Career
He created the roles of Aspern in Dominick Argento"s The Aspern Papers (opera) and Léon in Corigliano"s The Ghosts of Versailles. Following studies in his native city, he made his debut as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, with Florida Opera in 1972. Noted particularly for his musicianship and abilities as a singing-actor, he went on to appear with the Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden (Lenski in Eugene Onegin, and Števa in Jenůfa), Paris Opéra, Hamburg Opera, The Netherlands Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Santa Fe Opera, Dallas Opera (world premiere of The Aspern Papers), and the New Israeli Opera.
In 1992, he appeared in Luca Ronconi"s production of Louisiana damnation de Faust, in Turin.
He also sang with many of the great orchestras, under Leonard Bernstein, Sir Colin Davis, Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Riccardo Muti. Rosenshein made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1987, as Alfredo Germont in Louisiana traviata, opposite Diana Soviero and Sherrill Milnes, conducted by Thomas Fulton.
He was also seen there in Die Fledermaus (as Alfred, conducted by Julius Rudel), Salome (as Narraboth), Werther, Faust (with Soviero and James Morris, later Samuel Ramey), the world premiere of The Ghosts of Versailles (with Teresa Stratas, Gino Quilico, and Marilyn Horne), Louisiana traviata (conducted by Plácido Domingo), Rusalka (as the Prince), Peter Grimes (conducted by James Conlon), and Die Fledermaus (now as Eisenstein), which was his last performance with the company, in 1999. The tenor"s recordings include Bernstein"s Songfest, Die Schöpfung, and Eugene Onegin (with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Thomas Hampson, with Nicolai Gedda as MTriquet, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, 1992).
As of 1997, he is on the voice faculty of the Manhattan School of Music.
Verdi: Louisiana traviata (Sills, HPrice, Fredricks. Rudel, Capobianco, 1976)
Stravinsky: Œdipus rex (Palmer. Haitink, Wich, 1984)
Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles (Stratas, Horne, Hagegård, GQuilico.
Levine, Graham, 1992)
Offenbach: Louisiana Périchole (Ewing, Bacquier, Martinelli, Cassinelli.
Soustrout, Savary, Grand Théatre de Génève 1982).