I will be playing the role of The Tempter (Abbot) in this fully staged and costumed production of this moving, rarely seen chamber opera. Influenced by Japanese Noh drama and based on the Biblical story of a young man's fateful journey of self-destruction and return to his father, The Prodigal Son showcases Britten's amazing talent for blending old and new into effective lyrical theater: plainsong chant, asian modal patterns and middle eastern dance rhythms combine to create a uniquely modern sound that is an effective storytelling device for this timeless tale.
Tickets: $25 General / $15 Student & Senior
Information / Reservations: 212.684.4174
The Church of the Transfiguration,
The Little Church Around the Corner
One East 29 Street (btwn. Fifth & Madison Aves), NYC
March 28 Ada, An opera in progress
Center for Contemporary Opera Development Reading
The Flea Theater | NYC
I will be reading multiple roles in this wonderful new work by composer Kim D. Sherman and librettist Margaret Vandenburg. For more information, visit the Ada blog.
April 27 and 29 Narkissos
A Recital featuring singer Daniel Neer and harpist Alyssa Reit
The Tank Space for Performance and Visual Arts | NYC
Narkissos, (Greek: Νάρκισσος, or Narcissus), is a unique theatre piece that combines art song, spoken word and inventive staging to explore the multi-layered themes of narcissism and self-entitlement in contemporary America. Conceived by interdisciplinary artist Daniel Neer, this 90-minute staged recital for voice and harp investigates the mythological figures of Narcissus, Echo, and Nemesis and explores insightful modern-day interpretations to these fabled archetypes. Through original art song (tenor voice and harp) and narration, Narkissos seeks to compare and contrast facets of narcissism with specific focus on the individuals
struggle for identity and success in today’s culture. Directed by Ted Gorodetzky.
Narkissos features seven world premiere compositions by Chandler Carter, Martha Sullivan, Robinson McClellan, Jonathan David, Lauren Bernofsky, and Scott Gendel, with with additional music by Eleonor Sandresky, Jason Robert Taylor and Susan Botti.
Random Access Music has asked Narkissos (More information on 'Narkissos' in the previous listed event) to be part of the very first Queens New Music Festival, with a featured performance on Friday evening, May 11 at 7:30 pm:
eGarage Performance Space
44-02 23rd Street, Studio 104
Long Island City, NY 11101
Ticket information coming soon!
November 2012 Mata Hari
A hybrid opera by Matt Marks, Paul Peers, and Tina Mitchell
Workshop and Residency
Three Legged Dog Art + Technology | NYC
Mata Hari...Femme Fatale. Who is the woman, wife, mother, exotic dancer and spy behind the veils of fiction that make her so infamous? Acclaimed composer Matt Marks, stage director Paul Peers and award winning actor Tina Mitchell collaborate to create a hybrid opera about Mata Hari's life. With the release of her secret files by the French War Council, which include her letters, telegrams, military documents, and interrogation transcriptions, the world has the opportunity to hear Mata Hari's true voice. The cast includes Daniel Neer, Steve Hrycelak, Jeff Gavett, Peter Tantsits, Red Wierenga, Helen Yee and James Moore.
January 29 The Gyre
A chamber piece for baritone and harp
Epic poem by Daniel Neer set to music by Robinson McClellan
The Andrea Clearfield Salon | Philadelphia, PA
The Gyre is a poem I wrote in 2009 which explores the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: an enormous gyre of floating trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean which has a generalized area larger than the state of Texas. As a by-product of the Pacific coastal “kingdoms” with large 21st-century industrial footprints, the gyre symbolizes the silenced and wasteful death of Ophelia (from Shakespeare’s Hamlet), as observed by the mighty residents of Elsinore Castle, each a master of manipulation and ego-driven sanctimony. The performer of this text, in a struggle with his own definition of reality and sanity, attempts to describe the scene of the gyre, its shameful origin and unfathomable impact to both him and the unwitting accomplices of mankind. My search for a collaborative project with composer Robinson McClellan resulted in sharing the text of ‘The Gyre’ with the thought that an ethereal harp accompaniment to a high baritone vocal part would be the best choice as a setting. The resulting music expertly enhances my intent to dramatize the tragic beauty and immense wonder of the gyre – a colossal repercussion of global progress and modernity.
