Randall Scotting

[2] The next year he made his European stage debut performing the role of Teseo in Vivaldi's Ercole sul Termodonte at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy.

Scotting has said that coming from a non-musical family and growing up in rural Colorado provided little access to classical music and opera, but he was drawn to performing after his first dance class at 9 years old.

He began graduate studies in Voice at Southern Methodist University in Dallas for one year, and then trained at the Juilliard Opera Center in New York as a guest artist during 2005 and 2006.

Scotting's first major leading stage role was at the Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, singing in Vivaldi's Ercole sul Termodonte conducted by Alan Curtis.

He has sung the title roles in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, Vivaldi's il Tigrane, Cavalli's Eliogabalo, Caldara's Santo Stefano, and Stradella's San Giovanni Battista.

He has sung staged performances of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Iannis Xenakis's challenging masterwork The Oresteia, and Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King.

Scotting has musically improvised with Bobby McFerrin at Carnegie Hall, crooned Leonard Cohen songs while dancing a burlesque striptease for Company XIV,[10] and sung arias in an experimental version of Handel's Ariodante at National Sawdust accompanied by a bluegrass band.

[19] Scotting was granted a Fulbright Scholarship in 2008 to live in Budapest while researching and performing Hungarian folk music and contemporary song by Ligeti, Bartók, Kurtág, Farkas, and Eötvös.