DUANE A. MOODY (Tenor)

Duane A. Moody has been singing, acting and dancing since the age of 4. Born and raised in Washington DC, he began his studies in the public schools and furthered his education at The Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University and Boston University earning a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance. Mr. Moody also received a Graduate Performance Diploma in Operatic Studies from The Peabody. In October of 1997, he made his professional recital debut at The Terrace Theatre of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In that same year, he joined the Mike Malone production of Black Nativity also at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. In 2001 Mr. Moody received The Outstanding Emerging Artist Award in Music from the D.C. Commission of the Arts and Humanities. In 1998, he made his professional stage debut at the IV Festival des Artes in Itu, Brazil in the role of “Sportin’ Life” in the opera Porgy and Bess. Since then, Mr. Moody has been starring in several productions of Porgy and Bess in Singapore, China, Japan, Israel, England, Ireland, Canada, Austria, Sweden and Scotland as well as with the Delaware Opera, Des Moines Opera, and Orlando Opera. Other operatic roles include Des Grieux (Manon), Arbace (Idomeneo), 2nd Priest (Die Zauberflote), and the lead role of Philip Herriton in the premiere of Mark Lanz Weiser’s, Where Angels Fear To Tread, based on the E. M. Forrester novel. Mr. Moody’s musical theater credits include The Wiz, Showboat and Fiddler on the Roof playing Black Cossack.