Paul La Rosa’s “dark hued baritone [has] brought vocal glamour” (Opera News) to both sides of the Atlantic while continuing to earn critical praise for his “strong and beautiful voice.”  Recent season highlights include a role debut as the title characters in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and of Verdi’s Rigoletto, Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Lionel in Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans, Germont in Verdi’s La traviata and The Four Villains in Offenbach’s Le contes d’Hoffmann. He has performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, San Diego Opera, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and the Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña.  Mr. La Rosa is Director of the Williams Opera Workshop at Williams College where he is an Artist Associate teaching voice.  As a Director Mr. La Rosa’s productions include La bohème, die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Faust, and the Berkshire’s first complete performance of Puccini’s Il Trittico.  He has directed gala events for PanOpera, scene performances at Rutgers University Mason Gross School for the Arts, gives Masterclasses at colleges around the United States, and has been guest faculty at the Winter Harbor Music Festival in 2023 and the Mediterranean Opera Studio and Festival in Caltagirone, Sicily where he coached acting for singers and directed MOSF’s production of Rigoletto in 2022. He is a graduate of Williams College, The Juilliard School, The Juilliard Opera Center, and The Patrick G. and Shirley Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. 

We are happy to have Paul return to MOSF to direct our product of Le nozze di Figaro!