Tenors Cook, Dixon & Young

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RODRICK DIXONRodrick Dixon, “voice has a quality like polished steel under tension- flexible and ringingly resonant.” (Chicago Tribune). He has appeared on stage and in concert in a variety of dramatic roles that encompass the worlds of Opera, Oratorio, Concert, Music Theater and Television. Rodrick Dixon’s television credits include PBS specials Cook Dixon & Young Volume One, the Washington Opera Gala at Constitution Hall, The Mark Twain Awards honoring Whoopi Goldberg at The Kennedy Center, My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs at City Center, Three Mo’ Tenors at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, The Jerry Lewis Telethon (2002-2003), Marshall Fields’ Christmas commercials, A Christmas Glory on FOX channel 9and TVOne’s “Tis The Season” Holiday special. He appeared on the Tony Awards as a part of the hit Broadway musical Ragtime, as well as NBC’s Today Show, Good Morning America, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Chicago Tonight and the Tavis Smiley Show.Rodrick Dixon made his LA OPERA debut as Walther von der Vogelweide in Wagner’s TANNHÄUSER. He also joined the LA Opera Orchestra as soloist in two special concerts featuring the music of composers Korngold's Die Tote Stadt and Schuloff's Die Flammen which is part of the LA OPERA’S Recovered Voices Project, dedicated to performing music of composers affected by the Holocaust.Mr. Dixon has appeared at Cincinnati May Festival (The Bells, Carmina Burana under Maestro James Conlon) He appeared in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Rossini Gala (Ravinia Festival), Millennium Park Opening with Chicago Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Los Angeles Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Dayton Symphony, Denver Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Elgin Symphony, Rackham Symphony Chorus (Handel’s Messiah) and Vail Music Festival (Beethoven 9th under Marin Alsop).He made his Michigan Opera Theater and TODI music festival debut as Tonio in LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Hoffman in Portland Opera’s TALES OF HOFFMAN, Prince in Columbus Opera’s world premiere of VANQUI, Sportin’ Life in Virginia Opera’s PORGY AND BESS, one of the four lovers in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s DON QUICHOTE, the Judge in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s IL TROVATORE, Prince in the world premiere of Lyric Opera Center for American Artists’ THE SONG OF MAJNUN, Don Ottavio and Zuniga in the Lyric Center productions of DON GIOVANNI and LA TRAGEDIE DE CARMEN.Mr. Dixon earned rave reviews for his Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert broadcast honoring Roland Hayes on WFMT-FM Chicago. He was tenor soloist for the Do-it- yourself-Messiah at Orchestra Hall and Lyric Opera of Chicago and completed a national Community Concerts recital tour with his wife, soprano Alfreda Burke in 2001. Music Theater credits include Ragtime on Broadway; Showboat at the Auditorium Theater, Chicago Pops concerts at Grant Park Music Festival, the Chicago Pops Orchestra at the Rosemont Theater and Cincinnati Pops with Erich Kunzel.His CD and DVD recordings include the PBS Great Performances Cook Dixon & Young Volume One (2005), Follow That Star Christmas CD by Bishop T.D. Jakes and PBS Three Mo’Tenors CD and DVD.In 2007 he is returning to the May Festival (Rossini Stabat Mater under the baton of James Conlon), TODI Music Festival as Lenski (EUGENE ONEGIN); Christmas concerts of “Too Hot To Handel” at Detroit Opera House and Auditorium Theatre under the baton of Suzanne Acton as well as tour and perform with The Tenors…Cook, Dixon & Young.In August 2007 Mr. Dixon will make his film debut in a leading role of a 30-minute short film entitled, ”Mio Sogno” (My Dream), directed by Philadelphia filmmaker, Frantz T. Excellent and co-produced by Brian R. Chacon. This empowering story tells of a fictitious first African-descent dramatic-tenor to sing the role of Giuseppe Verdi's powerful opera, ”Otello” at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera.In 2008 Mr. Dixon returns to the LA OPERA stage to star as Der Zwerg in the LA OPERA’s production of Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg. Visit www.tenorroddixon.com .