Carl DuPont received Bachelors and
Masters degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Indiana University
respectively. While in Rochester, Carl was a frequent recitalist under
the auspices of the William Warfield Foundation, sang
Méphistophélès in Schumann’s Faust with the
Eastman Symphony, and Pandolfe in Cendrillon. In Bloomington, he sang
bass solos in oratorios by Rheinberger and Mozart, performed in a
Liederabend under the guidance of Roger Vignoles, participated with the
Bloomington Early Music Festival’s production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo as
Plutone, and received a Performers’ Certificate for his degree recital.
His IU Opera Theatre debut was as Graf Lamoral in Arabella, Dulcamara
in L’elisir d’amore and Randolf in Bolcom’s A Wedding soon followed.
His Carnegie Hall debut singing Handel with Ton Koopman came shortly
thereafter as member of a select group of singers and his professional
operatic debut, as Ramfis in Aida with Cedar Rapids Opera, after that.
He joined the Pine Mountain Music Festival as a resident opera artist
singing Geronimo in Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto and Sarasota Opera
covering the role of Lord Talbot in Verdi’s Giovanna D’arco as an
apprentice. He has recently returned to New York City after a year in
Germany where he was a member of the opera chorus and performed the
role of Taxi Black in One Touch of Venus with the Oper Leipzig. In New
York he has begun collaboration with the Ardea Arts and the Family
Opera Initiative on a new operatic project.
8/18/11
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