During the 2002-2003 season, the busy baritone was featured by the Edmonton Opera as Silvio in Pagliacci and reprised his role as Figaro for Pacific Opera Victoria in Le Nozze di Figaro. He sang the role of Danilo in Lehar's Merry Widow for Orchestra London. Also on his schedule were concerts devoted to the music of Richard Rodgers with the Hamilton Philharmonic, Carmina Burana with the Amadeus Choir and the local première of Christos Hatzis' Kyrie in a return engagement with Soundstreams. Composer Ian McAndrew cast Mr. Tees in the première of his new opera, Cassandra, heard in Hamilton and Toronto. This coming season he will be in Vancouver for Sonora in La Fanciulla del West as well as Rossini's Figaro in Opera York's Barber of Seville.
For the Canadian Opera, he was featured in mainstage productions of Otello, Billy Budd and La Fanciulla del West. Heard also as Hercules/Orestes in Giasone, he appeared as soloist in the Altamira Festival and starred as Tarquinius in the Ensemble production of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, repeating his interpretation of the Etruscan general later in Amsterdam. Additional mainstage assignments include the Marquis in La Traviata and he covered the roles of Marcello in La Bohème, Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni and Belcore in L'Elisir d'Amore. As a concert artist, he appeared with Susan Haig and the Windsor Symphony in an evening of opera highlights and with the Esprit Orchestra in the première of Londonsong. Further concerts included a Robbie Burns evening for the Aldeburgh Connection and Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass for Robert Cooper and Chorus Niagara.
The tall Opera McGill alumnus sang Escamillo for Toronto's Summer Opera Lyric Theatre and he was chillingly convincing as King Conachar in Opera in Concert's revival of Healey Willan's Deirdre. Mr. Tees was in Humbach, Germany where his roles were Monterone in Rigoletto, Sacristan in Tosca and Fiorello in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, later repeating Fiorello for the Canadian Opera Company. Three times a Canadian Champion rower, Mr. Tees has summers at Chautauqua among his credits and his music theatre roles include Sky Masterson (Guys and Dolls), Carl Magnus (A Little Night Music), Pooh Bah (The Mikado) and Lun Tha (The King and I). On screen Mr. Tees has been seen as John Smithson in England's Film Four production of True Blue.