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Rodell Aure Rosel will be making his opera/role debut as Goro in Madama Butterfly with Pittsburgh Opera this October 2007, and returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2008 for Falstaff as Bardolfo. He was recently heard singing Altoum/Turandot, Second Jew/Salome, Ruiz/Il trovatore and Benvolio/Roméo et Juliette with Lyric Opera of Chicago. He debuted at Lyric Opera on opening night of the 2005-2006 season as Remendado/Carmen. He has since appeared as the First Priest/Magic Flute, Borsa/Rigoletto and Faninal’s Major-domo/Der Rosenkavalier. A second year member of the Ryan Opera Center (formerly Lyric Opera Center for American Artists), the Manila native studied at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he sang the title role in Britten’s AlbertHerring and leading roles in Mozart, Rossini and Ravel, also appearing as tenor soloist in Messiah and the Mozart Requiem. Other roles he has sung include Basilio/Le nozze di Figaro, Tinca/Il tabarro, Kaspar/Amahl and the Night Visitors, and the First Commissary in Dialogues of the Carmelites. Mr. Rosel was a 2005 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finals Winner, a third-place winner at the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition, a second-place winner at the Lotte Lenya Vocal Competition, and a Loren Zachary National Vocal Competition finalist. He has received scholarships from, among others, The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Mr. Rosel sang with the Angeles Chorale in 2004, as Uriel in Haydn’s Creation.
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