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Albert Rudolph Lee, Tenor

Albert Rudolph Lee, tenor, (B.M. University of Connecticut, M.M. The Juilliard School) has appeared with the Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Palm Beach Opera, Berkshire Opera Company, Kentucky Opera, Connecticut Concert Opera, Saint Luke’s Chamber Orchestra, the Collegiate Chorale of New York City, the Pro Arts Symphony, the Missouri Symphony, the New Haven Chorale, Heritage Chorale, Caramoor International Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Lee has performed the title role in Britten’s Albert Herring, Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Lindoro in Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri, Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata, Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and was a soloist at the University of Connecticut in a performance of the Mozart Requiem given as a tribute to the victims of the 9/11 tragedy. He has also worked to preserve and expand the performance of Negro Spirituals with domestic and international performances as a soloist in the American Spiritual Ensemble. Mr. Lee has also collaborated with the late Victor Borge on an adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen. A winner of the 2007 Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition, Encouragement Award recipient in the Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria and Encouragement Award recipient at the Marian Anderson Prize for Emerging Classical Artists, Mr. Lee’s 2007-2008 engagements include the tenor solo in Handel’s Messiah with the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh and a concert in celebration of Black History Month with the New Haven Chorale.

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