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Welcome to My World
Featuring :
Mark Steven Doss, bass-baritone
Ken Smith, piano
Stas Venglevski, accordion
About Mark
Grammy Award winner, Mark S. Doss has sung with the major orchestras of San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Houston and Toronto, while additionally performing 102 roles with more than 60 major opera companies around the world, including Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the Vienna State Opera, London’s Royal Opera Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Canadian Opera Company.
The bass-baritone’s most recent engagements include the lead role of Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov in Leoš Janáček’s From the House of the Dead at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, a reprise of William Daley in Kris Defoort’s The Time of Our Singing with the Concert and Theatre house in St. Gallen, Switzerland, the bass-baritone soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at Teatro La Fenice on the Piazza San Marco in Venice, telecast all over the world, and Verdi arias at a Special Gala in New York City. This past season also saw Mr. Doss’s Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center debut with the New York Philharmonic in two performances of Here I Stand: Paul Robeson’s 125th Birthday Celebration. Two months earlier, he gave a solo concert performance with New York’s Greenwich Village Orchestra to a full house and a standing ovation. In a span of just over eleven months he sang the bass-baritone part in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Minnesota Orchestra, The Davenport Symphony, The Erie Philharmonic, the Fairfax Symphony, and the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
Upcoming Engagements
- Germont (La Traviata) : Welsh National Opera
- Zurga (The Pearl Fishers) : Antwerp & Ghent
- Father (Eurydice) : Boston Lyric Opera
- Jochanaan (Salome) : Houston Symphony
events
Recent Engagements
- Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov : From the House of the Dead (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma)
- William Daley : he Time of Our Singing (St. Gallen, Switzerland & La Monnaie, Brussels)
- Beethoven’s 9th Symphony : Teatro La Fenice (Venice, telecast worldwide)
- Verdi Arias : From the House of the Dead (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma)
- Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov : From the House of the Dead (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma)
testimonials
Doss brought his considerable dark bass-baritone to the role rendering a top A-flat at the end of his ‘O prodi miei…’ cabaletta, all the more exciting.