Dr. Thomas King

Rep

Sunset at Kentucky Lake

APSU Solo Faculty Recitals: 1988, 1990, 1991, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2013 – DePauw 2016

World, American, German and Tennessee premiers:  (As Performer in Songs, Song Cycles, Operas, as Soloist in Choral Works, as Conductor, as Composer)

• Tennessee premier (also New Mexico premier), Duet, “Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love,” Jeffrey Wood, 1989
• Tennessee premier, Composer, Song cycle, “Emily D,” Thomas King, 1990
• World premier, Song Cycle, “The Devil’s Songbook,” Roger Vogel, Austria, 1992
• American premier, Song Cycle, “The Devil’s Songbook,” Roger Vogel, 1993
• German premier, three different song cycles, Berlin, Germany, 1995
• Tennessee premier, Song Cycle, “Love Songs,” Kari Juusela, 1995
• World premier, Soloist, “Psalm 22,” Jeffrey Wood, 1995
• World premier, Aria from “Diaries,” Jeffrey Wood, 1995
• World premier, Opera, “Diaries,” Jeffrey Wood, 1996
• World premier, Soloist, “The Lord,” Jeffrey Wood, 1996
• World premier, Conductor, “The Wanderer,” Jeffrey Wood, 1996
• World premier, Song Cycle, “Epitaphs,” Jerry L. Standridge, 1998
• World premier, Opera, “Good King Wenceslas,” Richard Shephard, 1998
• World premier, Opera, “St. Nicholas,” Richard Shephard, 2000
• World premier, Song Cycle, “Till Time and Times are Done,” Jeffrey Wood, 2001
• World premier, Opera, “The Shepherd’s Play,” Richard Shephard, 2001
• Tennessee premier, Song cycle, “Of Song, Love and Death,” Jeffrey Wood, 2002
• World premier, Musical, “Memories, Milestones & Mischief,” George Mabry, 2002
• World premier, Opera, “The Birds of Bethlehem,” Richard Shephard, 2002
• World premier, Song, “The Piano,” Joseph Van Dyke, 2004
• World premier, Song, “Bread and Music,” Martin Taylor, 2004
• World premier, Song, “Winter’s Tale,” Joseph Van Dyke, 2004
• World premier, Opera, “George Sand…and Chopin?,” Persis Vehar, 2005
• World premier, Song, “Since Love Can Never Die,” Vera Fulmer, 2006
• World premier, Song, “Eloise,” Lori Laitman, 2007
• Tennessee premier, Song, “The Song of Wandering Aengus,” Jeffrey Wood, 2008
• World premier, Song, “Chanson d’Automne,” Claire McDonald, 2008
• World premier, Song Cycle, “Of snow, ice, burning sand,” Joshua Lindsay, 2009
• World premier, Song Cycle, (Rilke) “Abend” and “Lied vom Meer,” Jeffrey Wood, 2010
• World premier, Songs, Two Songs of Longfellow, Paul Byrom, 2010
• World premier, Song, “I Cried unto God with my Voice,” Libby Larsen, 2011
• World premier, Musical, “Ben and the Virtues,” Richard Gildrie/George Mabry, 2011
• World premier, Song, “White in the Moon the Long Road Lies,” Paul Byrom, 2012
• Tennessee premier, Theater piece, the Chansonnier,  “Frankenstein!,” HK Gruber, 2012
• Tennessee premier, Song, “I Cried unto God with my Voice,” Libby Larsen, 2013

Opera Companies:

• Atlanta Chamber Opera
• Central City Opera
• DeKalb, Georgia Opera
• Kaiserslautern, Germany Opera
• Kennesaw, Georgia Opera
• A Little Opera Among Friends
• Lüneburg, Germany Opera
• Memphis Opera
• Oberhausen, Germany Opera
• Phoenix Opera
• St. Louis Municipal Opera
• Santa Fe Opera

Opera Roles:

• Goro, Madama Butterfly
  

  Witch

• Franz, Tales of Hoffmann
• The Witch, Hansel and Gretel [over 100 performances]
• Trabuco, La Forza Del Destino
• Triquet, Eugene Onegin
• Borsa, Rigoletto
• Beppo, I Pagliacci
• Pedrillo, Abduction from the Seraglio
• Wenzel, The Bartered Bride
• Jaquino, Fidelio
• Ferrando, Così Fan Tutte
• Idomeneo, Idomeneo
• Kaspar, Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Spalanzani, Tales of Hoffmann
• Old Shepherd, The Shepherd’s Story
• Kaspar, King Wenceslas
• Kilian, Regina
• Veit, Undine
• Brother Francis, The Birds of Bethlehem
• Chopin, George Sand…and Chopin?
• Old Arithmetic Man, L’enfant et les sortilèges

Operetta Roles:

Wenzel

• Eisenstein, Die Fledermaus
• Rosillon, The Merry Widow
• Frederic, The Pirates of Penzance
• Pimpinelli, Paganini
• Caramello, Eine Nacht in Venedig
• Fridolin, Rose von Stambul
• Popeil, Polenblut
• Calicot, Madame Pompadour

Musical Roles:

Eisenstein

• Harold Hill, THE MUSIC MAN
• Freddy, MY FAIR LADY
• Pirelli, SWEENEY TODD
• Conferencier, CABARET
• Roscoe, FOLLIES
• Old Deuteronomy, CATS
• Robert Livingston, 1776

Oratorios as Soloist:

• Messiah – Handel
• Creation – Haydn
• Mass in b – Bach
• Requiem – Mozart
• Magnificat – Bach
• Coronation Mass – Mozart
• Mass in g – Vaughan Williams
• Laud to the Nativity – Respighi
• Rejoice in the Lamb – Britten
• Masses in G, Eb, C – Schubert
• Christmas Oratorio – Saint-Saëns
• Magnificat – Pergolesi
• Messe cum Jubilo – Duruflé
• St. Paul – Mendelssohn
• Choral Fantasy – Beethoven
• Mass in f – Bruckner
• Missa Solemnis – Cherubini
• King David – Honegger
• Seven Last Words – Dubois
• Serenade to Music – Vaughan Williams
• St. John Passion – Bach
• Crucifixion – Stainer
• Carmina Burana – Orff (as baritone)
• Stabat Mater – Pergolesi
• Frankenstein [a theatre piece] – HK Gruber
• St. Cecilia Mass – Gounod

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  I enjoy being in the audience, too!

Solo Recitals in:

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Florida
• Georgia
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• Ohio
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia
• Washington, D. C.
• Puerto Rico
• Austria
• Germany

Stage Director and Conductor:

• Annie, Get Your Gun
• Anything Goes
• Can-Can
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Li’l Abner
• My Fair Lady
• Pajama Game
• You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Performed art songs by: (English)

• Handel
• Purcell
• Arne
• Campion
• Lawes
• Elgar
• Vaughan Williams
• Ireland
• Holst
• Quilter
• Britten
• Rhian Samuel
• John Duarte
• Castelnuovo-Tedesco

(German and Austrian)

• Bach
• Haydn
• Mozart
• Beethoven
• Schubert
• Schumann
• Clara Schumann
• Mendelssohn
• Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
• Wolf
• Brahms
• Strauss
• Mahler
• Alma Mahler
• Marx
• Stolz
• Schoenberg
• Berg

(French)

• Weckerlin
• Lully
• Berlioz
• Bizet
• Massenet
• Gounod
• Duparc
• Debussy
• Satie
• Poulenc
• Fauré
• Nadia Boulanger

(Italian)

• Scarlatti
• Caldara
• Durante
• Caccini
• Pergolesi
• Torelli
• Giordano
• Bellini
• Donizetti
• Rossini
• Verdi
• Tosti
• Malipiero

(Spanish, Argentinian, Portuguese)

• Rodrigo
• Obradors
• Ginastera
• Villa-Lobos

(Czech)

• Dvorak

(Norwegian)

• Grieg

(American)

• Billings
• Foster
• Ives
• Copland
• Barber
• Bernstein
• Soulima Stravinsky
• Niles
• Duke
• Persis Vehar
• Elizabeth Vercoe
• Dinos Constantinides
• Al Benner
• Libby Larsen
• Martin Taylor
• Lori Laitman
• William Grant Still
• Claire McDonald
• Jeffrey Wood
• Kari Juusela
• Richard Hundley
• Paul Byrom