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Filipino-American baritone Roberto Perlas Gomez debuted with Opera San José this year as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia. His subsequent roles with the company include the baritone lead of Drosselmeire in the world premiere of Tale of the Nutcracker, Escamillo in Carmen, and as the elder Germont in La Traviata. He will also perform Germont at the Mendocino Festival in July 2000. Mr Gomez completed his return to Los Angeles Opera in the role of Lorek in Fedora with Placido Domingo and Benoit/Alcindoro in the company's student matinees of La Boheme. He recently performed his first Don Giovanni for the Pasadena Lyric Opera to great critical acclaim. Mr. Gomez has performed regularly with San Diego Opera appearing in Turandot and Carmen, as well as Tosca, Rusalka, Madama Butterfly and The Barber of Seville. He was a member of SDO's outreach ensemble and toured as the company's Artist-in-Residence through four seasons. |
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| Among Mr. Gomez' many appearances in Southern California are Germanno in La scala di seta and Allazim in Zaide at the Summer Nights at the Ford Festival, Scarpia in Tosca for the L.A. Music Theater Company, Figaro and Count Almaviva in two recent productions of the Marriage of Figaro, and Silvio in Pagliacci at the Redlands Bowl. He has sung the role of Frank in Sacramento Opera's Die Fledermaus, and has portrayed Marcello in La Boheme with the Shanghai Opera. In December of 1995 Mr Gomez was in Manila to creat the title role of Rizal in a world premiere celebrating the centennial of the Philippine national hero. | |||||
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