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Baritone David Kravitz is increasingly in demand on operatic and concert stages around the country. Mr. Kravitz's 2008-2009 opera season featured company debuts with Glimmerglass Opera (La traviata and The Consul) and American Lyric Theater in New York City, as well as return engagements with Opera Boston (Der Freischütz and The Bartered Bride). Previous seasons have included appearances with James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Les Troyens and Moses und Aron), and Opera Theatre of St. Louis, where critics hailed his "perfect comic timing" and "commanding" performance as Ko-Ko in The Mikado. Other recent opera roles include the title role in Wozzeck, Leporello and the title role in Don Giovanni, Ping in Turandot, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, and Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress. Operatic engagements in 2009-2010 include a return to Opera Theatre of St. Louis for the world premiere of The Golden Ticket, and Germont in La traviata with the Pioneer Valley Symphony.

Mr. Kravitz made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in December 2008, singing the bass arias in Handel's Messiah under Julian Wachner; in the previous season, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, he garnered rave reviews for his "resolute power and total connection" in Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Also in 2008-2009, Mr. Kravitz returned to Boston Baroque for Bach's Magnificat at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, and to Cantata Singers for Britten's Cantata misericordium. Concert engagements in 2009-2010 include Raphael in Haydn's Die Schöpfung with Emmanuel Music under John Harbison, Cimarosa's Il maestro di cappella with Boston Baroque under Martin Pearlman, Messiah with the Charlotte Symphony, and return engagements with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under James Levine and Sir Colin Davis.

Mr. Kravitz's commitment to new music has led to his presentation of world or regional premieres of numerous contemporary works. Critics hailed his 2009 performance of Leontes in John Harbison's Winter's Tale with Boston Modern Orchestra Project as "brilliantly sung" and "a personal triumph." Also in 2008-09, Mr. Kravitz presented the world premieres of Thomas Whitman's A Scandal in Bohemia with Orchestra 2001; James Yannatos's Lear Symphony with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra; Julian Wachner's My dark eyed one with Back Bay Chorale; and short operas by Andy Vores and Theo Loevendie with Boston Musica Viva. New music engagements in 2009-2010 include music of Andy Vores and Scott Wheeler with Boston Modern Orchestra Project under Gil Rose, and a workshop of a new opera by Tod Machover at the American Repertory Theatre.

Mr. Kravitz's recordings include Bach's Cantata 20 and St. John Passion with Emmanuel Music (Koch International Classics), John Harbison's Four Psalms and Peter Child's Estrella with Cantata Singers (New World), and Harbison's Winter's Tale with Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP/sound, forthcoming).