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![[Dwayne Croft]](/images/_images/_musicians/Dwayne_Croft_95_95.jpg)
Dwayne Croft
baritone
Photo Credit: Karin Cooper
The 1996 winner of the prestigious Richard Tucker Foundation Award, American baritone Dwayne Croft has performed with prominent opera companies throughout the world. Since joining the Metropolitan Opera’s Young Artist Development Program in 1989, Mr. Croft has appeared in more than 300 performances of twenty-five roles with the company, including Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande, the title roles in Billy Budd, Don Giovanni, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Eugene Onegin, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Germont in La traviata, Nick Carraway in the world premiere of Harbison’s The Great Gatsby, Ernesto in Bellini’s Il pirata, Ford in Falstaff, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, de Siriex in Fedora, Valentin in Faust, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Marcello in La bohème, Chorebus in Les Troyens, and Rodrigo in Don Carlo. He has appeared in seven televised Metropolitan Opera productions and on five occasions has opened the Met season. During 2007-08, Mr. Croft creates the role of Robert E. Lee in Philip Glass’s Appomattox with San Francisco Opera and returns to the Met as Germont, Puccini’s Lescaut, and Marcello. Highlights of his concert engagements include two works by Berlioz—Lélio with the San Francisco Symphony and Les Troyens with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood. In Europe, Mr. Croft made his Vienna Staatsoper debut as Count Almaviva followed by Don Giovanni and the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia. At the Salzburg Festival he has sung Count Almaviva, Posa, Ford, and Jaufré Rudel in Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin. In Paris he has sung Posa, Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni, and Sharpless. Mr. Croft made his debuts at the Châtelet in Takemitsu’s My Way of Life, at Venice’s Teatro la Fenice as Eugene Onegin, and at Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice as Billy Budd. Following his German operatic debut as Guglielmo with Cologne Opera, he was immediately reengaged for his signature role, Eugene Onegin. In North America, in addition to his work with the Metropolitan Opera, he appeared as Don Giovanni for his official debut with Washington Opera, returning for Posa, Guglielmo, and Billy Budd. His unscheduled debut there came in 1995 when, after singing a Met matinee performance as Guglielmo, he boarded a private jet to Washington to replace an ailing colleague that evening as Marcello. Mr. Croft has appeared with Lyric Opera of Chicago as Figaro in both Il barbiere di Siviglia and Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles; he has also appeared with San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Baltimore Opera, and the Canadian Opera Company. His German concert debut was as Scherasmin in Weber’s Oberon with the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne, recorded for EMI. He has also recorded Lescaut in Manon Lescaut and Takemitsu’s My Way of Life. Mr. Croft appeared in London’s Royal Albert Hall for a “Pavarotti Plus” gala concert, returning to London for Covent Garden’s “Gold and Silver Anniversary Concert” honoring Plácido Domingo. He makes his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut with these performances of Les Troyens.
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