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Michael Mendelsohn
Michael
Mendelsohn, tenor, sings the role of Sellem in The
Rake’s Progress.
His previous roles with West Bay Opera include Normanno (Lucia
di Lammermoor), Monostatos (The
Magic Flute),
and Peter Quint (The
Turn of the Screw).
The Valley Stream, Long Island, native has also appeared as Alfred (Die Fledermaus) with North Bay Opera, Alfredo (La traviata) with Cinnabar Theater, the Devil (Stravinsky, The Soldier’s Tale) and Pedrillo (The Abduction from the Seraglio) with Pocket Opera, and Spalanzani (Tales of Hoffmann) and Don Basilio (The Marriage of Figaro) with Livermore Valley Opera. He has also performed Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Dr. Caius (Falstaff), Roderigo (Otello), Tinca (Il tabarro), Mime (Das Rheingold), Goro (Madama Butterfly), and the title roles in Bernstein’s Candide and Offenbach’s Bluebeard.
Mr. Mendelsohn’s solo oratorio repertoire includes performances of Monteverdi’s Vespers, Mozart’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle, Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, Bach’s Magnificat, Haydn’s Creation, Nelson-Messe, and Harmoniemesse, and with the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity.
Mr. Mendelsohn is also a voice-over artist with the educational toy company, Leapfrog Enterprises, in Emeryville, and has been a Gong Show winner.
