Dean Anthony
Tenor
New England Third Place Winner, 1989

Often referred to as “The Tumbling Tenor,” Stage Director and character tenor Dean Anthony has created over 90 roles and been highly praised as a character artist for his vocal, dramatic, physical and acrobatic abilities. In particular demand for his portrayals of the roles, Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Little Bat in Susanna, Curley in Of Mice And Men, the Witch in Hansel And Gretel, Pong in Turandot, Bardolfo in Falstaff, Beppe in I Pagliacci, Pedrillo in Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail, Sancho in Man of La Mancha, Monostatos in Die Zauberflote, Alfred in Die Fledermaus , Brigella and Tanzmeister in Ariadne Auf Naxos, Njegus in The Merry Widow,  The four Servants in Les Contes D'hoffmann, and Goro in Madama Butterfly.  He is, and has been  a frequent guest with companies across North America including L’Opera de Montreal, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Baltimore Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Vancouver Opera, Florentine Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Arizona Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Nashville Opera and Opera=2 0Carolina.  As Sam Kaplin and Daniel Buchanan in the acclaimed production of Street Scene, which was televised worldwide, Mr. Anthony made his European debut with Theater im Pfalzbau in Ludwigshafen, Germany, with subsequent performances in Berlin at Theater des Westens. Other television appearances include broadcasts of An Evening Of Gilbert And Sullivan with the Boston Pops, and the world premiere of Robert Greenleaf’s Under The Arbor, both on PBS.

As a Stage Director, Mr. Anthony will join the Shreveport Opera in the fall of 2009 as the Resident Stage Director/Director of Production where he will direct Man of La Mancha, La Boheme, and Amahl and the Night Visitors. He was also the Artistic Director of the newly formed Diamond Opera Theater in upstate New York for two seasons producing and directed  The Medium  and The Face on the Barroom Floor. His developing directing career has lead him to Opera Tampa for Anton Coppola's Sacco and Vanzetti and co-director of their La Fanciulla Del West as well as Hansel And Gretel and Man of La Mancha with Augusta Opera, The Merry Widow with the University of Minnesota at Duluth, Sweeney Todd and Le Tragedie De Carmen with Augusta Opera, and Manon Lescaut with Shreveport Opera. In the summer of 2008 he joined David Gatley as Assistant Director of the Brevard Music Center/Janiec Opera Company specializing in Acting and Movement, and returned in 2009 where he directed Suor Angelica. His unique Masterclass series based on Movement and Acting for Y oung Singers has lead him to Nashville Opera, Virginia Opera, Festival Lyrique de Belle Ile en Mer, University of Texas, Texas State University, University of Wisconsin Green Bay, Governers School of Virginia, Brevard Music Center, Astonia Music Festival and Central Methodist University.

As a performer, Mr. Anthony recently appeared as Mime in Das Rheingold with the Indianapolis Opera and Symphoy, Spoletta in TOSCA with Baltimore Opera, Goro in Madama Butterfly, Lutz in  Student Prince, and a production of L'enfant Et Les Sortilege as Teapot, Tree Frog, and the Old Man with The Nashville Opera, Monostatos in Die Zauberflote with New York City Opera, Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream with the Princeton Festival and Florentine Opera, Curley in Of Mice And Men with Vancouver Opera, the servants in Les Conte Di Hoffmann and Edmundo, Dance Master, and the Lamplighter in Manon Lescaut with Palm Beach Opera, Howard Boucher in Dead Man Walking with Michigan Opera Theater, Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier with Opera Carolina, Voltaire, Pangloss, and the Governer in CANDIDE with Lake George Opera, Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream with Utah Opera, 1st Officer/Sandy in Peter Maxwell Davies THE LIGHTHOUSE in Nashville, Nick in Fanciulla Del West with Florida Grand Opera, Mungo in Charles Dibdin's The Paddlock with Chicago Opera Theater, Monstatos in Die Zauberflote with Opera Carloina and Michigan Opera Theater, Pong in Turandot with Nashville, Columbus, and Indianapolis Opera.

Mr. Anthony can be heard on Naxos* as Kaspar in Amahl And The Night Visitors.

Mr. Anthony is represented by Pinnacle Arts Management.

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