The Filipino-American tenor (TDO debut) is a regular guest artist with major opera companies. He has appeared onstage at the Metropolitan Opera as Valzacchi/Der Rosenkavalier and as both Nathanael and Frantz/Les contes d’Hoffmann, the latter a new production. He has also appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Monostatos/The Magic Flute. Elsewhere, his performances have been heard with the Los Angeles, Seattle, Pittsburgh, and Tulsa Opera companies (Goro/Madama Butterfly); Houston Grand Opera (Goro, Mime/Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Squeak/Billy Budd, Dancing Master/Ariadne auf Naxos); The Santa Fe Opera (Ong Chi Seng/Paul Moravec’s The Letter, world premiere); the Ravinia Festival (Curzio/The Marriage of Figaro, Spoletta/Tosca, Arbace/Idomeneo); Numi Opera in Los Angeles (title role/Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg); and the Cleveland Orchestra (First Jew/Salome). Rosel is a former Grand Finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and an alumnus of the Ryan Opera Center of Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he has sung 20 roles.
