Tenor Rodrick Dixon's dramatic stage presence and stunning vocal qualities have established him as one of the rising stars in opera, contemporary opera, oratorio, concert/recital, musical theater and television.

In 2009, Mr. Dixon will make his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut as Oedipus Rex under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen and director Peter Sellars. He will make his Cleveland Orchestra debut at the Blossom Music Center under he baton of Robert Parco and return to the Cincinnati May Festival. His May Festival performances include the Mahler 8th, Bach Magnificat, The Seven Deadly Sins and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht. In 2008 for the Los Angeles Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra; Rodrick Dixon delivered a powerfully gripping performance as the Dwarf in the opera and concert presentation of Der Zwerg conducted by James Conlon. The Dwarf was filmed for a future DVD release. Opera News considered his portrayal of the Dwarf a triumph!In the spring and summer of 08' at the Cincinnati May Festival, he performed the Beethoven 9th, appeared as Trabuco in the concert version of La Forza del Destino and reunited with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Millennium Park for a Gala Concert celebrating the city of Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid.

In 2007, Rodrick Dixon made his LA Opera debut as Walther von der Vogelweide in Wagner's Tannhaeuser and performed excerpts of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt and Schuloff's Flammen for Recovered Voices. He returned to the May Festival to sing Rossini's Stabat Mater; appeared as Lenski in Todi Music Festival's summer production of Eugene Onegin; and filmed the PBS special The United States Air Force 60th Anniversary: A Musical Celebration. The rest of the 2007 season included duet recitals with Soprano Alfreda Burke for the Umbria Music Festival in Italy, concerts in Anchorage, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Tennessee, Detroit, Toronto, Dayton and Chicago. He participated as a guest soloist for the Cincinnati Symphony's New Year's Eve Celebration.

Mr. Dixon's additional opera credits include Michigan Opera Theater's and Todi Music Festival's La Fille Du Regiment (Tonio). He made his debut in Portland Opera's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Hoffmann); Columbus Opera's world premiere Vanqui (Prince); Virginia Opera's Porgy & Bess (Sportin' Life). In 1992, he joined the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. His Lyric Opera of Chicago credits include appearances in Don Quichote, Il Trovatore, McTeague, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Boheme, La Traviata, and Prince in the world premiere of The Song of Majnun. As a Lyric Opera center member, he participated in The Rossini Gala at the Ravinia Festival and a series of concerts at the Chatele Theater in Paris.

Other notable symphony engagements include Rachmaninoff's The Bells (Op.35) and Orff's Carmina Burana for the May Festival. He performed the Beethoven 9th Symphony and a concert of Opera & Broadway for the Vail Music Festival, under the baton of Marin Alsop. From 2001-2004 he made orchestral appearances with the Tenors Cook, Dixon & Young at Atlanta Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Dayton Symphony, Denver Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Chicago Symphony at Millennium Park; Elgin Symphony, Rackham Symphony Chorus and the Concordia Orchestra at Lincoln Center. Mr. Dixon received rave reviews for his Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert broadcast honoring Roland Hayes on WFMT-FM/Chicago. He has been presented in pre-concert recitals at the May Festival; completed a 30 city tour for Community Concerts (2000-2001) and a duet concert Following in the Footsteps (Hampton University) both with Soprano Alfreda Burke.

His extensive television credits include PBS specials: The US Air Force 60th Anniversary Gala (2007), Cook, Dixon & Young Volume One (2005), Washington Opera Gala at Constitution Hall (2003), The Mark Twain Awards Honoring Whoopi Goldberg at Kennedy Center (2002), My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs at City Center (2000). Other TV appearances include: The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS/NPR (2006), The Jerry Lewis Telethon (2002-2003), Marshall Fields' Christmas Commercials (2002), TV One's Christmas Specials (2006/07), WGN's A Christmas Glory (2003 and 2006), The Tony Awards (1998), NBC's Today Show, Good Morning America, The Rosie O'Donnell Show (2002) and The Wayne Brady Show. Rodrick Dixon's musical theater credits include the original cast of Ragtime on Broadway, Show Boat at the Auditorium Theatre, Pops Concerts at Grant Park Music Festival, The Pops Orchestra at the Rosemont Theater, N'digo gala and the Cincinnati Pops with Eric Kunzel.For the past six years Mr. Dixon has performed Christmas concerts of "Too Hot To Handel" at Detroit Opera House and Chicago's Auditorium Theatre under the baton of Suzanne Acton . Mr. Dixon's most recent recordings (Sony/BMG), PBS Great Performances Cook, Dixon & Young Volume One released in (2005), Follow That Star Christmas CD (2003), Liam Lawton's Sacred Land (2006) Rodrick Dixon Live in Concert (2008) and Chicago Olympic Bid Anthem "I Will Stand" for the 2016 Games (2008).