Tenor Carl Rosenthal is thrilled to return to Dayton Opera as an Artist-in-Residence. In the past two seasons, he has appeared in Tosca (Spoletta), Sweeney Todd (Pirelli), Das Rheingold (Froh), and Amahl and the Night Visitors (King Kaspar), a role he will reprise at the Schuster this December. He has joined the Dayton Philharmonic as tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Missa Brevis K. 259, and he has participated in outreach productions of The Elixir of Love (Nemorino), The Pirates of Penzance (Frederic), and Who Wants to be an Opera Star? (Emcee), performed for local schools and libraries.
Recent engagements for the tenor include Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas) with MIOpera, Too Many Sopranos (Nelson Deadly) with Cedar Rapids Opera, and Die Fledermaus (Alfred) with Peach State Opera. Other career highlights include La Traviata (Alfredo), Carmen (Don José), Die Zauberflöte (Tamino), Così fan tutte (Ferrando), La Rondine (Ruggero), and Bernstein’s MASS (Celebrant). He has performed with a number of professional U.S. regional companies, including MassOpera, Hub City Opera, Loudoun Lyric Opera, and Franklin Light Opera.
In addition to his Opera and Musical Theater work, Rosenthal has found success in the world of Orchestral Narration (especially in pieces intended for children). He has performed The Composer is Dead, Maestro Stu Saves the Zoo, and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with the Dayton Philharmonic to great acclaim.
Originally from Arlington, Virginia, Rosenthal holds a Master of Music from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University. He worked as a mathematics teacher in New York City before pursuing a career in classical music. He is an active marathon-runner and a proud cat dad to Remy and Lucie.