BIOGRAPHY
Hailed as “…a showstopper” (Saint Petersburg Times), bass-baritone Seán Kroll will star in two leading Gilbery & Sullivan roles in 2019: Ko-Ko in the Bronx Opera production of The Mikado and as Captain Corcoran in H.M.S. Pinafore with Delaware Valley Opera.
2018 highlights include a world premier of Theodore Christman's A Metamorphosis, at the National Opera Center, the reprise of a signature role, Marcello in La Bohème in Shreveport, Louisiana where the artist also debuted in his first Gilbert & Sullivan role as Samuel in Pirates of Penzance with productions featured in Classical Singer Magazine. The year kicked off with the role of Pasha Selim with the Bronx Opera production of The Abduction from the Seraglio.
2017 repertoire included the reprisal of another signature role, the title role of Don Giovanni with Mosaic Arts, and a premier with Prelude Opera as Wolfgang Big Bad in a Mozart pastiche entitled, The Three Little Pigs. as well as Marcello in La Bohème with Capitol Opera Laguna conducted by Dr. Stephen Tucker. Previous season highlights include the King in Opera Fayetteville's The Little Prince, and the title role of Figaro with Dell'Arte Opera in New York City under the baton of Daniela Candillari.
Previous engagements include his return tour to the People's Republic of China as soloist with the South Shore Orchestra with Troy Webdell at the podium, the roles of Achilla in Handel’s Cesare in Egitto, Ariodate in Handel’s Serse, King Rene in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, and Le Bailli in Massenet's Werther., and his New York debut in an off-Broadway production starring in Roboff & Newman’s Carmen’s Place: A Fantasy.
Kroll has sung across the United States, in Europe and Asia. Highlights include: the title role of Don Giovanni, Escamillo and Zuniga (Carmen), Colline and Marcello (La Bohème), Papageno (Magic Flute), Don Alfonso (Cosi fan Tutte), Dulcamara (L’Elisir d’Amore), Ewald (Lehár’s Springtime), Melchior (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Sam (Trouble in Tahiti) and in the realm of music theater, Cinderella’s Prince, the Mysterious Man, the Narrator and the Wolf (Sondheim’s Into the Woods).
Concert credits include opening the Galena Summer Music Festival and a gala for the Jeffrey Arnold Foundation, the Second Saturday Recital Series at the treasured landmark Quigley Chapel in Chicago with opera arias by Handel and Mozart, Schubert and Strauss lieder, Fauré chanson and classic Broadway hits; as soloist for Chicago Opera Theater (Poulenc’s Le Bestiaire), Music by the Lake Singers (Bach’s Magnificat), Opera Santa Barbara, Music Institute of Chicago (Mozart’s Requiem), Sonic Inertia (Berkhout’s Uphill).
An alumnus of the Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Santa Barbara and Saint Petersburg Opera artist development programs, Kroll graduated with a degree in Vocal Performance from Northwestern University and trained at the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy and with Bill Schuman in New York City. The artist is represented by BAM.
2018 highlights include a world premier of Theodore Christman's A Metamorphosis, at the National Opera Center, the reprise of a signature role, Marcello in La Bohème in Shreveport, Louisiana where the artist also debuted in his first Gilbert & Sullivan role as Samuel in Pirates of Penzance with productions featured in Classical Singer Magazine. The year kicked off with the role of Pasha Selim with the Bronx Opera production of The Abduction from the Seraglio.
2017 repertoire included the reprisal of another signature role, the title role of Don Giovanni with Mosaic Arts, and a premier with Prelude Opera as Wolfgang Big Bad in a Mozart pastiche entitled, The Three Little Pigs. as well as Marcello in La Bohème with Capitol Opera Laguna conducted by Dr. Stephen Tucker. Previous season highlights include the King in Opera Fayetteville's The Little Prince, and the title role of Figaro with Dell'Arte Opera in New York City under the baton of Daniela Candillari.
Previous engagements include his return tour to the People's Republic of China as soloist with the South Shore Orchestra with Troy Webdell at the podium, the roles of Achilla in Handel’s Cesare in Egitto, Ariodate in Handel’s Serse, King Rene in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, and Le Bailli in Massenet's Werther., and his New York debut in an off-Broadway production starring in Roboff & Newman’s Carmen’s Place: A Fantasy.
Kroll has sung across the United States, in Europe and Asia. Highlights include: the title role of Don Giovanni, Escamillo and Zuniga (Carmen), Colline and Marcello (La Bohème), Papageno (Magic Flute), Don Alfonso (Cosi fan Tutte), Dulcamara (L’Elisir d’Amore), Ewald (Lehár’s Springtime), Melchior (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Sam (Trouble in Tahiti) and in the realm of music theater, Cinderella’s Prince, the Mysterious Man, the Narrator and the Wolf (Sondheim’s Into the Woods).
Concert credits include opening the Galena Summer Music Festival and a gala for the Jeffrey Arnold Foundation, the Second Saturday Recital Series at the treasured landmark Quigley Chapel in Chicago with opera arias by Handel and Mozart, Schubert and Strauss lieder, Fauré chanson and classic Broadway hits; as soloist for Chicago Opera Theater (Poulenc’s Le Bestiaire), Music by the Lake Singers (Bach’s Magnificat), Opera Santa Barbara, Music Institute of Chicago (Mozart’s Requiem), Sonic Inertia (Berkhout’s Uphill).
An alumnus of the Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Santa Barbara and Saint Petersburg Opera artist development programs, Kroll graduated with a degree in Vocal Performance from Northwestern University and trained at the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy and with Bill Schuman in New York City. The artist is represented by BAM.
TRAINING & EDUCATION
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