Rodrick Dixon

Rodrick Dixon is a leading American dramatic tenor, whose range, musicianship and dramatic intensity have seen him engaged by prominent theatres and orchestras throughout the United States. Notable operatic engagements include: Der Zwerg at Los Angeles Opera; Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhauser) at Michigan Opera Theater; Otello with Opera Southwest; Erik (Die fliegender Holländer) with RAI Torino and the St Louis Symphony; Duca di Mantova for Cincinnati Opera; Hoffmann at Portland Opera; the Prince (Vanqui) for Opera Columbus (world première), and Sportin’ Life (Porgy & Bess) at Virginia Opera. Notable concert engagements include: Orff Carmina Burana, Stravinsky Oedipus Rex, Janacek Glagolitic Mass, Mahler Das klagende Lied, Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Rachmaninoff The Bells, Rossini Stabat Mater and Nathaniel Dett The Ordering of Moses at the Cincinnati May Festival; Oedipus Rex (cond. Esa-Pekka Salonen, dir. Peter Sellars) with the LA Philharmonic, The Bells and Mahler Das klagende Lied at the Ravinnia Festival; Sportin’ Life with the Cleveland Orchestra; Bernstein Mass! for the Choral Arts Society of Music at the Kennedy Center; Beethoven Symphony No.9 and Lokumbe Healing Tones and One Land, One River, One People with the Philadelphia Orchestra (cond. Yannick Nézet Séguin); and The Ordering of Moses at the Cincinnati May Festival, and Beethoven Symphony No.9 (American Symphony Orchestra) at Carnegie Hall. 2021-2022 highlights include: Beethoven Missa Solemnis with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet Séguin, The Ordering of Moses with the City of Birmingham Symphony and his first contract with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. 2022-2023 highlights include: the Missa solemnis with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Yannick Nézet Séguin, Hannibal Lokumbe The Jonah People with the Nashville Symphony (world premiere), The Ordering of Moses at the Cincinnati May Festival with Marin Alsop, The Death of Klinghoffer (Molqi) at the Concertgebouw, under the baton of John Adams, To Awaken the Sleeper with the Baltimore Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde at the Aspen Festival, both with James Conlon. Season 2023-2024 highlight include: Froh (Das Rheingold) at Covent Garden and Der Zwerg at Los Angeles Opera.

 

Mr. Dixon’s extensive television credits include: Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party VH1 (2017); Freedom Awards National Civil Rights Museum (2017);  Noel, Noel Christmas Show Fox 13 (2017); Variety Children’s Charity TV show honoring CEO Julia Morley of Miss World in London (2016);  Miss World Pageant in Washington, D.C. at the MGM (2016);  Ordos, China (2012);  An Evening with Vernon Jordan/HistoryMakers WETA, PBS (2014); the Variety Children’s Charity telethon in Des Moines, Iowa (2012 – present); The US Air Force 60th Anniversary Musical Celebration  (2007); Cook, Dixon & Young Vol. 1 PBS Great Performances (2005); Washington Opera Gala at Constitution Hall (2003);  The Mark Twain Awards Honoring Whoopi Goldberg at Kennedy Center (2002);  Three Mo’ Tenors PBS Great Performances (2001) and My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs at City Center (2000). Other TV appearances include: The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS/NPR (2006); The Jerry Lewis Telethon (2002-2003); Marshall Field’s Christmas Commercials (2002); TV One’s Christmas Specials (2006/07); WGN’s A Christmas Glory (2003 and 2006); The Tony Awards (1998); NBC’s Today Show; Good Morning America; The Rosie O’Donnell Show (2002); and The Wayne Brady Show.

Rodrick Dixon’s musical theater and other theatrical concert credits include the original cast of Ragtime on Broadway/Chicago/Toronto, Show Boat at the Auditorium Theatre, Pops Concerts at Grant Park Music Festival, Chicagoland Pops Orchestra at the Rosemont Theater with Michael Feinstein, The Cincinnati Pops with Erich Kunzel and annual Christmas concerts of Too Hot To Handel at the Detroit Opera House and the Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. The show made its Memphis Orpheum Theatre debut April 21^st and 22^nd in 2018.

Recordings include (Sony/BMG), PBS Great Performances Cook, Dixon & Young Volume One released in (2005), Follow That Star Christmas CD (2003), Liam Lawton’s Sacred Land (2006) and Rodrick Dixon Live in Concert (2008) and a Christmas album with the Cincinnati Pops.

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