Thank you for visiting! My full website will launch late summer 2010.

I am starring in Kyle Gullings’s Oblivion at the Capital Fringe on July 8, 13, 16, 21, and 25. On September 7, you can see me in solo recital on the Tuesday Concert Series at the Church of the Epiphany in downtown Washington.

... James Rogers delivers powerful, arresting vocals, yet he wisely holds back just enough so as not to overrun his humble, everyman persona. — Ben Demers, review of Oblivion in DC Theatre Scene

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About the Artist

Hailed by The Washington Post as a superb soloist with a sensitively turned lyric baritone, Washington, D.C.-based James Rogers has been active in genres ranging from Viennese operetta to classical Lieder to challenging new works of the 21st century. In fall 2010, he and a chamber group of other Peabody alumni presented Ligeti’s Aventures and Nouvelles aventures at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, under the baton of Leon Fleisher. He appeared in Gregg Martin’s Life in Death at its January 2008 première and its revivals on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (September 2008) and the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival; in addition, he created the role of Apollo in Andrew Earle Simpson’s The Furies in February 2006 and appeared as John Sloat in Damon Ferrante’s Super Double Lite at its 2004 world première in New York. Other opera roles include the title role of Don Giovanni (Opera AACC), Danilo Danilowitsch and Baron Mirko Zeta in The Merry Widow (Washington Savoyards, Opera AACC), Albert in Werther (Opera Vivente), Lord Mountararat in Iolanthe, Captain Corcoran and Dick Deadeye in HMS Pinafore (Young Victorian Theatre Company), Escamillo in La tragédie de Carmen, Lescaut in Manon, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Music Master in Ariadne auf Naxos—the last four at Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Marianna Busching and Wayne Conner. As an oratorio soloist, Mr. Rogers has performed such works as Messiah (Cantate Chamber Singers, the combined choirs of Hood College and the U. S. Naval Academy, Prince George's Choral Society), Carmina Burana (World Bank/IMF Choral Society), J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (New Dominion Chorale) and his cantata, BWV 56 Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, as well as the Requiems of Brahms (Washington Summer Sings!) and Fauré (Library of Congress Chorale). In addition, he has appeared regularly on the pops series of the Annapolis Chorale.

Mr. Rogers is the founder of the Song Club of Washington, whose inaugural program in June 2009 featured three soloists performing the complete songs of Henri Duparc. As a member of the group Festa della Voce, he was heard in recital at such Washington-area venues as the Corcoran Gallery and the Embassies of Italy, Switzerland, and Canada. In solo recital, he has given world or North American premières of works by composers including Mikis Theodorakis, Paul Kletzki, Toby Twining, Richard Lake, and Benjamin CS Boyle. Engagements for fall 2010 include encore concerts of Brahms and Ligeti with Prof. Fleisher at Peabody and at New York’s 92nd Street Y.