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Alburtt Rhodes is a native of
Virginia and holds music degrees from Millikin and Boston
Universities. He has studied with former Metropolitan Opera
Soprano, Marilyn Cotlow and Linda Bonds-Perry of Paris, France
and New York City. In Europe, Mr. Rhodes has performed at the
Teatro Del Opera di Roma in the World Premiere of The Civil
WarS V; which was repeated at the Netherlands Opera;
Comunale di Stia in Italy, as the Roman Hero, ‘Orazio’ in
Muzio Scevola by Handel; and the Nottingha+m Music Theatre
in England in the British Premiere of The Egg by Menotti
in the leading tenor role of ‘St. Simeon’. Mr. Rhodes made his
Swiss debut at the Stadttheater Biel, in Biel, Switzerland in
the role of ‘Alfredo’ in sixteen performances of Verdi’s La
Traviata.. In the United States, Mr. Rhodes was a member of
World Premiere Cast of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS that
opened the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Recently, Mr.
Rhodes sang the roles of Le Chevalier Des Grieux in Manon
by Massenet, and Eisenstein in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus
for Opera at Rutgers in Manhattan, and he sang the high tenor
role of Ed Anderson in the a production of Strange Fruit, (Golden
Fleece, Ltd.) Currently, Mr. Rhodes is a member of the voice
faculty of the Brooklyn Music School where he is also the Music
Chair and a member of the voice faculty at the Henry Street
Music School at the Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan. Mr. Rhodes
is a member of the Thomas Music Study Club of the National
Association of Negro Musicians and he is the Minister of Music
at the St. Augustine Presbyterian Church in the Bronx. He can
be heard on a recently released CD entitled “A Tenor’s
Testament”.
Prior to beginning his career in
music, Mr. Rhodes served as a Humanitarian writer and Yeoman for
four years in the United States Navy.