Background
A working
opera singer.
Derek sings on professional stages year round. Here's where he sings and what he's sung: the same singer you'd be booking for an Opera Lux event.
I'm a trained opera singer, in the same room as your guests. No staging, no distance. Fifteen years on professional opera stages; your event gets the same performer. Derek plans the programme personally with each host.
Derek Rue
Solo Singer · Opera Lux Events
On Stage
Roles on professional
opera stages.
Solo singer at Theater Trier, Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Luzio in Das Liebesverbot, Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain, and Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte.
Three seasons in the ensemble at the Mittelsächsisches Theater, Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Wenzel in Die verkaufte Braut, Baron Kronthal in Der Wildschütz, and Camille in Die lustige Witwe.
A debut as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte earned the Anne Marie Ketchum Award and a place at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, studying under Christoph Strehl.
Repertoire
What Derek sings.
Opera, operetta, musical theatre and crossover, with songs and timing agreed around your event. Solo performances use recorded orchestral backing.
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