Dashiell Waterbury, tenor & stage director
Dashiell Waterbury
Dashiell Waterbury is new to the Washington, D.C. area after a chapter as the Head of Opera at Stetson University in Orlando, Florida. He has performed all over the world in tenor repertoire ranging from opera and oratorio to musical theater. Past roles include Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Tamino in Die Zauberflӧte, tenor soloist in Houston Bach Society’s St John Passion, and tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem with the Paradise and Northstate Symphonies in California. At Stetson University and elsewhere, he has directed Die Fledermaus, Camelot, The Cunning Little Vixen, Dido and Aeneas, Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Die Zauberflӧte, Handel’s Oreste, Argento’s Postcard from Morocco, Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, and Mozart’s Zaide, among several other productions. Dashiell has also adapted and directed several short operas of his own as well as a full-scale musical about World War 1 and two Shakespeare adaptations, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Romeo and Juliet. He holds graduate degrees from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and Florida State University, and is a former directing fellow at Wolf Trap Opera and an alumnus of Director’s Lab. He is thrilled to be joining the DC community.