Das Rheingold

Bass-Baritone
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Wotan, Das Rheingold; Soloist, 60th Anniversary Concert & Gala

Hometown: New Orleans, LA
Seattle Opera Debut: Telramund, Lohengrin (’94)
Previously at Seattle Opera: High Priest of Dagon, Samson and Delilah in Concert (’23); The Dutchman, The Flying Dutchman (’16); Scarpia, Tosca (’15); Wotan, The Ring (’05, ’09,’13); Don Pizarro, Fidelio (’12)
Engagements: Wotan, The Ring (Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, The Atlanta Opera); Don Pizarro, Fidelio (San Francisco Opera); The Wanderer, Siegfried (Bregenzer Festspiele); Wotan, Die Walküre (Royal Swedish Opera, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra); El Capitán, Florencia en el Amazonas (The Metropolitan Opera); Scarpia, Tosca (San Diego Opera, Palm Beach Opera)

Last Updated: February 2024

Tenor
At Seattle Opera in 2024/25: Freddie Ballentine and Kunal Lahiry in Concert

Hometown: Norfolk, VA
Seattle Opera Debut: Armored Man, The Magic Flute (’17)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Loge, Das Rheingold ('23); Frederick Ballentine in Recital (’20); Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's Yardbird (’20); Don José, Carmen (’19)
Engagements: Sportin’ Life, Porgy and Bess (The Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera, and Dutch National Opera); High Priest of Amon, Akhnaten (Los Angeles Opera); Loge, Das Rheingold (English National Opera); Sam Polk, Susannah (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); The Trainer, Grounded (Washington National Opera); Tybalt, Roméo et Juliette (The Metropolitan Opera)

Last Updated: June 2024

Baritone
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Alberich, Das Rheingold

Hometown: Cut and Shoot, TX
Seattle Opera Debut: Conte di Luna, Il trovatore (’19)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Alfio/Tonio, Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana Highlights Recital (’20)
Engagements: Rigoletto, Rigoletto (Houston Grand Opera); Mr. Potter, It’s a Wonderful Life (English National Opera); Bluebeard, Bluebeard’s Castle (Atlanta Opera, Theatre of Sound, Edinburgh International Festival); Alberich, Das Rheingold (Dallas Opera); Saint Francois, Saint François d’Assise (Staatsoper Stuttgart); Richard Nixon, Nixon in China (Staatsoper Stuttgart)

Last Updated: May 2023

Baritone
At Seattle Opera in 2024/25: Tonio, Pagliacci

Hometown: New York, NY
Seattle Opera Debut: Baron Scarpia, Tosca (’21)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Donner, Das Rheingold ('23); Giorgio Germont, La traviata ('23); Marcello, La bohème (’21)
Engagements: Iago, Otello (MET Opera Orchestra Tour); Álvaro, Florencia en el Amazonas (Metropolitan Opera); Germont, La Traviata (Pittsburgh Opera); Rigoletto, Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera); Falstaff, Falstaff (Palm Beach Opera); The Dutchman, The Flying Dutchman (Utah Opera)

Last Updated: June 2024

Mezzo-Soprano
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Erda, Das Rheingold

Hometown: Washington, DC
Seattle Opera Debut
Engagements: Sally, The Hours (Metropolitan Opera); Klytämnestra, Elektra (The Dallas Opera); Auntie, Peter Grimes (Metropolitan Opera); Mary Cardwell Dawson, The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson (Washington National Opera)

Last Updated: May 2023

Tenor
At Seattle Opera in 2024/25: Greene Evans, Jubilee 

Hometown: Yellow Springs, OH
Seattle Opera Debut: Peter the Honeyman, Porgy and Bess (’18)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Mime, Das Rheingold ('23); Jalil/Wakil/Guard, A Thousand Splendid Suns (’23); Don Basilio, The Marriage of Figaro (’22); Monsieur Triquet, Eugene Onegin (’20)
Engagements: Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's Yardbird (Atlanta Opera, Arizona Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Dayton Opera, New Orleans Opera, Indianapolis Opera); Tenor Soloist, Messiah (Oratorio Society of NY at Carnegie Hall); Tenor Soloist, Carmina Burana (Cecilia Chorus of NY at Carnegie Hall); Goro, Madama Butterfly (Dallas Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Utah Opera); Frederic, The Pirates of Penzance (Virginia Opera, Kentucky Opera); Tenor, United Kingdom Recital Tour (Mirror Visions Ensemble)

Last Updated: August 2024

Mezzo-Soprano
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Fricka, Das Rheingold

