Mimi: Rachel Cobb
Musetta: Penelope Shumate
Marcello: Michael Mayes
Rodolpho:
Daniel Holmes
Schaunard: Raymond Ayers
Colline: Branch Fields
Artistic Director: Craig Fields
DANIEL HOLMES
Rodolpho / La Bohème
American tenor Daniel Holmes has been praised as a "confident and passionate Roméo" in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette with Opera North, and enthusiastically lauded as Alfredo in La Traviata, "his voice was smooth and controlled, and he sang with unpretentious confidence."
Other opera roles include Rodolfo (La Bohème) at at the Ravello Festival in Italy; Gérald (Lakmé), Rodolpho and Carlo (I Masnadieri) with Sarasota Opera; Hoffmann in Les Contes d'Hoffmann with the Tri-Cities Opera (NY); Tom in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress; Sam in Floyd's Susannah, and Rinuccio in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi. He has also covered leading roles with Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
This season he made a spectacular début with the Minneapolis Orchestra in The Three Tenors: A New Generation and triumphed in his first Don José with Mississippi Opera. He sings Rodolfo at the Ash Lawn Opera Festival this Summer, and Macduff in his company début with Dayton Opera in January 2008. He will appear as soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Lake Forest Symphony to celebrate the end of their Fiftieth season May 30, 31 and June 1 2008.
Recently, he made his concert début with The Virginia Consort as soloist in Mozart's Requiem. and sang his first Macduff with the Center City Opera Theatre of Philadelphia.
He has appeared with many other illustrious opera companies including Washington National Opera, Baltimore Opera, Annapolis Opera, Opera Vivente (MD), Washington Summer Opera (DC), Lake George Opera, Glens Falls Symphony (NY), Peabody Opera Theatre (MD), Maryland Opera Society and Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia.
Mr. Holmes earned his Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and an Artist Diploma from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He was awarded the Kern Career Grant of the Sarasota Opera in 2005, and he was the 2003 winner of the Baltimore Music Club Competition. Other honors include grants and prizes from the Rosa Ponselle Foundation, the Marie Crump Vocal Competition of the Maryland Opera Society, and the Heinz Rehfuss Competition of the Orlando Opera (FL). He is the most recent recipient of the prestigious Arleen Auger Memorial Fund's Career Development Prize.
