{"id":5810,"date":"2018-08-15T17:18:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T17:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=5810"},"modified":"2018-08-17T22:46:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T22:46:46","slug":"2018-third-place-audience-choice-award-dorian-mccall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=5810","title":{"rendered":"2018 Third Place Audience Choice Award : Dorian McCall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recipient of an Anonymous Award<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bass-baritone, DORIAN McCALL, has been described as a very compelling singing actor with a warm, even baritone and a rich and flexible voice, recognized as having great style, musically and physically, on stage and is a 2018 MONC Encouragement Award recipient, 2018 Naftzger Vocal Division winner, 2017 Career Bridges Encouragement Grant recipient as well as 2nd alternate to represent the Texoma region at the 2018 NATSAA competition.\u00a0 In the current season, Mr. McCall is slated to debut with the Painted Sky Opera as Angelotti in Tosca, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with OU Opera, and Mozart\u2019s Figaro with the Aquilon Music Festival. He will also be featured as a concert soloist for Monteverdi\u2019s Selva morale e spiritual of 1640 with OU\u2019s Collegium Musicum, Haydn\u2019s Lord Nelson Mass and Mozart\u2019s Vesperae Solemnes with the Oklahoma Master Chorale, Handel\u2019s Messiah with Lamar University Choirs, Saint-Sa\u00ebns\u2019 Christmas Oratorio with Westminster Orchestra, and Verdi\u2019s Requiem with the Marvin Orchestra.\u00a0 In the 16\/17 season, Dorian debuted as the titular characters in Mozart\u2019s Le nozze di Figaro at the Blooming Voce Opera Workshop, Gianni Schicchi and covered Don Pasquale with OU Opera. He also debuted as Polyphemus in Handel\u2019s Acis and Galatea. He was also the Bass-baritone soloist for Bach\u2019s BWV 211 with the Enid Symphony and Schumann\u2019s Requiem with the Symphony of Southeast Texas.\u00a0 In the 15\/16 season, Dorian debuted as Reginald Bunthorne in Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s Patience with Cimarron Opera, Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin, and Booker T. Washington, while covering Coalhouse, in Terrence McNally\u2019s Ragtime with the University of Oklahoma\u2019s respective theatres. He was the Bass-baritone soloist for Saint-Sa\u00ebns\u2019 Christmas Oratorio and Bach\u2019s St. John\u2019s Passion in the sacred series of McFarlin UMC with the Norman Philharmonic and a recitalist for the Chamber Music Series of Calder Baptist Church.\u00a0 An alumnus of Lamar University, Mr. McCall is remembered as the Bass-baritone soloist for Vaughn-Williams\u2019 Serenade to Music and student soloist for Orff\u2019s Carmina Burana, both with the Symphony of Southeast Texas, David in Barber\u2019s Hand of Bridge, Sarastro in Die Zauberfl\u00f6te, and Der Kadi in Gluck\u2019s Der Betrogene Kadi with Lamar Opera Theatre, as well as Mordred in Camelot, Miles Gloriosus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and most fondly as the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance at Beaumont Community Players. Mr. McCall graduated from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK with his MM of Operatic Performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo by Gwen Juarez<\/p>\n

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2018 Pavel Lisitsian Award : Daewon Seo<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bass Recipient of an Anonymous Award Bass-baritone, DORIAN McCALL, has been described as a very compelling singing actor with a warm, even baritone and a rich and flexible voice, recognized as having great style, musically and physically, on stage and is a 2018 MONC Encouragement Award recipient, 2018 Naftzger Vocal Division winner, 2017 Career Bridges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5775,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5810","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5927,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5810\/revisions\/5927"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}