Bass-baritone Charles Perry Sprawls is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, where he performed as a chorus member in a number of performances with the late Robert Shaw, including the annual ‘Christmas with Robert Shaw’ concerts and as part of the Robert Shaw Festival Singers– including solos on the recording of A Robert Shaw Christmas – Angels on High on the Telarc label. In New York, he has made appearances with the associate choruses of both the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera. He has also appeared as a member of the ensemble of Sweeney Todd in Concert with the New York Philharmonic, and most recently portrayed Ulysses S. Grant in Virgil Thomson’s The Mother Of Us All in critically acclaimed performances at the historic Hudson Opera House.
