Rodell Rosel

Rodell Rosel appears as the Dancing Master in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at HGO this spring. He sang Goro in HGO’s fall production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and Jason Ching in the recent HGOco commission Courtside, part of Song of Houston, East + West. Mr. Rosel made his HGO debut in 2008 as Squeak in Britten’s Billy Budd. A native of Manila, Philippines, he has appeared as the Dancing Master in Ariadne auf Naxos at Wolf Trap Opera. The tenor made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Valzacchi in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and returned there as Nathanaël in Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. He recently worked with HGO Music Director Patrick Summers creating the role of Ong Chi Seng in The Letter by Paul Moravec at the Santa Fe Opera. He recently appeared as Monostatos in Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Florentine Opera), and at Wolf Trap Opera in productions of Musto’s Bastianello and Bolcom’s Lucrezia. His other Wolf Trap credits include Cornaccio in Musto’s Volpone and the Governor in Bernstein’s Candide. Mr. Rosel was a grand prize winner of the 2005 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and is an alumnus of the Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago.