Morris D. Robinson
Morris D. Robinson is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the most interesting and sought after basses of his generation.
This season, Mr. Robinson returns to Florida Grand Opera to open the season as Ramfis in Aida, and to the Met as Sarastro in Die Zauberfl�te (both in the original production and in a new children's English version). A recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Mr. Robinson made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2002 in their production of Fidelio. He has since appeared as Sarastro and as the King in Aida, roles in Nabucco (in the House and in the Parks), Tannh�user, and the new productions of Les Troyens, Die Zauberfl�te, and Salome. Other past opera engagements have included Sparafucile in Rigoletto at the Florida Grand Opera, the King at the Opera Company of Philadelphia; Sparafucile, the Blind Ballad Singer in Gloriana, and Pluto in Hippolytus and Aricia at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Commendatore in Don Giovanni, the Bonze in Madama Butterfly, and the King at the Boston Lyric Opera; the Bonze at the Seattle Opera; Un Songe in Dardanus at the Wolf Trap Opera; and Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, and Bluebeard in Bluebeard's Castle at the Boston University Opera Institute.
This past summer Mr. Robison made his debuts at the Tanglewood Festival in as Commendatore in a concert version of Don Giovanni with James Levine, the Cincinnati May Festival as Osmin in a concert performance of Die Entf�hrung aus dem Serail with James Conlon, and the Verbier Festival in a concert version of Simon Boccanegra with Levine. This season, he appears in recital at Spivey Hall in Atlanta and at the Savannah Music Festival. Other concert engagements have included Verdi's Requiem at the Aspen Music Festival and with the Ft. Worth Symphony, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Baltimore Symphony and National Symphony Orchestra (at Wolf Trap), Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 with the New England String Ensemble in Boston's Jordan Hall, Mozart's Requiem and Handel's Messiah with the New Choral Society of Central Westchester, and Haydn's The Creation with the Stamford Symphony Orchestra. He made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble in a performance of Stravinsky's Renard.
In July 2005, Mr. Robinson became an exclusive recording artist to Decca and his first album is due for release in Spring 2007.
An Atlanta native, Mr. Robinson is a graduate of The Citadel and received his musical training from the Boston University Opera Institute.
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