The Five Canticles of Benjamin Britten are masterful works that are rarely heard together in a single program. Though intended to be non-religious in content, each canticle captures a deep mysticism and intensely personal spirituality, demonstrating a mini-universe of Britten’s genius as one of the worlds leading 20th Century composers. With narration by actor Paul Hecht, tenor Daniel Neer is joined by Cathy Venable (piano), Hayden Dewitt (mezzo soprano), Phillip Cheah (baritone), Sara Della Posta (french horn) and Alyssa Reit (harp).
Program:
Canticle I: My Beloved is Mine and I am His (text by Francis Quarles)
Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac (text from the original Chester Miracle Play)
Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain (text by Edith Sitwell)
Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi (text by T.S. Eliot)
Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus (text by T.S. Eliot)
November 16, 2011 Pete Wyer: Numinous City
Commissioned by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Showcase Performance and Panel Discussion
Rubin Museum of Art | NYC
Numinous City, an Opera by Pete M. Wyer, is inspired by the extraordinary true story of Ngawang Sangdrol, a Tibetan nun imprisoned in Lhasa, Tibet at age 14. Sangdrol, along with other nuns, managed to record songs on a smuggled cassette player while in prison, the fame of which ultimately led to intercession by the government of George W. Bush and to her release. She ended up as a nanny in Brooklyn, New York.
This live concert performance of the work-in-progress is followed by panel discussion with the artists and Ngawang Sangdrol. The evening will be hosted by John Schaefer of WNYC’s New Sounds and Soundcheck.
Development of Numinous City has been commissioned by ROH2, the development arm of the Royal Opera House. It also receives support by American Opera Projects, the Rubin Museum of Art and the International Campaign for Tibet.
September 5 (Labor Day 2011) Old Time Vaudeville Show
James A. Dick Mighty Musical Monday Concert Series
The Historic Tennessee Theatre | Knoxville, Tennessee
Back by popular demand! Daniel returned to the beautiful Tennessee Theatre for another program of Tin Pan Alley, Vaudeville and Broadway favorites. Joined by luminous singer Elizabeth Peterson and Dr. Bill Snyder, the theatre’s house organist since 1979, accompanying on the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. For more information, visit: Tennessee Theatre
Take a peek at last years celebration…
June 23 and 25, 2011 Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus, role of Eisenstein
New Rochelle Opera | New Rochelle, NY
Daniel reprised his role of Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus with New Rochelle Opera. The production was directed by Camille Coppola with Gregory Ortega as conductor.
May 14, 2011 Benjamin Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31
Constantine Kitsopoulos, Music Director
Queens Symphony Orchestra | Queens, NY
Daniel Neer joined the Queens Symphony Orchestra's 58th Season for their Masterworks Concert No. 2:
The Voice Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto featuring Nan-Cheng Chen, cello - winner of QSO's 2010 Young Soloist Competition Serenade for Tenor, Horns & Strings, Op. 31 - Benjamin Britten
April 17, 2011 J.S. Bach: St. John Passion
South Carolina Philharmonic and Trinity Cathedral Choir
Jared C. Johnson, Conductor
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral | Columbia, SC
Daniel sang the role of Pilate as well as the baritone arias in Johann Sebastian Bach’s hauntingly beautiful St. John Passion BWV 245 with the South Carolina Philharmonic and Trinity Cathedral Choir, under the direction of Jared C. Johnson. This dramatic representation of the Gospel of John, composed by Bach in 1724, is an extravagant and unbridled version of the Passion, and is unique in its expressive immediacy that is at once highly emotional and powerfully meditative.
Sunday, March 27 at 3 pm
I will be singing songs of talented composer Donald Hagar at the 2011 Music With A View: a FREE music festival devoted to the discovery of new, fresh sound created and performed by contemporary musicians. Each event features the works of 2-3 emerging and/or mid-career composers and is followed by an open discussion between the artists and the audience.
March 18, 2011 Music from Mt. San Angelo
A Celebration of the Virginia Center for Creative Arts
The Phoenix Concerts
Church of Saint Matthew and Saint Timothy | NYC
Along with singers Eleanor Taylor, Gilda Lyons, Daniel Neer and pianist Robert Frankenberry, I performed songs by Andrea Clearfield, David Del Tredici and Mark Adamo. For more information, visit The Phoenix Concerts.
