SOKOL, MICHAEL Michael Sokol, baritone
Baritone MICHAEL SOKOL grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He has sung Faninal
in Der Rosenkavalier with the Nashville Opera; Nardo in Mozart's La
Finta Giardiniera with the Netherland's Opera Zuid; Popolani in Offenbach's
Barbe-Bleue with Opéra Français de New York; and the world
premiere of There Is a Garden: The Music of Leonard Bernstein, conceived,
created, and directed for Chicago Opera Theater by his wife, soprano Angelina
Réaux, who performed in it as well. Acclaimed for his performances of
20th-century opera, he created the role of Frank Lloyd Wright in the world premiere
of Darren Hagen and Paul Muldoon's opera Shining Brow and the role of
the Magician in the American premiere of Stephen Oliver's Mario and the Magician.
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