Hometown: Newark, DE
Seattle Opera Debut: Olga, Eugene Onegin (’20)
Engagements: Soloist, Alto Rhapsody (San Francisco Symphony); Charmian (cover), Anthony and Cleopatra and Olga (cover), Eugene Onegin (San Francisco Opera); Fenena, Nabucco (Washington Concert Opera); Cousin Blanche (cover), Champion (Metropolitan Opera); Rossweisse, Die Walküre (Dallas Symphony); Mary, Flying Dutchman (Lyric Opera of Chicago)

Last Updated: December 2022

Soprano
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Freia, Das Rheingold

Hometown: Ferndale, WA
Seattle Opera Debut
Engagements: Floria Tosca, Tosca (Utah Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis); Mother Abbess, The Sound of Music (Houston Grand Opera); Ellen Orford, Peter Grimes (Oper Frankfurt); Soprano Soloist, Verdi’s Requiem (Phoenix Symphony); Soprano Soloist, Vaughan William’s A Sea Symphony (St. Louis Symphony)

Last Updated: May 2023

Bass
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Malcolm X, X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Hometown: Richmond, CA
Seattle Opera Debut: Commendatore, Don Giovanni (’21)
Previously at Seattle Opera: The Father, Blue (’22); Fafner, Das Rheingold ('23)
Engagements: Don Basilio, The Barber of Seville (San Francisco Opera); Raimondo, Lucia di Lammermoor (Madison Opera); Rocco, Fidelio (North Carolina Opera); Grand Inquisitor/Philip II (cover), Don Carlo (Maryland Lyric Opera); Falstaff, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Pocket Opera); Logger Bulrusher (West Edge Opera)

Last Updated: November 2023

Bass
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Fasolt, Das Rheingold

Hometown: Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China
Seattle Opera Debut
Engagements: Sarastro, The Magic Flute (Metropolitan Opera); Colline, La bohème (Washington National Opera); Bartolo, The Barber of Seville (Cincinnati Opera); Commendatore, Don Giovannni (Los Angeles Opera) Timur, Turandot (Houston Grand Opera); Sparafucile, Rigoletto (Teatro Real)

Last Updated: May 2023

Mezzo-soprano
At Seattle Opera in 2022/23: Flora, La traviata
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Flosshilde, Das Rheingold

Hometown: Seattle, WA
Seattle Opera Young Artist 2011/12, 2012/13
Seattle Opera Debut: Mercédès, Carmen (’11)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Stewardess, Flight (’21); Hansel, Hansel and Gretel (’16); The Composer, Ariadne auf Naxos (’15); The Secretary, The Consul (’14); Maddalena, Rigoletto (’14); Tisbe, Cinderella (’13); Suzuki, Madama Butterfly (’12)
Engagements: 2nd Ancella, Medea (The Metropolitan Opera); 2nd Dame, Die Zauberflöte (The Metropolitan Opera); Flora, La traviata (The Metropolitan Opera); Laurene Powell Jobs, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Austin Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, The Atlanta Opera); Cassandra Smith, Another City (Houston Grand Opera)

Last Updated: January 2023

Soprano
At Seattle Opera in 2022/23: Annina, La Traviata
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Wellgunde, Das Rheingold

Hometown: Seattle, WA
Seattle Opera Debut: Hero, Beatrice and Benedict ('18)
Seattle Opera Chorus Member since 2015
Previously at Seattle Opera: First Bridesmaid, The Marriage of Figaro (’22); Songs of Summer LIVE! (’21); Eurydice, Orpheus and Eurydice (’21); Chan Parker, Charlie Parker's Yardbird (’20)
Engagements: Pamina, The Magic Flute (Vashon Opera); Lucia, The Rape of Lucretia (Tacoma Opera); Soprano, The Little Match Girl Passion (Eugene Opera)

Last Updated: January 2023

Soprano
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Woglinde, Das Rheingold

Hometown: Palatine, IL
Seattle Opera Debut: First Lady, The Magic Flute (’17)
Engagements: Roxana (cover), King Roger (Chicago Opera Theater); Soloist, Re-Emerging: HOT Live in Concert (Hawai’i Opera Theatre); Alcina, Alcina (Berkshire Opera Festival); Lady Billows (cover), Albert Herring (Chicago Opera Theater)

Last updated: December 2022

Tenor
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Froh, Das Rheingold

Hometown: St. Petersburg, Russia
Seattle Opera Debut: Melot, Tristan and Isolde (’22)
Engagements: Pinkerton, Madame Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera); Manrico, Il trovatore (Israeli Opera); Siegmund, Die Walküre (Atlanta Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria); Luigi, Il tabarro (Scottish Opera); Don José, Carmen (Arizona Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Radames (cover), Aida (Lyric Opera of Chicago)

Last Updated: May 2023