Elijah Chester Biography

won a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Opera Soloist for Susanna and appeared as a principal soloist on the Dove Award-winning recording of Our Saviour Emmanuel last year. He performed principal roles at the Metropolitan Opera in I Pagliacci, Ghost Of Versailles, and Ariadne Auf Naxos, and portrayed Lindoro in The Italian In Algeri (San Francisco Opera), Rodolpho in La Boheme (Avery Fisher Hall), and Beppe in I Pagliacci (Kennedy Center and Metropolitan Opera productions). His Met appearances in Ghost Of Versailles and I Pagliacci have been recorded by EMI Records and filmed for public television.