Specializing in character tenor roles, he has a remarkably varied repertoire with more than 80 roles from Monteverdi to Ligeti. Mr. Cole’s recent seasons exemplify his extraordinary versatility: Don Buscone in Veremonda with the Spoleto Festival USA, performances as The Narrator in a world premiere of Chris Theofanidis’ Creation/ Creator with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Goro in Madama Butterfly and the Abbé de Chazeuil in Adriana Lecouvreur with Opéra de Nice, Nick in La Fanciulla del West with San Francisco Opera, the four valets in The Tales of Hoffman with Edmonton Opera and Canadian Opera Company, the three tenor roles in L’enfant et les Sortilèges with Théâtre de Caen, Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess with Cincinnati Opera, and Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte at the Théatre Champs Elysées in Paris. Mr. Cole has a particular interest in contemporary repertoire, having participated in the world premieres of Jean Prodromidès’ La noche triste, Gavin Bryar’s Medea, and the revised version of Györgi Ligeti’s Le grand macabre in a production by Peter Sellars at the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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