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David Pershall, “A Day in the Life of a Metropolitan Opera Artist” (September 20)
September 20, 2017 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
David Pershall
Baritone
A Day in the Life of a Metropolitan Opera Artist
David Pershall returns to Greensboro Opera in the title role in The Barber of Seville January 12 & 14, 2018 after appearing as the Toreador, Escamillo, in Greensboro Opera’s Carmen last January.
Featured as one of opera’s 25 Rising Stars in Opera News, Mr. Pershall has been seen at some of the world’s foremost theaters including the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Washington National Opera. He debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 2015 as Figaro in The Barber of Seville, which he quickly followed with performances in 2016 as Schaunard in La Bohème, and Lord Cecil in Maria Stuarda. David has been seen at the Vienna State Opera as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Sebastian in The Tempest, and Lescaut in Manon Lescaut. He made his role debut as Rodrigo in Don Carlos with Opera Burg Gars in 2015 and was acclaimed as a “swashbuckling Rodrigo” in NÖN, as well as a “cultured singing, young, attractive Posa” in Der Neue Merker. He made his role debut as Lord Nottingham in Roberto Devereux at Carnegie Hall for which he was hailed as “passionate and resonant” by The New York Times.
He has won many prestigious vocal competitions including The 2016 George London Award sponsored by the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation, 1st Prize in the Marcello Giordani Foundation International Vocal Competition, 1st Prize in the New Jersey Verismo Competition, 1st Prize in the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation Competition, 1st Prize in the Gerda Lissner Foundation, 1st Prize in the Connecticut Opera Guild Competition, 1st Prize in the Hugo Kauder Competition for Voice, the Presser Music Foundation Award, and the Thomas Stewart Award for Vocal Excellence.
David is a graduate of the Merola Opera program at San Francisco Opera and the Virginia Opera Resident Artist program. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Baylor University, as well as a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma from Yale School of Music.