Performance Opportunities
Performance opportunities are available in many areas, including the
Lamont Opera Theatre. Voice majors also perform junior and senior recitals
in addition to voice performance class.
Faculty
Kenneth Cox, is Director of Opera at Lamont
and Chair of the Voice Department. He has sung for the past twenty
years as a leading basso with many of the international opera houses of
the world, including Paris, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Los Angeles,
Toronto, Montreal, Seattle, San Diego, Washington, Philadelphia, Dallas,
Amsterdam, Brussels, and the Opera San Carlo in Napoli. Some of his
portrayals have been that of Baron Ochs, Sarastro, Osmin, Hunding, Mephistopheles,
Arkel, King Phillip, Banquo, Timur, Don Basilio, Raimondo, and Gremin.
His New York appearances include two productions with the New York City
Opera, and his debut at Carnegie Hall, with the Pittsburgh Symphony in
Tristan
und Isolde. Several years ago, he was invited to travel to Spoleto,
Italy to sing the title role in The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi,
a work dear to the heart of Gian Carlo Menotti, in celebration of his 85th
birthday. Having sung a large number of the standard bass roles,
Ken has also enjoyed participating in some contemporary productions, including
the world premiers of Conquistador, and Salammbo, and recently,
quite theatrical stagings of Billy Budd, and Of Mice and Men.
He has also appeared with the symphony orchestras of Cleveland, Los Angeles,
Vienna, Tokyo, Jerusalem, San Francisco, Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis,
and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. His recordings
include Mahler's Eighth Symphony, with the late Robert Shaw, Herodiade
with the San Francisco Opera, and the Stein/Boulez Pelleas et Melisande,
with the Welsh National Opera, available on video cassette and laser disc.