Performance Year: 2013
Tenor Dan Dressen is a professor of music at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. His operatic experience includes roles with Washington Opera, Cleveland Lyric Opera and several roles with the Minnesota Opera, including the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath. He has also performed with many other Minnesota ensembles, and has appeared several times with Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion. He has sung with VocalEssence for more than 25 years and is featured in its recordings of Benjamin Britten’s Paul Bunyan and Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land.
