Erich Parce, stage director, is a frequent guest vocalist at Music of Remembrance, American baritone Erich Parce has performed and recorded MOR's world premieres of Paul Schoenfield's 2003 Pulitzer-finalist Camp Songs and Lori Laitman's "Holocaust 1944" and The Seed of Dream. Turning his opera expertise to stage direction, Mr. Parce has recently directed productions of La bohème, La Traviata, The Magic Flute, Gianni Schicchi, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Susannah. Next season he will direct Le nozze di Figaro for Washington East Opera, Rigoletto for Fargo-Moorehead Opera and Carmen for Skagit Opera. As a baritone, Parce has sung at opera companies throughout North America and Europe, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Greater Miami Opera, L'Opera de Nice and L'Opera de Montreal. His repertoire ranges from the dramatic lead roles of Carlisle Floyd's operas The Passion of Jonathan Wade and Of Mice and Men (at Miami Opera and San Diego Opera), to the comedy of Dandini in La Cenerentola and Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro (at Italy's Spoleto Festival and Charleston). Seattle Opera highlights include Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, the Count in Le nozze di Figaro and the father in Hansel and Gretel. A regular guest of the Seattle Symphony, Parce was heard recently in Handel's Messiah and Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. Past seasons have included Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and David Diamond's On Sacred Ground (recorded on the Delos label), and he has performed Carmina Burana many times with the Seattle Symphony, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the Seattle Chorale Company. The Bellevue resident's concert repertoire also includes Mendelssohn's Elijah, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony, and the Brahms and Fauré Requiems.