Baritone Adam Dengler sings regularly with the North Carolina Opera (NCO) Chorus, NCO About Town and NCO Education programs (Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?), and Voices: The Chapel Hill Community Chorus. Operatic roles include the title role in Don Giovanni (Mozart), and Ping in Turandot (Puccini) with the North Carolina Summer Opera and Fiorello in The Barber of Seville (Rossini) with NCO upcoming in 2024.
Adam sings in the chorus of North Carolina Opera’s recent productions and has had comprimario roles such as Prisoner (Fidelio) and Villager (Pagliacci). Recent engagements include the Bass soloist in the Chapel Hill 53rd Annual Open Sing Handel’s Messiah and Théodore Dubois’s The Seven Last Words of Christ. Adam has also premiered music by local composers including Roger Petrich’s “Facing West” and Jeremy Jennings “Elevator”. Adam is a longtime member of Voices: The Chapel Hill Community Chorus. Bass solos with Voices include Mass in D major by Antonín Dvořák and Dan Locklair’s Requiem. Previous stage credits include All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, and Jean Valjean in Les Misérables. Adam studied voice in Arizona with Dr. Andrea Pitman Will for two years, where he was placed 1st in the Adult Beginner division and was voted ‘Most Promising Young Singer’ at the Arizona National Association of Teachers of Singing classical competition.
Adam is a Research Engineer at Redbud Labs and has a Ph.D. in Biomedical engineering from the Joint BME Department of UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State.