Education
He studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts and The Juilliard School.
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Richard Clark
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Career
He began his career at the San Francisco Opera as the Creditor in Milhaud"s Christophe Colomb on October 5, 1968. Clark continued with that company until 1974, in Ernani (as Iago, opposite Renato Cioni and Leontyne Price). Les Troyens (as Panthée, with Régine Crespin).
Salome (as First Soldier, with Anja Silja in her American début, in Wieland Wagner"s production).
Rigoletto (as Monterone, with Harry Theyard as the Duke). Fidelio (Second Prisoner, opposite Dame Gwyneth Jones).
Louisiana forza del destino (the Surgeon, with Carlo Bergonzi). Louisiana traviata (Doctor Grenvil).
Pelléas et Mélisande (the Physician).
Le nozze di Figaro (as Antonio). Roméo et Juliette (as Duke of Verona). The Consul (as Mr Kofner), the United States première of Der Besuch der alten Dame (as the Train Conductor II, with Regina Resnik, directed by Francis Ford Coppola).
Tosca (as the Jailer, conducted by Nino Sanzogno).
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (as Alaska-Wolf Joe), Carmen (as Moralès), and Of Mice and Men. In 1981, Clark made his official début with the Metropolitan Opera, as Monterone in John Dexter"s production of Rigoletto, opposite Matteo Manuguerra and Judith Blegen.
His final appearance with the company was of the name part of Rigoletto, on tour to Rutgers University, in a concert version, in 1990. Clark participated in the Met telecasts of Rigoletto (as Monterone, 1981), Idomeneo (1982), Tannhäuser (1982), and, most importantly, Simon Boccanegra (1984).
(The last three were published commercially) In 1996, his album Keep a Little Christmas in Your Heart was published on Compact Disc.
