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Tenor Robert Lischetti graduated from the
Crane School of Music at the State University College at Potsdam, New York in
1974. In the summer of 1974 and in the following summer, he was engaged as an
apprentice artist with the Lake George Opera Festival in upstate New York. From
1975 until 1981 he was a member of the resident company and training program at
Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, New York, where he studied with Carmen Savoca
and Peyton Hibbitt, and sang many of the roles which would later become the
staples of his repertoire, including Tamino, Ferrando, Count Almaviva,
Edgardo, Pinkerton, Faust, and Rodolfo.
Between 1981 and 1987, Mr. Lischetti lived in New York
City, where he studied primarily with Franco Iglesias, a well known baritone
from Mexico and a teacher of Placido Domingo. During this time, he expanded his
sacred and oratorio repertoire as tenor soloist at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church under music director William Whitehead. He also sang with the New York
Choral Artists in concerts with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin
Mehta at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fischer Hall. He was active with the Opera
Northeast touring company out of New York City, and added the Virginia Opera,
the Syracuse Opera, the Indianapolis Opera, Opera Delaware, and the Syracuse
Symphony and Long Island Philharmonic Orchestras to his list of credits.
In 1987, Mr. Lischetti traveled to Germany, where he would
spend ten years singing as a guest artist in numerous opera houses, and also
touring throughout Switzerland, Austria, and Holland. He was a regular soloist
at the Staatsoperette Dresden, and the Landestheater Dessau, among others,
performing much of his standard repertoire, and adding Lenski/Eugen
Onegin, The Prince/Rusalka (Dvorak), Graf Elemer/Arabella and
Jaquino/Fidelio to his list of operatic roles. It was also in Germany that
he became well versed in the classical operettas of Johann Strauss and Franz
Lehar.
Since returning to the United States in 1997, Mr. Lischetti
has sung with the Sarasota Opera, the Sylvan Opera of Philadelphia, and the Gold
Coast Opera Company of Ft. Lauderdale. In concert he has appeared as a featured
soloist with the Brevard Symphony Orchestra in Melbourne FL, the Southwest
Florida Symphony Orchestra in Fort Myers, the Venice Symphony, and the Anna
Maria Community Chorus and Orchestra. He presently resides in Sarasota, and
teaches voice at his private home studio, and on the voice faculty at Manatee
Community College in Bradenton, where he has also served as director of the
Concert and Chamber Choirs. Mr. Lischetti sings regularly as a soloist at
Temple Sinai in Sarasota, as well as at several area churches, and in solo
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