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david pittsinger

bass-baritone
David will be making his role debut as Captain Von Trapp in THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the Ivoryton Playhouse In Ivoryton, Connecticut, this summer.  Dates are June 29-July 30, 2023.
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https://www.ivorytonplayhouse.org/


American bass-baritone David Pittsinger is renowned as a stage performer of the greatest distinction for his dramatic portrayals in the world’s major opera houses. Of his Helen Hayes Award-nominated performance as Emile de Becque in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific at the Kennedy Center, the Washington Times wrote: “His brilliant, knife-clean bass-baritone voice, impeccable enunciation—even with a French accent—and his authoritative, passionate delivery provide the perfect mix of romance, passion, and traditional masculine bravado. And his vocal delivery of ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ as well as the sorrowing ‘This Nearly Was Mine’ registers extraordinarily high on the three-hanky scale. His Emile is perhaps the definitive interpretation of this role in our time.”


Mr. Pittsinger began the 2015-2016 season with his role debut as Robert E. Lee and Edgar Ray Killen in a new production of Philip Glass’ Appomattox at Washington National Opera directed by Tazewell Thompson and conducted by Dante Santiago Anzolini. He also made role debuts last season as Fred Graham in Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the title role in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd with Portland Opera, and Reverend Hale in Robert Ward’s Pulitzer Prize-winning operatic adaptation of The Crucible at the Glimmerglass Festival. Mr. Pittsinger also returned to The Dallas Opera as the Comte des Grieux in Manon under the baton of Graeme Jenkins and to Pittsburgh Opera as Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress.


For a full biography & photos, please click here.


Opera and Concert Management: 
Matthew A. Horner, General Management, IMG Artists
mhorner@imgartists.com, +1 212 994 3514

Theater and Film Management
Encompass Arts Management
Kathy Olsen 
. kathy@encompassarts.com +1 212-439-8055.


Press and Promotions:
Cally Jamis Vennare, Principal, Cally Jamis Vennare Communications 
cjvcommunications.com, cjvennare@comcast.net, +1 412 600 5055

To learn about David’s personal commission of Arlington Sons, now on iTunes and CD Baby, click HERE.  





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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2017/04/19/american-opera-star-takes-on-americas-answer-to-opera/?utm_term=.fdb5e93b2ff8


Washington Post
‘Appomattox’:
A superb night at the opera.


DC Metro Theater Arts
‘Appomattox’ at Washington National Opera


New York Times
Glimmerglass Offers An 
Ambitious Spread 
Of Works


A Summer Blizzard At Glimmerglass




Washington Post
Sure, they can sing (opera), but can they act?




South Florida Classical Review
Don Giovanni | Top 10 Performances of 2011




ABC/Channel 7/Chicago (video)
Some Enchanted Evening with David Pittsinger




Huffington Post
Exclusive: South Pacific’s David Pittsinger Speaks Out




Bloomberg
“Big-drinking Liver” Pittsinger Keeps South Pacific On Top




FORUM Magazine
Broadway’s Best Dressed




ACCENT Magazine
What Makes A 
Watch Collector Tick? 




Broadway.com
David Pittsinger Profile




DC Theatre Scene
An enchanted chat with South Pacific star David Pittsinger



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ARLINGTON SONS

 I commissioned this work for me and my son, Richard, about our family visit to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, where my father served as a guard.  Our children were very young then and I wanted them to understand their grandfather's honor to serve   at this special memorial.  Scott Eyerly spent many hours listening to our experience there and composed this work in several different forms... for treble and bass voice with full orchestra, which debuted with Leonard Slatkin leading the Pittsburgh Symphony; for treble and bass with cello and piano, which debuted at Trinity Wall Street during the first anniversary of 9/11; and for young tenor and bass with the Army and Air Force Bands at Arlington Cemetery.
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To read more about this intriguing work, and to order from iTunes or CD Baby, please proceed to ARLINGTON SONS
www.arlingtonsons.com


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