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Stanford Felix, D.M.A

Bass-baritone

Assistant Professor

Applied Voice, Vocal Pedagogy, Language Diction

Department of Music, Box 4029
Emporia State University
Emporia, KS 66801
(620) 341-5893
sfelix@emporia.edu

DMA, University of Kansas, Voice Performance

MM, Manhattan School of Music, Voice Performance

BFA, University of Kansas, Theatre and Voice

     Stanford Felix, Assistant Professor of Voice, has performed extensively on the opera and concert stage. His opera repertoire spans bass-baritone roles from Sir John Falstaff in Verdi’s Falstaff to Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca, Mephistopheles in Gounod’s Faust, Junius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Dr. Bartolo in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, and Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Figaro in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Jaffrey in Eyerly’s House of the Seven Gables, Joel in Mayer’s A Death in the Family and the Rev. John Hale in Ward’s The Crucible. He has performed with companies such as the Minnesota Opera, Orlando Opera, Des Moines Opera, L’Opera Français de New York, American Chamber Opera, as well as the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Carmel Bach Festival.

     Felix’s concert work includes performances of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and he has performed the major oratorio and requiem repertoire. In 1988 Mr. Felix was featured on a Virgin Records recording of Britten's Paul Bunyan, which won the "Best Opera Recording of the Year" Gramophone award. Dr. Felix received his Master of Music degree in Voice from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, and obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and Voice and Doctor of Musical Arts in voice from the University of Kansas. He is the founder and artistic director of Kansas Concert Opera and has previously taught on the voice faculty at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, where he directed and conducted the opera workshop. A composer of many choral pieces and art song compositions, Felix is a member of The American Composers Forum, the College Music Society and The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). He is a native of South Dakota.

 

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