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A California Bay Area native tenor Joshua La Force has delighted in performing opera, operetta and musical theater. A self proclaimed "American Operetta Specialist" and a great lover of the works of Gilbert & Sullivan as well as other operetta greats such as Friml, Romberg and Kern he has appeared around the San Francisco Bay Area in Herbert's Naughty Marietta and Mlle. Modiste (as Etienne) with Lyric Theatre of San Jose and Lehar's The Merry Widow (Cascada) with both Lyric Theatre and Opera San Jose. He also recently appeared in his favorite G&S roles in Houston Texas with the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston in The Pirates of Penzance (Frederix),Yeoman of the Guard (Col. Faifax),The Gondoliers (Marco), Trial by Jury (Edwin) and Ruddigore (Richard Dauntless) and in the San Francisco Bay Area with Lamplighter's productions of The Mikado (Nanki-poo), Princess Ida (Prince Hilarion), H.M.S. Pinafore (Ralph) and The Pirates of Penzance (Frederic). Among his operatic credits include Eugene Onegin (Triquet), Falstaff (Dr. Caijus), Manon (Guillot), Don Pasquale (Ernesto) and La Cenerentola (Don Ramiro) with Opera San Jose.

Equally at home on the concert stage Mr. La Force has appeared with the United Nations Associations International Choir, Sacramento Philharmonic and Oakland Symphony as a soloist, the San Jose Wind Symphony as a guest singer and narrator, with the Andrea Fulton Chorale in Yosemite CA, on tour coast to coast with Savoy Express (a G&S highlights potpourri), with Berkeley Opera and an American Operetta Concert series with Lamplighters in San Francisco.

Mr. La Force currently makes his home in Houston Texas .