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Faculty Bio: Robert W. Overman
Artist-in-Residence & Director of Vocal Studies Robert joined the faculty of Greensboro College after an international singing career of more than 20 years. Robert studied at UNC-Greensboro and the Mozarteum Conservatory in Salzburg, Austria. He has performed throughout Europe and the U.S. in leading roles in such operas as: Rigoletto, Nabucco, La Traviata, La Bohème, Otello, Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Ballad of Baby Doe, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Trovatore, Gianni Schicchi, Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana and Don Giovanni in such venues as Munich, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg, Aachen, Warsaw, Luxembourg, Nuremberg, Basel, Zürich, Reggio Emilia, and Düsseldorf, and in concert with orchestras in such cities as Vienna, Bonn, Salzburg and Houston as well as Greensboro and Winston-Salem. He has performed opposite such singers as Placido Domingo, Barbara Daniels, Katja Riccerelli, and Sherrill Milnes. His current and former students can be heard in many of the world's leading opera houses, including those in Hamburg, Paris and New York. Robert has been a winner of several major vocal competitions including the International Belvedere Competition in Vienna, Austria, the National Opera Association auditions in Washington D.C. and the National Metropolitan Opera auditions in New York City. Upcoming productions include Piedmont Opera's Un Ballo in Maschera (Renato) in the fall of 2005 and Opera Carolina's La Traviata (Germont) in the spring of 2006. |