Robert Prowse

Singer, Conductor, Teacher

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Robert Prowse is an accomplished singer, conductor and teacher of music, residing in the New York Metropolitan area. As baritone soloist, he has performed opera, oratorio, and recital. He has had a 35-year career as a university music professor, most recently conducting the choirs at New Jersey City University (NJCU) for 25 years, where he was Coordinator of Choral Studies and Classical Voice in the Music, Dance and Theatre Department. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and other degrees from Westminster Choir College and Glassboro State College.

Robert is, or has been, associated with the following musical organizations:

• Ridgewood Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
• Palisades Opera
• Opera at Florham
• Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey
• Amore Opera
• New York Opera Forum (NYOF)
• Amato Opera Theater
• Regina Opera of Brooklyn

Dr. Prowse has sung the following fully staged opera and musical theater roles, beginning with the most recent:

• The Lord Chancellor — Iolanthe Ridgewood Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
• The Count — The Marriage of Figaro Palisades Opera
• Jack Point — The Yeomen of the Guard Ridgewood Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
• Don Alhambra — The Gondoliers Ridgewood Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
• Molokov — Chess New Jersey City University
• Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B — H.M.S. Pinafore Ridgewood Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
• Lord Mountararat — Iolanthe Ridgewood Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
• The Father — Hansel and Gretel Amore Opera
• The Bishop — Les Miserables New Jersey City University
• Giovanni — Don Giovanni Palisades Opera
• Marcello — La Boh me Palisades Opera
• Giovanni — Don Giovanni Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey
• Germont — La Traviata Opera at Florham
• Noah — Noye's Fludde West Side Presbyterian Church
• Zuniga — Carmen Amato Opera Theater
• Sam — Un Ballo in Maschera Amato Opera Theater
• Prescott — Public Defender (by Seymour Barab) After Dinner Opera Company (NYC)
• The Baron — La Traviata (Regina Opera)
• Valentin — Faust (Opera Pro Voce)
• Count Ceprano — Rigoletto (Regina Opera)
• Herr Buff — The Impresario New York Metro Vocal Arts Ensemble
• Frank — Die Fledermaus New York Metro Vocal Arts Ensemble
• Guglielmo — Così fan tutte (Jade Opera)
• The Count — Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera Avanti)
• The Chairman — The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Cole Porter — Red, Hot and Cole
• Sir Joseph Porter — H.M.S. Pinafore
• Billy Bigelow — Carousel
• The Husband — Les Mamelles de Tiresias
• The Judge — Trial by Jury
• The Boatswain — H.M.S. Pinafore
• The Usher — Trial by Jury
• Umberto — La Serva Padrona
• Melchior — Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Buckminster Fuller — Godspell
• Captain von Trapp — The Sound of Music
• Judd Fry — Oklahoma

In addition, Dr. Prowse has sung the following in concert with the New York Opera Forum , in the original languages, again beginning with the most recent:

• Assur — Semiramide
• Oroveso — Norma
• Don Bartolo — The Barber of Seville
• Belcore — L'Elisir d'amore
• Nottingham — Roberto Devereux
• Albert — Werther
• Cesare — Giulio Cesare
• Der Wanderer — Siegfried
• Carlo Gerard — Andrea Chenier
• Renato — Un Ballo in Maschera
• Rodrigo — Don Carlo
• Barnaba — La Gioconda
• The Villains — Tales of Hoffmann
• Don Alfonso — Così fan Tutte
• Baron Scarpia — Tosca
• Enrico — Lucia di Lammermoor
• Marcello — La Bohème
• Wotan — Das Rheingold
• Germont — La Traviata
• Buff — The Impresario
• Valentin — Faust
• Wotan — Die Walküre
• Giovanni — Don Giovanni
• Pizarro — Fidelio
• Papageno — Die Zauberflöte
• Dandini — La Cenerentola
• Frank — Die Fledermaus

These are some oratorio roles that are in Dr. Prowse's repertory:

• Mendelssohn — Elijah (title role)
• Handel — Messiah
• Bach — St. Matthew Passion (Jesus)
• Haydn — Creation
• Handel — Samson (Manoah and Haraphah)
• Haydn — The Seasons
• Brahms — Ein Deutsches Requiem
• Fauré — Requiem