Baritone Charles Crowley has received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in vocal performance from the University of Oregon and Western Washington University respectively. He has performed in many operetta, musical theater and opera productions in the Seattle area, singing with the Seattle Opera Chorus in Verdi’s Don Carlos and performing the principal roles of Lt. Bumerli (The Chocolate Soldier), Ko-Ko (The Mikado), Florian (Princess Ida) and Giuseppe (The Gondoliers) with the New Savoy Opera. He has also sung the roles of Gorgibus and The Magistrate in Vocal Arts Northwest’s concert production of Signor Deluso. Charles has studied voice with Erich Parce, Elizabeth Moore and Marianne Weltmann.

Musical theater roles include Reverend Crisparkle in Drood, Roberts in The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Angus MacGuffie in Brigadoon and the Three Ministers in Six Wives, all with Village Theatre; also Paul Fontaine in The Desert Song and the “Canaan Days” singer in Joseph with Civic Light Opera, as well as Sir Harry in Once Upon a Mattress and Cocky in The Roar of the Greasepaint with Second Story Repertory. Other favorite roles have included Cinderella’s Prince and The Wolf in Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Studio East benefit production) and Freddy in My Fair Lady (Driftwood Players).