Todd Strange

Voice part: Tenor

Season you joined the Chorale: 2011/12

Birthplace: Yuba City, CA

Education/Vocal Training: BA in Vocal Performance from University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music; MM in Vocal Performance from University of Arizona

Do you make your living as a musician? Yes.

If so, where else do you gig/teach/conduct/sing/perform? LA Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, The Angeles Chorale, Orange County Opera, Guild Opera, San Marino Community Presbyterian Church, Vallejo Drive SDA Church, whoever will hire me....

Recent solo roles or guest appearances: LA Opera (soloist - Eugene Onegin), Southland Opera (tenor soloist), Pacific Coast Opera (Alfredo - La Traviata), The Angeles Chorale (Tenor soloist - Messiah), The Ohio Light Opera (various roles)

Recordings/TV/Film: I’m in the last 5 minutes of “The Proposal” - just don’t blink...

Highlights of your musical career: Tobias, Sweeney Todd, Arizona Opera; Title Role, The Czarevitch (Lehar), Ohio Light Opera; Frederic, Pirates of Penzance, Ohio Light Opera; Remendado, Carmen, Arizona Opera; Tenor Soloist, Messiah, Tucson Symphony; Tenor Soloist, Messiah The Angeles Chorale; Young Artist, San Diego Opera; Young Artist, Utah Festival Opera; Resident Artist, Ohio Light Opera (07, 08, 09); Alfredo, La Traviata, Pacific Coast Opera; Peasant Soloist Eugene Onegin, LA Opera; Captain, Simon Boccanegra, LA Opera(upcoming)

Favorite choral work: Mozart Requiem (Sussmayr) and the Verdi Requiem

A defining moment or favorite onstage experience: I was a soloist in Hungary closing out a concert with the Arizona Choir from the University of Arizona. I remember waking up that morning with absolutely no voice. The solo was written as a tour de force for tenor, accompanied by choir and piano. (I will lift up mine eyes - Hailstork). Although I had performed it before, I was still pretty scared that nothing may come out when I started singing, due to my busted voice that particular day. I was able to turn it around and “rally” to give one of my personal best solo performances ever. I was greeted by the audience with a rowdy Hungarian standing ovation. It was a personal victory, and a great moment.

What are you listening to these days?: Fritz Wunderlich, Radiohead, The Doors, Jussi Bjoerling, Frank Sinatra (Live at the Sands), Placido, The Pav, and Pink Floyd

Anything you’d like to add about yourself?: I can kind of Pop and Lock (It’s not pretty anymore, but I had skills in 5th Grade)