February 25, 2011 Arvo Pärt: Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem, Tenor Soloist
The Dessoff Choirs
Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square | NYC
A devout Eastern Orthodox Christian, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is best known among choral enthusiasts for a group of large-scale religious works from the 1980s and ’90s, the first of which is his beautiful and haunting Passion from 1982. Through the use of chant-like lines traded among soloists, chamber players, and choir, Pärt weaves a mesmerizing musical tapestry that tells the story of Jesus’ crucifixion.
February 3, 2011 Pete Wyer: Numinous City
Exposure Series, Linbury Studio Theatre
Royal Opera House Covent Garden | London, UK
Based on a true story, Numinous City follows the journey of Haren (a nun – played by Adey Grummet) and Ben (a monk – played by Daniel Neer) who have been arrested while attending a peaceful Tibetan demonstration. While imprisoned, they suffer the consequences of torture when a tape of their songs is smuggled out of the prison, reaching the hands of the Western media. Amid the backdrop of America’s justification and re-qualification of torture, a game of political chess determines who lives and who dies, as elements of the corporeal and spiritual world exist separately and meld together in one voice. Multitalented composer and writer Pete Wyer is joined by award-winning videographer Tobin Rothlein.
David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning the little match girl passion, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story and the passions of J.S. Bach, evokes a frosty landscape with sparse percussion played by the singers. It was be paired with a new work by British composer Martin Iddon, Hamadryades, for 5 voices and glass harmonica. The work is based on Josquin’s Deploration sur la mort d’Ockeghem, which was itself based on Ockeghem’s Deploration sur la mort de Binchois.
December 19 and 20, 2010 Holiday Concert with Vox Vocal Ensemble
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | NYC
Free Holiday Concert, December 19 and 20, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 5th Avenue at 89th Street
Celebrate the season with the joyous sound of holiday music in the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda. George Steel will conduct the Vox Vocal Ensemble and the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble in what has become a revered annual tradition for holiday enthusiasts of all ages. For more information, visit the Guggenheim Museum's website.
December 15, 2010 Mozart: Requiem in D Minor (K.626), Tenor Soloist
The Dalton Chorale, David Shuler, Music Director
Central Presbyterian Church | NYC
The Dalton Chorale presents Mass in D minor (K. 626) - W.A. Mozart
Wednesday, December 15th, 8 pm
Central Presbyterian Church, 593 Park Avenue in Manhattan
For more information, visit The Dalton Chorale
December 4, 2010 Philip Glass: Knee Plays from Einstein on the Beach
Darmstadt Essential Repertoire
Issue Project Room at the Old American Can Factory | Brooklyn, NY
Two cornerstones of New York minimalism are featured on the Essential Repertoire grand finale. Mary Rowell will perform her arrangement of the Knee Plays from Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s opera epic, Einstein on the Beach. The Knee Plays contain all of the main compositional material that gets expanded upon throughout the work, and Rowell has arranged them with supplemental material—the Bed Aria and music from Spaceship movements—to create a 45-minute suite for speakers, singers, and organists, led by the virtuosic arpeggiations of her violin.
Mercury Falling, music by Chandler Carter, libretto by Daniel Neer
Workshop Premiere at Long Leaf Opera Festival: June 2009
Stewart Theatre | Raleigh, NC
Long Leaf Opera presented a fully-staged workshop performances of Mercury Falling on June 19, 2009 at 8 pm and June 21 at 2 pm at the Stewart Theatre in Raleigh, NC. Singer/librettist Daniel Neer was joined by dancer Jake Szczypek under the direction of Ted Gorodetzky with choreography by Jody Oberfelder.
Mercury Falling, monodrama for tenor, solo dancer and chamber ensemble, is a fanciful interpretation of the last night in the life of Parisian sculptor Jean-Louis Brian (1805-1864). In the winter of early 1864, Brian attempted to protect his clay statue of Mercury in Repose from the bitter cold by covering it with his only blankets – and subsequently froze to death beside it. Mercury Falling depicts Brian’s feverish attempts to finish his sculpture for the impending Salon exhibition. As the temperature drops and he succumbs to hypothermic hallucinations, he is lured into a fantasy world in which the god Mercury comes to life. Incorporating themes of the artist’s struggle for meaning, recognition and even survival, Mercury Falling is a monologue that shifts between reality and an allegorical fantasy world. The vocalist portrays the artist through vignettes of music and text (both sung and spoken) in free-association. Accompanying him on stage is a dancer/model portraying the life-sized Mercury. The chamber ensemble alternately evokes the freezing, desperate climate of the artist’s studio and his increasingly grandiose expectations for his work of art.
