Praise for Rodell Rosel as Monastatos with Seattle Opera

Mar 11, 2025

“Tenor Rodell Rosel was an appropriately menacing Monostatos, unmistakably disguised as Nosferatu.” – 

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“Monostatos, is sung by Rodell Rosel and manages to bring more true emotion to what is too often just a stock role: the older man who wants to marry the young soprano. I didn’t want him to win, but I also felt bad he didn’t” – 

Theatre review: The Magic Flute from Seattle Opera at McCaw Hall

“Rodell Rosel made a comically macabre impression as Pamina’s tormentor Monostatos, freshly imagined as an Expressionist nightmare” – 

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