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Back to Biographies Ding Gao Bass-baritone Ding Gao's current season includes Bonze in Puccini's Madama Butterfly with Houston Grand Opera, Verdi's Requiem with the Washington Oratorio Society, Don Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville with the Washington International Opera, as well as Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen and Monterone in Verdi's Rigoletto with the New York City Opera. In 1999/2000 he will sing a gala opera concert in Hong Kong, perform Rossini's Stabat Mater with the Monmouth Civic Chorus, and make his Seattle Opera debut as Nilakantha in Delibes' Lakmé. Highlights of the 1997-98 season included engagements with New York City Opera as Escamillo in Carmen and Colline in Puccini's La bohème on the NYCO tour, with the Austin Lyric Opera as the Speaker in Mozart's The Magic Flute, and with the Sarasota Opera as Silva in Verdi's Ernani. Mr. Gao has sung Monterone with both Michigan Opera Theater and New York City Opera, and Timur in Puccini's Turandot with Italy's Teatro Lirico D'Europa. He has also appeared with the Edmonton and Manitoba operas, Connecticut Grand Opera, the Opera Company of El Paso, Washington International Opera, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Florida Philharmonic, the Yale Symphony, the Greenwich (Connecticut) Symphony, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Hartford Chorale, and the El Paso Chorale. Ding Gao made his New York City Opera debut in the 1994-95 season, singing Colline in La bohème, Angelotti in Puccini's Tosca, and the Speaker in The Magic Flute. In 1995, he was a winner of the Sullivan Foundation Competition and first-prize winner in the Fourth Altamura/Enrico Caruso International Voice Competition. He holds a Performance Certificate from Yale University, where he portrayed Lord Sidney in the first United States original language production of Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims and sang Verdi's Requiem with the Yale Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eleazar de Carvalho. A United States resident, Ding Gao lives in New York City. These are his first performances with the Boston Pops Orchestra. |