Originally from Bakersfield, California, Christopher Robert Briggs Rodriguez is an emerging baritone whose work spans a diverse repertoire. On the opera stage he has recently performed the roles of Inspector Lestrade (Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant), Pandolfe (Cendrillon), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Dancaïre (Carmen), Shadow Edgar (Tell Tale Heart), Antonio and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Sam (Trouble in Tahiti), and Narciso. (Bless Me, Ultima) He has also created the roles Houdini and Christian in Robert Paterson's New York Stories, Stanton in Kenneth Froelich's State of Jefferson and Everybody in Evan Mack's Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena.