angeles Opera in the title role of Der Zwerg.

He has appeared on television in a number of PBS specials.  He was part of the original cast of Ragtime on Broadway, and in Show Boat at the Auditorium Theatre.  He has also appeared on recordings (Sony/BMG), PBS Great Performances Cook, Dixoon & Young Volume One, Follow That Star Christmas CD, Liam Lawton's Sacred Land, Rodrick Dixon Live in Concert, and a Christmas album with the Cincinnati Pops.