Previously, Mr. Friedley has appeared as soloist in performances of Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina burana, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Lobgesang, and various cantatas of J.S. Bach. Recent recital credits include Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin in Princeton, NJ and music of Rossini, Ravel, and Quilter at Drew University, Madison, NJ. He performed the role of Andrew in an excerpt of William Mayer’s A Death in the Family for the 1999 convention of the National Opera Association.
New Brunswick audiences will remember with pleasure his acclaimed performances in Puccini’s La Bohème (Benoit/Alcindoro), Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus (Blind/Frosch), and Cavalli’s L’Egisto (Dema) with Opera at Rutgers.
Mr. Friedley can be heard playing a raucous but loveable First Crapshooter on the 1997 Newport Classics release of Lukas Foss’ The Jumping Frog. He played an atypically comic Don Ottavio in a recent production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In addition to programs in New Jersey and elsewhere in the U.S., he has distinguished himself as a solo recitalist at the American Church in Paris.
Mr. Friedley is a Lecturer in Voice at California State University, Fresno. Previously, he was Director of the Rutgers Community Music Program, New Brunswick and an Affiliate Artist at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, a Master of Music degree in Musicology at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, and a Master of Music degree in Voice from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, where he studied with tenor Frederick Urrey.