Our Guest Tenor Soloist for the Handel:

JAMES ARCHIE WORLEY, our guest tenor soloist, was recently added to the roster of the Metropolitan Opera. He performed the role of La Sposo in Carl Orff's Trionfo di Afrodite with the American Symphony Orchestra at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. He also sang the role of the Laboureur in Chausson's Le Roi Arthus with the American Symphony Orchestra and can be heard on its recently released recording of Strauss's Die Liebe Der Danae. He sang the role of the Gondolier in Rossini's Otello this past summer at the Caramoor Music Festival with conductor Will Crutchfield. In Beijing, he performed in Verdi's Requiem with the Oratorio Society of New York and members of the Chinese National Opera Chorus and Orchestra.

In New Jersey, Archie sang in Haydn's Creation with the Masterwork Chorus, in Mendelssohn's Elijah and Dominick Argento's Jonah and the Whale with the Monmouth Civic Chorus, and in J.S. Bach's Passion According to St. John with the Princeton University Chapel Choir. He recently sang with the New York Philharmonic in Michael Torke's Four Seasons under the direction of Maestro Kurt Masur and in a performance and recording of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.

Archie premiered P.D.Q. Bach's newly discovered Four Next-to-Last Songs with Peter Schickele at the piano and sang in P.D.Q. Bach's Blaues Gras Cantata at Carnegie Hall. He also premiered and recorded Paul Moravec's song cycle, Naked Simplicities, and Christian Heim's Four Sufi Legends (written for Archie). His recordings also include: the role of the King in Philip Glass's The Witches of Venice.