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Rodrigo Gomez
Baritone Rodrigo Gomez sings the role of Vincenzo Biscroma in Viva la mamma. Previous appearances with West Bay Opera include Papageno (Magic Flute), Figaro (The Barber of Seville), Tom/John (Face on the Barroom Floor), Rimbaud (Count Ory), Dancaïre (Carmen), and Belcore (Elixir of Love). Mr. Gomez has performed over thirty operatic roles with various opera companies, including the Manila Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Sacramento Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Nevada Opera Studio, and San Diego Opera Ensemble. His San Francisco Bay Area credits include roles with the Jarvis Zarsuela Festival, North Bay Opera, Pocket Opera, and San Francisco Opera Guild. Concert performances include appearances with Berkeley Symphony, Sacramento Symphony, Solano Choral Society, and the Oakland Symphony Chorus. Recently he performed the world premiere of Ionel Petrov’s Les Mélodies de Sancho Pança (a song cycle for baritone and string quintet) at the Other Minds New Music Festival; the title roles in Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Britten’s Billy Budd (the latter under the baton of Kent Nagano); and appeared as baritone soloist and made his debut as countertenor soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Lesbian and Gay Chorus of San Francisco/Peninsula Ballet Theatre. New York performances include soloist in Luigi Nono’s Epitaffi and Dukas’s Ariane et le Barbe-Bleu with the American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, Requiem (Fauré) with the Little Orchestra Society, and Saint John Passion (Bach) with Gotham Baroque Orchestra.
Mr. Gomez holds a B.M. degree from California State University at Northridge and an M.M. from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has been awarded the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight award, Bay Area Performing Arts Fellowship, the Nancy Hooker Memorial Scholarship, Chevron Foundation Scholarship, the Glendale Symphony’s Hoeft Memorial Award, and prizes from Metropolititan Opera National Council, San José Music Club, Pacific Music Society, and the American Art Song Competition.