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Odes to Earth and Air
A new multimedia chamber opera by Sidney Boquiren and Daniel Neer
Workshop presentation at Adelphi University: October 2010
Adelphi University | Garden City, NY
Odes to Earth and Air Composer: Sidney Boquiren
Librettist: Daniel Neer
Videographer and Director: Ted Gorodetzky Singers: Abigail Fischer and Daniel Neer
Odes to Earth and Air is a multi-media chamber opera focusing on the tumultuous relationship of 19th century sculptor Camille Claudel and her brother, the author and diplomat Paul Claudel. Combining chamber opera (mezzo soprano and tenor) with film media, it presents an imagined dialogue between the iconic Claudel siblings, whose soulful and reflective diatribe on their lives are skillfully reflected in an accompanying narrative of film images. Odes to Earth and Air attempts to deconstruct the driving motivation of two powerful cultural and intellectual giants who helped catapult the Symbolist movement of art and literature in early 20th century Paris, and explores the factors of gender, religion, politics and family relations in their artistic endeavors and quest for personal fulfillment.
The Interview, by Daniel Neer
World premiere at New Works 3 Short Play Festival: April 6–9, 2011
Richmond Shepard Theater | NYC
My play, The Interview, is a 15-minute one act drama about women in art and focuses on themes of nudity, racism, objectification, elitism and sexism in the art world. Split into two scenes from vastly different periods (Paris, France 1891 and Brooklyn, New York 2011), the overlapping action explores the psyche of four women with contrasting perspectives of the art world, and their subsequent struggle for identity and success.
Directed by Ted Gorodetzky, The Interview has been chosen by co-producers Richmond Shepard and Daniel Hicks to be premiered at the ‘New Works 3’ Short Play Festival in Manhattan’s Flatiron district. Featuring Evangelia Kingsley, Mary Leggio, Lorna Haughton and Laura Michelle Cleary.
For tickets, contact the theatre's Box Office: 212.684.2690
Serenade and Elegy
multimedia recital for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Baritone and Piano
in development
Serenade and Elegy, a theatrical song recital for three singers and piano, explores themes of love, politics, race and human rights during the turbulent Philippine-American War (1899 - 1903) as told through the exotic and haunting songs of 19th-century French composer Henri Duparc. Containing texts which invoke romantic serenades, exotic lands, a secretive affair and the saber-rattle of impending battle, Duparc's songs will be arranged as a story-telling device to portray views of war, politics and love between three individuals during this turbulent moment in history. Using original cuttings of speeches, letters and newspaper articles, along with an original story written by Daniel Neer, Serenade and Elegy melds classical music, theater and history into a unique theatrical presentation.
Conceived, produced and written by Daniel Neer
With Mezzo-soprano, Clarissa Ocampo, and Soprano, Judith Barnes
Directed by Ted Gorodetzky
Musical direction by Lloyd Arriola
on broadway:
Baz Luhrmann’s critically acclaimed production of Puccini’s 'La Bohème', conducted by Constantine Kitsopoulos, at The Broadway Theatre
| The National Theatre’s production of 'Coram Boy', by Helen Edmundson (after the book by Jamila Gavin), directed by Melly Still at The Imperial Theatre
legitimate stage:
'The Head of Mary' by Tanaka Chikao, for The Hiroshima Project | 'The Elephant' by Minor Betsuyaku, directed by Sonoko Kawahara, New York Theater Workshop | Robert Fagle’s translation of Homer’s 'The Iliad and The Odyssey' for Santa Fe’s Lensic Theatre, directed by Kathryn Walker | Diedre Murray and Sonoko Kawara’s reading of 'The Rose Project', Music Theatre Group at The Flea Theatre | 'Fangs' by Diedre Murray and Cornelius Eddy at The Apollo Theatre Salon Series | 'Untitled 10-minute Christmas Play' by Marina Barry, 'Kid Stuff' and 'Swinging Blindly' both by Ted Gorodetzky, for ToteM Gambol | 'Marvels' by Conrad & Elizabeth Bishop, 72nd Street Theatre Workshop
musical theater/operetta/opera:
'Ellen Craft' by Sherry Boone and Sean Jeremy Palmer at The Cell |
'The Survival Show' by Steve Aprahamian for Theatre 80 St. Marks |
'Anais' by Susan Hurley, Center for Contemporary Opera |
'The Secret Agent' by Michael Dellaira for Center for Contemporary Opera |
Galileo in 'Stars Through a Telescope' | main
'Mercury Falling' (librettist and performer), directed by Ted Gorodetzky, Long Leaf Opera Festival | 'Strange Fruit' at Harlem School for the Arts, in association with New York City Opera | Benvenuto Cellini in Kurt Weill’s 'The Firebrand of Florence' | Aeneas in 'Dido and Aeneas' | Tevye in 'Fiddler on the Roof' | Carl Linden in Noel Coward’s 'Bitter Sweet' | Danilo in Lehar’s 'The Merry Widow' | Kander and Ebb’s 'The World Goes ‘Round' | Monteverdi’s 'Il Combatimento di Tancredi e Clorinda' (Director and Testo) for Metropolis Ensemble | Figaro in Rossini’s 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia' | Lutz in 'The Student Prince' | Marcello and Schaunard in Puccini’s 'La Bohème' | Eisenstein in 'Die Fledermaus' | Dancairo in 'Carmen' | King Hildabrand in 'Princess Ida' | Testaccio in 'A Night in Venice' | Silvio in 'Pagliacci' | Pimprinette in 'The Bayadere' | Bumerli in 'The Chocolate Soldier' | Prince Basil in 'The Count of Luxembourg' | Robert in 'The New Moon' | Sergeant Meryll in 'The Yeomen of the Guard' | Don Medigua in Sousa’s 'El Capitan' | Peppi in 'Song of Norway' | Sid in 'Albert Herring' | Page in 'Merry Wives of Windsor' | Paul Fontaine in 'The Desert Song' | Julian in 'La Verbena de la Paloma' | Bartley in 'Riders to the Sea' | Ludwig in 'The Grand Duke' | Thespis in 'Thespis' (Gilbert, Sullivan and Quade Winter) | Olson in 'Too Many Sopranos' by Edwin Penhorwood
concert hall:
Handel 'Messiah' with Westchester Oratorio Society |
Britten 'Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac' with Vertical Players Repertory |
Orff 'Camina Burana' with The Akron Symphony |
In recital with The Lotte Lehmann Foundation |
Beethoven 'Mass in C Major' with Westchester Oratorio Society |
Mozart 'Coronation Mass' at Carnegie Hall with New York Chamber Ensemble | Haydn 'Lord Nelson Mass' at Carnegie Hall | Benjamin Britten’s 'Serenade for Tenor and Horn', Inaugural Concert of the Metropolis Ensemble | 'Mozart Requiem', Riverside Symphonia | Mozart 'Missa Brevis' and 'Regina Coeli', Alice Tully Hall | 'Song of the Whale' by John Cage, the “When Morty Met John…” Festival | Handel 'Messiah', Gotham City Baroque Orchestra | Bach 'Mass in B Minor', Gotham City Baroque Orchestra | Haydn 'Missa St. Bernardi von Offida', Rebel Baroque Orchestra | Mozart 'Great Mass in C Minor', Rebel Baroque Orchestra | Bach 'St. John Passion', Gotham City Baroque Orchestra | Handel 'Messiah' with Charlotte Symphony | 'Duruflé Requiem' with Windsor Symphony Orchestra | 'Historia di Job' by Carissimi at Aspen Music Festival | Haydn 'Heiligmesse' at Berkshire Choral Festival | 'Italienisches Liederbuch' by Hugo Wolf, Royal Academy of Music | 'Charm Me Asleep' by Daniel Pinkham at Aspen Music Festival | 'Psyche' by Manuel de Falla, Aspen Music Festival | Soloist with 'VOX Vocal Ensemble' conducted by George Steel at The Guggenheim
new music:
Pete Wyer's 'Numinous City' at Royal Opera House Covent Garden ROH2 |
'Odes to Earth and Air' (librettist) with composer Sidney Boquiren |
'The Gyre' (poet) with composer Robinson McClellan |
