Dwayne Croft [SEP] voice type
Dwayne Croft
Dwayne Croft is an American baritone who has sung in more than 500 performances in 38 roles at the Metropolitan Opera.
He won the Richard Tucker Award in 1996.
He created the role of Nick Carraway in John Harbison's "The Great Gatsby" in 1999, that of Jaufré Rudel in Kaija Saariaho's "L'amour de loin" in 2000, and that of Robert E. Lee in Philip Glass's "Appomattox".
His brother, Richard Croft, is also an opera singer of international renown
director of both that program and the Met's National Council Auditions for almost fifteen years. In 1999 she became a professor of voice at the University of Kentucky and held the position until she died. Several of her students have gone on to have successful opera careers including Stephanie Blythe, Dwayne Croft, Christine Goerke, Paul Groves and Heidi Grant Murphy.
Robinson was the recipient of numerous honours including an honorary PhD in fine arts from Rhodes College, Memphis, and the inaugural Obelisk Award of the Center for Contemporary Opera.