Dale Duesing - Topic

Dale Duesing is an American baritone. As an opera singer, he has had an international career spanning five decades.
Duesing grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied piano throughout childhood, and enrolled at Lawrence University, majoring in piano performance. He switched to vocal performance while in college, and won the Metropolitan Opera Competition in his final year of study. After traveling to Europe with a Fulbright Scholarship, Duesing made a name for himself there.
Duesing has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Paris Opéra, and Covent Garden, among others.
He appeared at the Metropolitan from 1979 to 1989 in Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Zauberflöte, Pagliacci, Don Pasquale, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Pelléas et Mélisande, Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, and Die Fledermaus.
In 2006 and 2011 Mr. Duesing was seen as the Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen in The Netherlands.
The baritone has also sung under the direction of Karl Böhm, Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Carlo Maria Giulini, Edo de Waart, Herbert von Karajan, and Seiji Ozawa.