Sean Pflueger- Composer/Opera Singer
Opera Singer
Sean Pflueger- Bass
Sean Pflueger, bass-baritone, has sung with many companies in the Washington area.
Broadway World said "Sean Pflueger also played the role... with an entrancing and totally absorbing Bass-baritone voice."
DC Theater Scene said of a recent performance, "Pflueger… plays Rosenblum with hapless innocence and body language as expressive as his voice.”
Selected Roles: Sarastro in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, The Count in John Phillip Sousa’s Desiree, Bob in Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief, Masetto/Il Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Marquis in Verdi's La traviata, Nerino in Handel's Guilio Cesare, Pooh-Bah and Pish-Tush in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, Lord Mountararat in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe, Foreman in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, Mars in Offenbach’s Orpheus and the Underworld, Alcindoro/Benoit in Puccini’s La Boheme, Chevalier in Victor Herbert’s Madeleine, Rambaldo in Puccini’s La rondine, Betto and Master Spinelloccio/Amatio di Nicolao in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, St. Peter in Penhorwood’s Too Many Sopranos, David Drayton in Pflueger's Children in the Mist, Thom in Pflueger's Brunch with the Boys, and Ethan Rosenbloom in Pflueger's Do Not Disturb.
Concert/Oratorio: Bass solos in Handel's Messiah, Bach’s Canata 59, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Mass in the Time of War and Faure's Requiem among others. Mr. Pflueger was 2011 Baritone winner of the City Choir of Washington’s Young Artist Competition. He has also sung in "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" Program with The One and Only Santa Claus.
Mr. Pflueger regularly performs with the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center, Maryland Lyric Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, and Washington Concert Opera as a member of the chorus.
Awards
Capital Fringe Festival * Best Ensemble, Winner * 2023, Brunch with the Boys
Really Spicy Opera* Donald Look Memorial Fellowship* 2023
College Light Opera Company * New Work Initiative, Winner 2018 * One Act Opera
Arts Council of Fairfax County * Strauss Fellow Grant, Winner 2012 * music composition and performance
City Choir of Washington * Young Artist Competition Winner 2011 * Conductor Robert Shafer
Roles
Grounded (Fighter Pilot #3, Mall Soloist) World Premiere, Jeanine Tesori
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Pablo), Concert, Brian Wilbur Grundstrom
The Magic Flute (Sarastro)
La Boheme (Alcindoro/Benoit)
La rondine (Rambaldo)
Tales of Hoffman (Crespel)
Otello (Ludovico)
Gianni Schicchi (Betto and Master Spinelloccio/Amatio di Nicolao)
Il tabarro (Talpa)
Tosca (Sacristan)
The Old Maid and the Thief (Bob)
Cosi Fan Tutte (Gugliemo)
Don Giovanni (Il Commendatore and Masetto)
La traviata (Marquis),
Madeleine (Chevalier)
Guilio Cesare (Nerino)
A Family Reunion (Ollie Jr.)
Too Many Sopranos (St. Peter)
Brunch with the Boys (Thom)
Do Not Disturb (Ethan Rosenbloom)
Children in the Mist (David Drayton)
Operetta/Musical Theater Roles:
Desiree (The Count)
The American Maid (The Duke)
The Mikado (Pooh-Bah and Pish-Tush)
Iolanthe (Lord Mountararat)
Trial by Jury (Foreman)
Orpheus and the Underworld (Mars)
Romance from Broadway to Lincoln Center (Richard)
Emma REDUX (Mr. Weston/Robert Martin) * Reading
Oneida (Edward Inslee) * Reading
Where you go, I will go (Ensemble) * Workshop
Concert Work
Fauré Requiem * Bass Soloist * The City Choir of Washington
Mozart Requiem * Bass Soloist *The Harford Choral Society
WAM 2! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart *Leporello/Guglielmo * The In Series/The Washington Ballet Studio Co
Missa in Tempore Belli, Haydn * Bass Soloist * The City Choir of Washington
Mozart on U St * Bass Soloist * The In Series
Third Cantata from the Christmas Oratorio * Bass Soloist * The Bach Concert Series (Baltimore, MD)
WAM! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * Osmin/Papageno/Figaro * The In Series/The Washington Ballet
Messiah * Bass Soloist * Greater Washington Stake
Law & Order: SOU (Special Opera Unit) * Soloist * Washington Savoyards
Victorian Lyric Opera Summer Concert * Soloist * Victorian Lyric Opera
Some Enchanted Evening * Soloist * Bel Cantanti Opera
Rockville Arts Sampler * Soloist * Victorian Lyric Opera
Master Pieces of Bel Canto * Soloist * Bel Cantanti Opera
Viva La France Concert * Chorus * Bel Cantanti Opera
Belle Nuit: an Evening of Song * Soloist * Two Blue Sopranos
A Mozart Celebration * Featured * James Madison University Theater
Night at the Opera * Soloist * Virginia Concert & Opera Theatre
Opera Chorus
OPERA CHORUS:
Washington National Opera 2009- , Wolf Trap Opera 2018- , Washington Concert Opera 2015- , Maryland Lyric Opera 2018-2023, Virginia Opera (2008)
Aida, Un ballo un mascera, Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, Cenerentola, Champion, Don Carlo, Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, Eugene Onegin, The Force of Destiny, Grounded, La fille du régiment, Hamlet, Guntram, Götterdämmerung, Leonora, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Magic Flute, Maometto II, Maria di Rohan, Moby Dick, Norma, Orphee, Rigoletto, Samson et Dalila, Silent Night, La straniera, Il tabarro, La Traviata, Turandot, Il trovatore, Semiramide