Dan Snyder is becoming an indispensable performer in the epic scheme of grand opera. The 2006-2007 season saw him in two productions of Wagner’s Ring Cycle as Siegfried, first in Long Beach California, then in Pittsburgh where Musical America noted that ‘his ebullient virility was irresistible’, and the LA Times’ Mark Swed commended him for ‘plenty of testosterone and good tone’. Dan played Jimmy Mahoney in Kurt Weill’s ‘Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny’ with Opera Boston, garnering appreciative reviews in the Wall Street Journal - ‘Dan Snyder played Jimmy like a man bent on self destruction’, the Boston Globe - ‘sung with courage and conviction’, and the Boston Herald - ‘sang with distinction’. 2006 also saw his debut as Don Jose in Carmen, which has become a staple with the tenor taking on the role in Pittsburgh, Helena Montana, and Shreveport within six months. The Shreveport Times called his performance ‘emotionally tumultuous’ and ‘devastating’. The same year Dan traveled to Berlin where he recorded another dramatic work as ‘Jacob’, ‘King Saul’, and ‘the Dark Angel’ in the sprawling Kurt Weill opera ‘The Eternal Road’. The recording with maestro Gerard Schwarz conducting the Berliner Rundfunk Orchester will be released in 2008 on Naxos. He completes the 2007 opera season with his first performance as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto in Charlottesville, Virginia. He begins the 2007-2008 season by assuming the demanding role of ‘Hoffmann’ in a new production of ‘The Tales of Hoffmann’ at Virginia Opera.

Valued for his innate musicality, Mr. Snyder enjoys a parallel career as a concert singer privileged to appear in some of the nation’s finest halls. In 2008 he adds a Carnegie Hall debut as the tenor soloist in Verdi’s Requiem, going on to performances of the work in Oakland, California, and with the North Carolina Masterworks Chorale as well. 2008 also demonstrates his talent as a versatile interpreter, when he appears as the swan with the Toledo Symphony in Carmina Burana, and in the celebrated annual Annapolis/Hood College festival setting of Handel’s Messiah.
In 2006 he helped ring in the new year at the Seattle Symphony in performances of the Beethoven 9th Symphony. Other concert credits include Handel’s Messiah with the Kennedy Center Orchestra, the Dvorak Stabat Mater with the National Philharmonic, the Rossini Stabat Mater with the Winterpark Bach Festival, the Mozart Requiem with the Washington Bach Consort, and a rare performance of Frank Martin’s In Terra Pax with the National Cathedral Choral Society commemorating the opening of the World War Two monument in Washington DC. Among other venues hosting the tenor have been the Vermont Symphony, the Springfield Massachusetts Symphony and the Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra.

As a recitalist, Dan has been a regular performer in The Embassy Series in Washington D.C. He has sung at the Czech embassy, the Hungarian embassy, the Austrian embassy, as well as many recitals of art song across the country.