Eugene Galvin

Bass-baritone

Eugene Galvin (B.A. Music Ed., Frostburg State University; M.M. Vocal Performance, CUA; D.M.A. Opera Performance, University of Maryland).

Studied voice with Sara Pierce, Donald Wiggins, Raymond Mc Guire, Dominic Cossa, acting with Leon Major. Coaching and master classes with Jerome Hines, Robert McCoy, Evelyn Lear, Theodore Uppman, Nico Castel, Charles Rieker."Galvin's voice is rich in tone, flexible in expression; his is as talented in acting as in singing, and impressively versatile." (Washington Post)

Most recently seen with Patti Lupone in Regina at the Kennedy Center and as Pandolfe in Summer Opera Theater Company's Cendrillon, Dr. Galvin is well known to Washington area audiences from his many operatic appearances with the Washington, Northern Virginia and Wolf Trap Opera companies, and at Constitution Hall as Sarastro in Magic Flute under the baton of Victor Borge. A specialist in the Bel Canto repertoire, Opera News magazine praised his "rich voice and superb musicianship in the role of Callistene" in Donizetti's Poliuto. Dr. Galvin has also toured as Opera New England's Sulpice in Daughter of the Regiment, has sung hundreds of performances throughout the country with the Cincinnati, Sarasota and National Operas, made a successful New York debut as the title character in Marriage of Figaro with the New York Grand Opera and has appeared as Prince Gremin in Cleveland Opera's Eugene Onegin. His 45 operatic roles also include Basilio, Don Giovanni, Colline, Dulcamara and Alidoro. Dr. Galvin also has sung and directed his own translation of Donizetti's Rita. In Musical Theater, he has played lead roles in Oklahoma and Carousel, and in Musicana Productions' National tour of Most Happy Fella.

On the concert stage, his bass solos in the 1999 Messiah Sing-Along at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington were broadcast live over the internet. Dr. Galvin has performed Weill's Seven Deadly Sins with Ute Lemper and the National Symphony, as soloist with the Arlington Symphony, Western Maryland Symphony, at the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center in concerts including the Mozart, Brahms and Faure Requiems and Bloch's Sacred Service. He was the bass soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Williamsburg Symphonia as part of the city's tricentennial celebration, and returned recently for Cimarosa's rarely performed one man opera, Il Maestro di Cappella. Recent engagements also include the title role in Donizetti's L'ajo nel imbarazzo with Opera Theater of Northern Virginia.