Tenor Daniel Fosha (Sam Kaplan) is a Colorado Springs native based in Denver who, with the help of Opera Theatre of the Rockies and its founder Martile Rowland, has been able to launch a successful national career on the opera, musical theatre and concert stages. Recent performances included the roles of Marius in Les Miserables and George Bailey in the A Wonderful Life for the Arvada Center for the Arts and Goro in Opera Colorado's Madama Butterfly. Later this season, Mr. Fosha travels to Urbana, Illinois for a concert performance of Der Rosenkavalier as Valzacchi with the Sinfonia Da Camera. In Colorado Springs, Daniel has been a featured soloist for the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and performed principal roles for the Fine Arts Center, UCCS Theatreworks and, of course, Opera Theatre of the Rockies. Daniel got his start with the historic Colorado Opera Festival where he appeared as the tenor Armed Guard in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Remendado in Carmen, and Missail in Boris Godunov. In 2002 he won second place in the Metropolitan Opera Regional Finals in Denver, and was a finalist in the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition. His studies include a summer at EPCASO, in Oderzo, Italy, under the tutelage of Claudia Pinza and apprenticeships with both the Chautauqua Opera and Central City Opera. He received his Master's degree in music performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder.