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Current Season
In 2012-13, Mr. Bernstein returns to the Metropolitan Opera for his 17th consecutive season. Highlights include singing the role of Panthus in Les Troyens which will be broadcast internationally for the Met's Live in HD Series on January 5, 2013. Mr. Bernstein will also sing Zuniga in Carmen, Wagner in Faust, 2nd Commissioner in Dialogues des Carmélites, and cover the roles of Fafner in both Das Rheingold & Siegfried and the Frate in Don Carlo.

Also, he will sing his first major Wagnerian role: Daland in Der fliegender Holländer as part of the Princeton Festival. He will also appear as Tiresias in Oedipus Rex at the Cincinnati May Festival under the baton of James Conlon, and as Herod and Le père de famille in Berlioz’s L'enfance du Christ with the New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall.

Biography
Richard Bernstein is an American bass, born and raised in New York. He moved west to pursue his musical studies at the University of Southern California. Upon graduation, he was invited to become a member of the Los Angeles Opera Resident Artist program in its inaugural season, and remained an L.A. company member for over ten years.

He has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera since his debut in 1995 and has sung over 250 performances and more than 50 live international radio broadcasts with the company. He has also appeared in several MET’s Live in HD productions (including Philip Glass’s Satyagraha and Puccini’s La fanciulla del West) broadcast to movie theaters around the world as well as on PBS’s Live from the Met series. In 2013, he will be seen in the Live in HD performance of Les Troyens.

He has sung everything from classic operas to contemporary works with the MET, including roles in: La bohème, Simon Boccanegra, Die Zauberflöte, Tosca, Hamlet, From the House of the Dead, Salome, Samson et Dalila, Carmen, Manon Lescaut, War and Peace, Macbeth, Eugene Onegin, A View From the Bridge, and Wozzeck.

He created the role of Orville Mason in the world premiere performances of Tobias Pickers’s An American Tragedy at the Metropolitan Opera (2006-07 Season). He created the role of Laurent in the world premiere of Tobias Pickers’s Thérèse Raquin at Dallas Opera (2001-02 Season). He performed the role of Marco in William Bolcom’s A View From the Bridge (based on the Arthur Miller play) at both its Metropolitan Opera premiere in 2002-03 and at Washington Opera in 2007-08. He has sung Sancho Panza in Massenet’s Don Quichotte with the Klangbogen Festival in Vienna and at Seattle Opera.

He has performed his signature role of Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro worldwide, with the opera companies of San Diego, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Portland, as well as the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, among others.

Other significant roles include: Mephistopheles in Faust, The Four Villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Colline in La bohème, Olin Blitch in Susannah, Orest in Elektra, Mustafà in L'italiana in Algeri, Frank Maurent in Street Scene, Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro, Alidoro in La Cenerentola, and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor. And he has performed with opera companies and festivals around the country and around the world, including the Ravinia Festival, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Los Angeles Opera, Atlanta Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Central City Opera, Opera Pacific, Opera Fairbanks, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Savonlinna Festival in Finland, the Tanglewood Music Festival, and the Spoleto Festival.

Orchestral collaborations include work with a number of major American symphony orchestras, such as the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago, San Francisco, and National Symphonies, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

He has had the privilege of working with some of the most important conductors of the day, including: James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Andrew Davis, Donald Runnicles, Patrick Summers, Fabio Luisi, and Corrado Rovaris.

DVD Recordings
 Bello in La fanciulla del West with the Metropolitan Opera (Deutsche Grammaphon) Pietro in Simon Boccanegra with the Metropolitan Opera (Sony) 2nd Soldier in Salome with the Metropolitan Opera (Sony) Captain in Manon Lescaut with the Metropolitan Opera (EMI). Zaretski in Eugene Onegin on Decca’s 2008 Grammy-nominated recording (Best Opera Recording) 

Audio Recordings
 Laurent in Tobias Pickers’s Thérèse Raquin on Chandos Records Bass Soloist on John Axelrod’s How do I love Thee on Marquis Music label</li> </ul>