Robert MacNeil has been praised by the Los Angeles Times for possessing a voice that is “clarion” and “clear”.  He regularly performs at Los Angeles Opera, most recently in that company’s productions of Tannhäuser, Der Rosenkavalier, Il Trovatore, Fidelio, and La Bohème; he returns this 2008-2009 season for Il Tabarro. In 2008-2009 Mr. MacNeil makes his debut with San Francisco Opera in Idomeneo, Opera Pacific in Salome, Southwest Chamber Music in the Haroun Songbook and he returns to the San Diego Chamber Orchestra for Handel’s Messiah and the Los Angeles Master Chorale as soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah.  The tenor made his debut with the famed Ojai Festival under Kent Nagano in Orff’s Die Kluge and recorded the role of Martin in Copland’s opera The Tender Land, which was released on the Koch International Label. ~ An accomplished concert artist, the tenor has been soloist in more than fifty performances of Handel’s Messiah. He has soloed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in performances of Elijah, the Sydney Choral Festival in the Berlioz Requiem and in Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Central Union Philharmonic in Beijing. He made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in Britten’s The World of the Spirit and appeared in Rome with the Orchestra Roma Symphonia in Verdi’s Requiem. He has appeared as a guest artist with the Oregon Symphony, Aspen Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pacific Symphony, Oregon Festival of American Music, Pacific Chorale, Long Beach Opera, Pasadena Symphony, California Philharmonic, Angeles Chorale, Opera Santa Barbara, New West Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, Bozeman Symphony and numerous concerts with the San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Third Angle New Music Ensemble, William Hall Master Chorale, Bakersfield Symphony, California Master Chorale and the Cascade Music Festival. ~ Mr. MacNeil, a National Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, has his Bachelors in Music from Chapman University and Masters in Music from the University of Southern California. At the University of Southern California, he was a Marilyn Horne Scholar and was named Most Outstanding Graduate Student from the Thornton School of Music.

More info and photos on Mr. MacNeil’s website, www.rmacneil.com.