Rod Gilfry (Count Danilo Danilowitsch)
Baritone – Claremont, California

Highlights: Created the role of Stanley Kowalski in 1998 premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire (San Francisco) televised nationwide; created the role of Nathan Landau in Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice (Covent Garden, Washington National Opera); created the role of Edward Gaines in Margaret Garner opposite Denyce Graves (Michigan Opera Theatre, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia); TDO credits include the tiles roles in Billy Budd and Don Giovanni as well as leading roles in The Barber of Seville and Die Fledermaus; Lionel in Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans (San Francisco); Barcelona’s Liceu performing his one-man show, My Heart is So Full of You; the title role in Pelléas et Mélisande (Zürich Opera); Prospero in The Tempest (Santa Fe); Papageno at Washington National Opera; the role of de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Plácido Domingo (Valencia, Spain); Tsar Nicholas II in the world premiere of Nicholas & Alexandra; Danilo in The Merry Widow and Prince Paul in Offenbach’s Le Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein (Los Angeles Opera); The Most Happy Fella at the 2007 Ravinia Festival.

After The Merry Widow: the Proms Concerts in London, the Saito-Kinen Festival in Japan, and performances with Opera Pacific, Zürich Opera and Netherlands Opera.