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.
A native of Cooperstown, New York he was married to the Spanish soprano Ainhoa Arteta, with whom he has a daughter, Sarah.
Recordings
1999: En Concierto - Ainhoa Arteta and Dwayne Croft with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Castilla y Léon, Bragado Darman, cond. RTVE MUSICA 65126 - recorded live on August 9, 1999, at the Palacio de los Festivales in Cantabria, Spain
Videography
The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991. Deutsche Grammophon DVD, 00440-073-4582
James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala (1996), Deutsche Grammophon DVD, B0004602-09
Notes
External links
Full biography at IMG Artists website
American operatic baritones
Living people
Richard Tucker Award winners
20th-century American male opera singers
21st-century American male opera singers
People from Cooperstown, New York
Singers from New York (state) Classical musicians from New York (state) Year of birth missing (living people)