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date = "2018-10-21T21:01:00-04:00"
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Recognized by opera companies and critics alike as one of the true Verdi baritones gracing stages today, Todd Thomas continues his tenure as one of America’s most sought-after artists. In the title role of **_Macbeth_**, Opera News depicted his performance as “warm and centered in his tone with subtle phrasing that emphasized the introspective, almost poetic quality of the tormented king.” Performing the role of Iago in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s season opening performance of Verdi’s **_Otello_**, “earned him deservedly the largest ovation at the end of the night from the glittery opening night audience.” (The Chicago Classical)

Last season, Mr. Thomas performed the title role in **_Nabucco_** with Theater Erfurt in Germany, the title role of **_Rigoletto_** for both Florentine Opera and Florida Grand Opera, and Michele in **_Il Tabarro_** with Opera Santa Barbara. In concert, Todd performed with the North American Festival of Wales and the Bel Canto Center for the Performing Arts. This season, Thomas is invited back to the Shanghai Opera House for his captivating portrayal of **_Der fliegende Holländer_**, and perform the role of Scarpia with Florida Grand Opera, Opera Memphis, Opera on the James, and Charlottesville Opera, as well as Amonasro in Tulsa Opera’s **_Aïda_**. Additionally, Todd will be seen in concert at Opera Southwest and with Maryland Opera.

The ‘20-‘21 season included **_Rigoletto_** for Tulsa Opera’s outdoor baseball stadium production, as well as for Shreveport Opera’s production. Mr. Thomas has performed Michele/Schicchi in **_Il Trittico_** with Pacific Opera Victoria, his Opera Shanghai début as the title role in Wagner’s **_Der fliegende Holländer_**, Tonio/Alfio in **_I Pagliacci/Cavalleria Rusticana_** for Opera Omaha, the title role of **_Gianni Schicchi_** with Opera Memphis, Scarpia in **_Tosca_** with New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Melchoir in **_Amahl and the Night Visitors_** with Steamboat Springs Symphony, the title role in Wagner’s **_Der fliegende Holländer_** with Baltimore Concert Opera, performed in Opera Santa Barbara’s Gala Concert, performed as a soloist in “Verdi in the Valley” with Maryland Opera, and as a soloist in Ocean City Pop’s **_Star Spangled Spectacular_** concert. He also performed at Theater Erfurt in a ground-breaking production of **_Der fliegende Holländer_** and sang the title role of **_Falstaff_** with the Crested Butte Festival, in addition to his role there as Artist-in-Residence.

Engagements have also included returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Monterone in **_Rigoletto_**, the title role of Verdi’s **_Falstaff_** with Manitoba Opera, Sharpless in **_Madama Butterfly_** and Renato in **_Un Ballo in Maschera_** with Florida Grand Opera, the title role in **_Rigoletto_** with Atlanta Opera, Scarpia in **_Tosca_** and Rolando in **_La Battaglia di Legnano_** with Sarasota Opera, Germont in **_La traviata_** with Des Moines Metro Opera, Alberich in **_Das Rheingold_** with Pacific Opera Victoria in Canada, and Iago in **_Otello_** with Arizona Opera.

Mr. Thomas’ made his Metropolitan Opera début as Dr. Metivier in **_War and Peace_** and subsequently returned for **_Roméo et Juliette_**. Other engagements have included Count di Luna in **_Il trovatore_** and **_Falstaff_** with the Seattle Opera; title role in **_Rigoletto_** at Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Birmingham, Manitoba Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Atlanta Opera, and Austin Lyric Opera; Scarpia in **_Tosca_** at New York City Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Michigan Opera Theatre, Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, Orlando Philharmonic, and Opera Carolina; the title role in **_Falstaff_** with Opera Santa Barbara; Tonio/Alfio in **_Pagliacci_**/**_Cavalleria Rusticana_** with Arizona Opera and Opera Omaha; Count di Luna in **_Il trovatore_** at the Manitoba Opera and Indianapolis Opera; Sharpless in **_Madama Butterfly_** with Opera Carolina, Opera Omaha, and Florida Grand Opera; and Amonasro in **_Aïda_** with Opera Carolina and North Carolina Opera.

Mr. Thomas remains a house favorite for several opera companies, appearing season after season. For Nashville Opera, he has he has appeared in two productions of **_Pagliacci_** as Tonio, as Amonasro in **_Aïda_**, as **_Rigoletto_**, and in **_Amahl and the Night Visitors_**, **_L’enfant et les sortilèges_**, and **_The Lighthouse (Davies)_**. With Des Moines Metro Opera, performances have included Germont in **_La traviata_**, King Melchior in **_Amahl and the Night Visitors_**, Captain Balstrode in **_Peter Grimes_**, **_Rigoletto_**, **_Macbeth_**, Iago in **_Otello_**_,_ _and Renato_ in **_Un ballo in maschera_**_._ With the Chautauqua Opera: Miller in **_Luisa Miller_**, Enrico in **_Lucia di Lammermoor_**, Count di Luna in **_Il trovatore_**, Sharpless in **_Madama Butterfly_**, and Scarpia in **_Tosca_**_._ Mr. Thomas also appeared in more than 50 performances with the Sarasota Opera including Jack Rance in **_La fanciulla del West_**, Ezio in **_Attilla_**, Enrico in **_Lucia di Lammermoor_**, Scarpia in **_Tosca_**, and the title roles of **_Falstaff_**, **_Nabucco_**, and **_Macbeth_**. Of a recent **_Falstaff_** performance, _Opera News_ said, “Thomas’s forthright vocalism (featuring wonderful top notes) and apt physique give him a leg up in this part, but he also captured the generous, earthy spirit of Shakespeare’s creation, giving the evening its comic and emotional fulcrum…it’s hard to imagine there are many better Falstaffs working on North American stages today.”

In concert, Mr. Thomas’ most recent engagements include Leoni’s **_L’oracolo_** and Montemezzi’s **_L’incantesimo_** with Teatro Grattacielo at Avery Fisher Hall; his Carnegie Hall début in Duruflé’s **_Requiem_** and Mark Hayes’ **_Te Deum_** and **_Spirit Suite_** followed by returns for Händel’s **_Messiah_** and Mozart’s **_Coronation Mass_**. He enjoyed great success in the world premières and subsequent performances as the baritone soloist in Bob Aldridge’s **_Parables_** with the Topeka Symphony. He also sang Beethoven’s **_Ninth Symphony_** with the Evansville Philharmonic and numerous pops concerts with the Ocean City Pops Orchestra. Recital dates have included appearances on the various concert series of Elmira College, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Wednesday Music Club Series of Harrisburg PA, and the Glenridge Series of Sarasota. He also sang a solo recital entitled “If Music be the Food of Love” in Winnipeg, Manitoba as part of a fundraising event for the Community Ministries of The Westminster Church of Winnipeg.

Early in his career, Mr. Thomas was a member of the MusikTheater Ensemble for Stadttheater Giessen. During his years in Europe, he was a guest artist in Basel, Switzerland, and Heidelberg, Germany, and made his début with Macedonia Opera as Amonasro in **_Aïda_**. Mr. Thomas also appeared in Hong Kong, Fiesole, Pisa, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Sarlat, Luzerne, and Utrecht, under the auspices of Stichting Pagliacci of Utrecht University.

Mr. Thomas can be heard on the Naxos recording of Menotti’s **_Amahl and the Night Visitors_**. He also recorded a solo disc, **_Crown Him Lord of All_**, with Jon Spong, organist.