Rod Gilfry has performed in all the world's music capitals, including Vienna, Paris, London, Munich, Zurich, Milan, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Best-known as an opera singer, he is equally acclaimed as a recitalist and concert artist. He also has extensive experience as a Master of Ceremonies and as a cabaret artist. This Grammy-nominated singer’s discography includes 23 audio and video recordings, as well as the DVD and CD of his one-man show My Heart is So Full of You. His radio show, Opera Notes on Air, aired on K-Mozart 105.1 FM in Los Angeles for over three years. With a 40-role repertoire, Mr. Gilfry sings music from the Baroque to that composed expressly for him. He was brought to worldwide attention when he created the role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1998 premiere of André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire with the San Francisco Opera. In 2006, he created his 5th world premiere role as Jack London in the new opera Every Man Jack by composer Libby Larsen. Recent appearances included Lionel in the San Francisco Opera production of Tchaikovsky’s Joan of Arc, Prospero in the American premiere of Thomas Ades’ The Tempest at the Santa Fe Opera, and as Nathan in the American premiere of Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice in Washington D.C, a role he created in London in 2002. Last year he sang De Guiche in Alfano’s Cyrano in Valencia, Spain, opposite Placido Domingo, and appeared at the Los Angeles Opera as Count Danilo in Lehar’s operetta The Merry Widow. He also adjudicated the first annual José Iturbi Competition in Los Angeles, and appeared as Joe in Loesser’s musical The Most Happy Fella at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. He was host and special guest artist in Concert Under the Stars at Cal State University Fullerton and taught a master class for the Classical Singer’s Association. The 2007/08 season saw Mr. Gilfry as baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zürich, Danilo in the Dallas Opera production of The Merry Widow, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at Opera Pacific in Costa Mesa, California, a recital at the Barclay Theater in Irvine, California, an appearance in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Gala in Zankel Hall at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and as Robert Storch in the Zürich Opera production of R. Strauss’ Intermezzo. He then sang the title role in Messiaen’s monumental work Saint François d’Assise in Amsterdam, sang Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus in a five-city tour in Japan under the baton of Seiji Ozawa, and concluded the 2007/08 season with a highly acclaimed concert performance of Saint François d’Assise at the BBC Proms in London, which was broadcast live. The 2008/09 season sees Mr. Gilfry in Munich for the one-act Bernstein opera Trouble in Tahiti, an all-Bernstein concert with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham in Zankel Hall at New York’s Carnegie Hall, recitals in the California cities of Santa Monica, Claremont, La Jolla, San Luis Obispo and Sonoma, as well as Sedona, Arizona. In March he will sing Mendelssohn’s Elijah in NOtre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, and the role of Captain Balstrode in Britten’s Peter Grimes with the San Diego Opera. He concludes the season as Lancelot in Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. This Fall he proudly joined the faculty of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor of Vocal Arts, where he teaches between out of town engagements.