Ara Berberian In 1963 he was promoted from the chorus to singing roles with the NYCO, beginning with Leandro in "The Love for Three Oranges" in April of that year. He sang several more roles with NYCO through 1967, including Collatinus in "The Rape of Lucretia", the Commandant in "Don Giovanni", the Major-Domo in "Capriccio", Osmin in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", and Tiresias in "Oedipus rex" among others. He later returned to the NYCO in 1977 to create the role of Gene Henderson in the world premiere in Leon Kirchner's "Lily". From 1965-1968 Berberian was committed to the San Francisco Opera,
Conal Coad Fleming, Haruhisa Handa, and Roberto Abbado at Tokyo Global Concert at the New National Theatre Tokyo in Japan. Conal has performed in "Le nozze di Figaro", "Così fan tutte", "Il Seraglio", "Die Zauberflöte", "Don Giovanni", "Don Carlo", "Falstaff", "I vespri siciliani", "Aida", "Rigoletto", "Billy Budd", "Peter Grimes", "The Rape of Lucretia", "A Midsummernight's Dream", "Let's Make an Opera", "Albert Herring", "La damnation de Faust", "Fidelio", "The Barber of Seville", "L'heure espagnole", "Lucia di Lammermoor", "Don Pasquale", "L'elisir d'amore", "L'italiana in Algeri", "Il turco in Italia", "The Queen of Spades", "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria", "Norma", "Katya Kabanova", "Roméo et Juliette",