Robert Prowse

Singer, Conductor, Teacher

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Robert Prowse is an accomplished singer, conductor and teacher of music, residing in the New York Metropolitan area. As baritone soloist, he has performed opera, oratorio, and recital. He is a soloist/section leader at West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, NJ, and he conducts the choirs at New Jersey City University (NJCU), where he is Coordinator of Choral Studies in the Department of Music, Dance and Theatre

Robert is, or has been, associated with the following musical organizations:

• New York Metro Vocal Arts Ensemble (NYMVAE)
• Amato Opera Theater
• New York Opera Forum (NYOF)
• Hawthorne Symphony
• Regina Opera of Brooklyn

Mr. Prowse has sung the following fully staged opera and musical theater roles, beginning with the most recent:

• Noah — Noye's Fludde West Side Presbyterian Church
• Zuniga — Carmen Amato Opera Theater
• Sam — Un Ballo in Maschera Amato Opera Theater
• Prescott — Public Defender (by Seymour Barab) After Dinner Opera Company (NYC)
• The Baron — La Traviata (Regina Opera)
• Valentin — Faust (Opera Pro Voce)
• Count Ceprano — Rigoletto (Regina Opera)
• Herr Buff — The Impresario (NYMVAE)
• Frank — Die Fledermaus (NYMVAE)
• Guglielmo — Così fan tutte (Jade Opera)
• The Count — Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera Avanti)
• The Chairman — The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Cole Porter — Red, Hot and Cole
• Sir Joseph Porter — H.M.S. Pinafore
• Billy Bigelow — Carousel
• The Husband — Les Mamelles de Tiresias
• The Judge — Trial by Jury
• The Boatswain — H.M.S. Pinafore
• The Usher — Trial by Jury
• Umberto — La Serva Padrona
• Melchior — Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Buckminster Fuller — Godspell
• Captain von Trapp — The Sound of Music
• Judd Fry — Oklahoma

In addition, Mr. Prowse has sung the following in concert with the New York Opera Forum , in the original languages, again beginning with the most recent:

• Albert — Werther
• Cesare — Giulio Cesare
• Der Wanderer — Siegfried
• Carlo Gerard — Andrea Chenier
• Renato — Un Ballo in Maschera
• Rodrigo — Don Carlo
• Barnaba — La Gioconda
• The Villains — Tales of Hoffmann
• Don Alfonso — Così fan Tutte
• Baron Scarpia — Tosca
• Enrico — Lucia di Lammermoor
• Marcello — La Bohème
• Wotan — Das Rheingold
• Germont — La Traviata
• Buff — The Impresario
• Valentin — Faust
• Wotan — Die Walküre
• Belcore — L'Elisir d'amore
• Giovanni — Don Giovanni
• Pizarro — Fidelio
• Papageno — Die Zauberflöte
• Dandini — La Cenerentola
• Frank — Die Fledermaus

These are some oratorio roles that are in Mr. Prowse's repertory:

• Mendelssohn — Elijah (title role)
• Handel — Messiah
• Bach — St. Matthew Passion (Jesus)
• Haydn — Creation
• Handel — Samson (Manoah and Haraphah)
• Haydn — The Seasons
• Brahms — Ein Deutsches Requiem
• Fauré — Requiem