'Mercury Falling' (librettist and performer), composed by Chandler Carter, Long Leaf Opera Festival | Stephen Schwartz’s new opera 'Séance on a Wet Afternoon' at American Opera Projects | 'The Kallyope Yell' by Jonathan David, C4 | John Zorn’s 'Hermeticum Sacrum' at Miller Theatre | 'Senbazuru' by Pete Wyer in Juilliard’s Peter J. Sharp Theatre | 'Heebie Jeebies' by Laura Karpman in Alice Tully Hall | 'Songs of Bygone Days' by Stephen Danker, at Aspen Music Festival | Douglas Cuomo’s 'Arjuna’s Dilemma' for Vox on the Edge at The Skirball Center | The Kitchen’s workshop production of 'Shangri-La', with music by Susie Ibarra and libretto by Yusef Komunyakaa, conducted by Tania León | Joseph Diebes 'Strange Birds' first at Gale Gates et al. in DUMBO, then at The Tramway in Glasgow | 'The Walled-Up Wife' by Gilda Lyons for American Opera Projects | 'The Golden Gate' by Conrad Cummings at American Opera Projects | 'Reflections of the Watermoon' by Patricia Burgess, Merkin Concert Hall | 'Cymbeline' by Chris Berg, Greenwich House Music School | 'The Iliad/The Odyssey' by Diedre Murray, Santa Fe’s Lensic Theatre
jazz/cabaret:
'Vaudeville Hits' with Bill Snyder and The Mighty Wurlitzer, Knoxville's Historic Tennessee Theatre | Frontman of the original 'Jazz Fauré Project', Triad Theater, and Detour jazz club NYC | Art Institute of Chicago Summer Garden Series in McKinlock Court | 'The Age of Elegance', SoHo Grand Hotel | 'Six Monologues of a Young Man' in Dublin, Ohio
tv/radio/discography:
2004 American Theatre Wing Tony Awards, Radio City Music Hall | 'Everything Old is New Again – The Name Game' WBAI-FM | 'The Chocolate Soldier', 'The Arcadians', 'The Bayadere', 'A Night in Venice' for Newport Classic Records | 'La Verbena de la Paloma' for Albany Records | Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s 'La Bohème' for Dreamworks Records
“…it is Daniel Neer as Prince Basil who steals the show whenever he comes on. Usually on the verge of near hysteria about being in love, Neer has a whole trunkful of perfectly timed gestures and expressions, accompanied by a wide-ranging voice that keeps the audience in stitches.”
- The Alliance Review
“..the outstanding Daniel Neer commanded high praise, his strong, distinctive baritone comfortably combining with graceful, inventive acting and comic timing...”
- Opera News
“Rarely have I seen such an “over-the-top” performance as that of Daniel Neer as Thespis. The man was absolutely manic with energy; chewing the scenery, clawing the air, all stops out. It was a stunning performance that amazed all, exhausting with laughter.”
- Opera Magazine
“Daniel Neer creates a flamboyant character prone to overdoing every inflection, something of a cross between Dom DeLuise and Steve Martin.”
- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Dominating the stage with a flick of a raised eye-brow or a supercilious sneer, the mulit-talented Daniel Neer made the wily Smith/Simplicitas into a comic masterpiece…he was also impressive with his healthy, bright baritone.”
- Opera Magazine
“Daniel Neer here shows formidable gifts as a comic. His performance almost goes over the top, blending bits of Frank Morgan and Rip Taylor with Nathan Lane – style antics, but he is a high energy delight.”
- The Clevaland Plain Dealer
“Daniel Neer, singing a blustery Cellini, easily caught the artist’s pride in his art and, with a fine touch of comedy, Cellini’s self importance. For the serious, romantic side of the character, Neer warmed up his bright, strong baritone with telling effect.”
- The American Record Guide
“Daniel Neer, who plays the prissy and pompous valet to the prince, only gets better as the night moves along…a virtuoso high-camp performance.”
- Akron Beacon Journal
“Daniel Neer plays Carl Linden with matinee-idol authority. Neer’s baritone is free and open, superbly suited to the music’s romance.”
- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“As the warrior smitten with chocolate, Daniel Neer drop quips with delightful nonchalance and fulfills the music’s rich demands. His light touch at key moments helps keep the proceedings on their exuberant forward course.”
- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Daniel Neer stole the show with a boldly sung Lt. Bumerli, as charming and heroic a chocolate soldier as one could wish.”
- Opera Magazine
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