Bass solo from "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", arranged by Adolphus Hailstork and performed by The Texas Voices.

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

The Act II Melodram und Duett ("Nur hurtig fort, nur frisch gegraben") from Beethoven's opera Fidelio.  Michael Chadwick as Rocco, Natalie Miller as Leonore.  Empire Opera concert performance 2007.

Fidelio Melodram Und Duett

Michael Chadwick’s powerful bass has been featured in various operatic roles including Rocco in Fidelio, Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni, Daniel Webster in The Mother of Us All, Colline in La bohème, Betto in Gianni Schicchi, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, the title character in Inessa Zaretsky’s The Man in the Long Black Coat, and Judge Thatcher in Tom Sawyer. Concert solo credits include Händel’s Messiah, Fauré’s Requiem, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, among many others.

Michael spent decades singing professionally in opera and oratorio choruses around the U.S. and abroad including the Dallas Opera, Dallas Symphonic Choir, the Opera Festival of New Jersey, the Spoleto Festival USA and Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, Princeton Pro Musica, Fort Worth Opera, Princeton Opera, and many others. Additional credits include singing on the composer’s demo for the 2013 Disney feature film Frozen, performing the roles of Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar, Cléante in Le malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), Mendel in Falsettos, Chief Bromden in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ham in Two by Two, Mortimer in The Fantasticks, Cox in Cox and Box, and Eddie/Dr. Scott in The Rocky Horror Show. Michael attended Westminster Choir College and received his B.A. in Liberal Arts from its parent, Rider University. During his time singing with the Westminster Symphonic Choir he performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the New Jersey Symphony.

Michael has been the stage director for dozens of operatic productions including Falstaff, La Cenerentola, Faust, Don Giovanni, L’Elisir d’Amore, Gianni Schicchi,  Le nozze di Figaro, Carmen, Don Pasquale, Le Villi, The Old Maid and the Thief, and Trouble in Tahiti.  Outside of his vocal work Michael is a multiple award-winning photographer, and provides supertitles for opera companies all around the world.

Michael Chadwick, Bass