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Dale Dreyfoos

Dale Dreyfoos (Professor of Opera/Music Theater at Arizona State University and Resident Stage Director for Lyric Opera Theatre) has had a multi-faceted career as a Stage Director, Character Tenor, Actor, Educator, and Arts Administrator. As a Stage Director, Mr. Dreyfoos has directed productions of The Marriage Of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Cosi Fan Tutte, L'Elisir D" Amore, HMS Pinafore, The Secret Garden, The Turn Of The Screw, Dido and Aeneas, Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Coronation of Poppea, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, Nunsense, Susannah, La Serva Padrona, Hansel and Gretel, Don Pasquale, The Impresario, Riders to the Sea, The Barber of Seville, The Daughter of the Regiment, Albert Herring, Gallantry, Die Fledermaus, Cinderella, and the world premiere of The Ransom of Red Chief for such companies as Opera Carolina, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston Opera Company, Birmingham Civic Opera, the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, Arizona Opera Education Tour, Milton Center Series, and Arizona State University's Lyric Opera Theater. He has also served as an Assistant Director for productions of La Cenerentola, The Mikado, Lucia Di Lammermoor, La Boheme, and Don Pasquale with the Lyric Opera of Chicago Center for American Artists, Opera Carolina, Des Moines Metro Opera, Birmingham Civic Opera and the Mississippi Opera.

Mr. Dreyfoos began his performing career at the age of 10 as the Boy Soprano soloist with the Atlanta Boy Choir, during which time he appeared as a soloist in Mozart's Vesperae Solennes De Confessore with Robert Shaw & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, as well as appearing in the French, Spanish, and Moroccan premieres of Benjamin Britten's chamber opera The Golden Vanity. Since that time, Mr. Dreyfoos has made a specialty of appearing in a wide variety of character roles including Vespone in La Serva Padrona, Ambrogio in Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, Goro in Madama Butterfly, Frosch & Dr. Blind in Die Fledermaus, Senex in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Henry in The Fantasticks, Herr Schultz in Cabaret, King Sextimus in Once Upon a Mattress, Moonface Martin in Anything Goes, Frisellino in Le Pescatrice, Njegus in The Merry Widow, Mozart in A Visit With Amadeus, Ben in The Telephone, the Duchess of Krackenthorp in La Fille Du Regiment, Edna in Bye, Bye, Birdie, and Queen Elizabeth II in HMS Pinafore with such companies as the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Arizona Opera, Opera Carolina, Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, Birmingham Civic Opera, Mississippi Opera, Newberry Opera, Charleston Opera Company, Shakespeare Sedona and ASU's Lyric Opera Theatre. He has also appeared as the "Bargain Countertenor soloist" in P.D.Q. Bach's The Seasons with the Alabama Symphony under the direction of Peter Schickele.

He is also the author of two highly acclaimed educational music dramas, A Visit with Amadeus and A Visit with Mr. & Mrs. Bach, which have received over 2,000 performances throughout the eastern United States.