Richard completes his seventh season with the Metropolitan Opera this Spring with four more performances as Goro in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Richard appeared in twenty performances earlier this season, both in Madama Butterfly and in Strauss's Die Frau Ohne Schatten as the Night Watchman. Richard's performances in Madama Butterfly will be nationally broadcast via Texaco's Live from the Met radio broadcast series on March 30th, representing the most recent of several national broadcasts in which Richard has performed with the Metropolitan Opera. Upcoming events include three concerts in Norway as well as three concerts in China with three other Metropolitan singers. Negotiations have been completed with the Jackson Symphony (Michigan) to perform Tosca in the Spring of 2003.

Other recent performances include concerts in San Antonio and Lansing along with recent engagements with the Metropolitan Opera in Prokofiev's The Gambler and Puccini's Turandot. Richard's recital "Special Deliveries: Musical Messages from New York 9/11" proved an intense but overwhelmingly moving evening. Plans for repeat performances are moving forward for both Lansing and Great Mid-Michigan.

Richard's recent concert appearances included Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Western Michigan University, Handel's Messiah with the Lansing Symphony, Mahler's Eighth Symphony with the Grand Rapids Symphony and Britten's Serenade for Tenor and Horn with the Jackson Symphony. Richard has also recently appeared with the Grand Rapids Opera as the title character in Philip Glass's Fall of the House of Usher as well as Pong in Puccini's Turandot.

Career highlights include world debuts of Philip Glass's Hydrogen Jukebox and Orphee, as well as performing the lead tenor role in the Metropolitan Opera's production of 
The Voyage. Richard also made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1998 in Glass's Civil Wars to critical acclaim.

Richard has performed leading tenor roles in Spain, Italy and Iceland and in nearly every state in the United States. Richard has participated in the prestigious Spoleto Festival (Italy) and the Saito Kinen Festival (Japan) and has worked with such illustrious conductors as James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Carlos Kleiber, Nello Santi, Valery Gergiev and Marco Armeliato.

Richard appears frequently in concert and in recital. A full list of upcoming local appearances (Greater Mid-Michigan area) appears on Richard's web site calendar. Richard continues to teach privately and regularly conducts master classes between professional engagements. Richard recently made his directorial debut in Michigan State University's well-received production of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. Further directorial appearances are planned.

To contact Richard Fracker:
TenorFracker@aol.com

Manager: Wolf Artists Management, Isabel Wolf

Isabel Wolf
Prima Americas Artists Management Incorporated
788 Columbus Avenue No. 15A
New York, New York 10025-5936
Tel (212) 531-1514
Fax (212) 531-1610
E-Mail: americas@primartists.com

Richard Fracker as
"Goro"
Madama Butterfly
Metropolitan Opera

Richard Fracker as
"Nadir"
The Pearl Fishers
Atlanta Opera