Cast Biographies

RICHARD MIX, bass, appears with nearly a dozen Bay Area companies, singing a repertoire that embraces Wagner and Monteverdi as well as Scelsi and Stockhausen. A former cellist, he made his singing debut as Truelove in Berkeley Contemporary Opera's 1992 production of The Rake's Progress and went on to the Darmstaeter Sommerferienkurse für neue Musik, to which he was re-invited with the Patenring Award in 1994 and 1996. Local premieres range from Arthur in Maxwell Davis' The Lighthouse to a rediscovered cantata by the nearly forgotten colleague of Buxtehude, Heinrich Pagendarm. He conducted Liszt's Via Crucis at St. David of Wales in Richmond.