Matthew Passion ( BWV 244) with Spire Chamber Ensemble (Kansas City) and as Isaac in B. He also performed as alto soloist in J.S. An experienced Handelian, Douglas Dodson performed the alto solos in George Frideric Handel's Messiah at Music at Marsh Chapel, Kansas City Baroque Consortium, and Handel Choir of Baltimore, and appeared as Athamas in Semele with Handel Choir of Baltimore.
He also sang Oberon in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Lowell House Opera in addition to several concert appearances. and Chicago Opera Theatre, under the baton of Gil Rose.
In recent seasons, this versatile musician bowed as The United Way in the American premiere of Tod Machover’s highly anticipated new opera Death and the Powers, an innovative collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and The American Repertory Theatre performed at the A.R.T. Hailed as a “vivid countertenor” ( The Wall Street Journal) with a voice that is “bright, pellucid” ( The Boston Globe), and “unusually sparkling” ( The Kansas City Star), Douglas Dodson is making his mark on opera and concert stages throughout the USA in repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the contemporary. He was a 2010 regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (New England Region) and a 2008 national finalist in the National Society of Arts and Letters National Career Awards Competition in Voice. The American counter-tenor, Douglas (Doug) Dodson, Originally from Spearfish, obtained his his Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of South Dakota (Vermillion) and his Master of Music degree from the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.