Lawrence Craig

Most recently Mr. Craig sang fantastic performances in Bogata, Columbia and Santiago Chile featuring exerpts from Porgy and Bess with orchestras, sponsored by the US Embassy in those countries. He is re-engaged with those symphonies for future concerts. He appeared in the world premieres of Baur’s The Promise as Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. with the Germantown PAC and Raphael’s Nat Turner as Henry with Trilogy Opera. He has also appeared on Broadway in Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème on Broadway, Spoleto Festival in the American premiere of Kurt Weill’s Die Bürgschaft (recorded for EMI Classics), the Latvian National Opera as Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen, Opera Colorado as Sportin’ Life in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, American Opera Projects/Vineyard Theatre as Soong Ling in Xiang’s Beautiful Warrior, Theatreworks USA as Jim in a national tour production of Huckleberry Finn, Harlem Repertory Theatre as the Lion in The Wiz, and INTAR/Women’s Project as Cristobal in Sierra’s opera for the Broadway theater Terra Incognita. Other contemporary American opera appearances include Ain’s The Outcast, Argento’s Postcard from Morocco, Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Davis’s X, León’s The Scourge of Hyacinths, Mechem’s John Brown, Menotti’s The Medium and Amahl and the Night Visitors, Susa’s Transformations, and Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts.

Recent concert appearances include Elijah with the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day tributes with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra and guest appearance for the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, Symphonic Orchestra of Chile for Copland’s Old American Songs, the George Enescu Bucharest Philharmonic and the Athens State Orchestra in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Symphonic Orchestra of Argentina in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Dayton Philharmonic for Dett’s The Ordering of Moses, Romanian Broadcasting Corporation in J. S. Bach’s Weihnachts Oratorium, Finland’s Kainuu International Jazz and Musica Borealis Festivals for Sarmanto’s jazz lieder cycle North Country Suite, Cincinnati Pops as Walker in Gershwin’s Blue Monday and as Sportin’ Life in excerpts from Porgy and Bess (recorded for Telarc International), Austrian Broadcasting Corporation singing “Old Man River” for the motion picture Musik am Mississippi, Finland’s Savonlinna International Opera Festival for the jazz oratorio Perfect Harmony (record & video for Finlandia), and the Philharmonics of Alabama, Argentina, Chile, El Paso, and Istanbul in Porgy and Bess (soprano/baritone concert). He has also appeared with the Battle Creek Symphony, Bel Canto Chorus and Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá, Cayman National Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Maryland Handel Festival, Milwaukee Symphony, Napa Valley Symphony, the National Chorale, New Jersey Symphony, New World Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Philharmonic Orchestra of Florida, Phoenix Symphony, ProArte Chorale, Santa Rosa Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, and the Vienna Philharmonic. Mr. Craig is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association and the American Guild of Musical Artists.

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