Career
While traveling with the Ice Follies, he started his operatic career in 1947 performing with the San Francisco Opera, and soon maestro Gaetano Merola of the SFO convinced patrons to award the singer with a year of additional study in Italy. Upon his return to the United States, Fredericks appeared with many of the country"s foremost opera companies including those in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and New New York He had also been a guest soloist of many of symphony orchestras throughout the United States and made radio, television, and motion picture appearances.
Fredericks also performed throughout New Jersey, in Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit and Dearborn, Kansas City, Tucson, and many cities in California, and toured to Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America.
During his travels throughout the United States he performed programs of sacred music at many churches and seminaries. Fredericks" operatic repertoire of over 30 roles included Lieutenant
Pinkerton in Puccini"s Madama Butterfly, Pollione in Bellini"s Norma, Cassio in Verdi"s Otello, Canio in Leoncavallo"s Pagliacci, Ismaele in Verdi"s Nabucco, Alfredo in Verdi"s Louisiana traviata, Don Jose in Bizet"s Carmen, Manrico in Verdi"s Il trovatore, and Avito in Montemezzi"s L"amore dei tre re. Fredericks started the annual Christmas Carolfest on the Music Pier in Ocean City, New Jersey in the mid-1970s and directed it for several years until his death.