Calvin Griffin, a native of Columbus, Ohio, has been hailed as “outstanding” by Opera News and was commended for his “voluminous bass-baritone” by South Florida Classical Review. During the 2020/2021 season he returned to The Atlanta Opera for their acclaimed tent series in performances of Der Kaiser von Atlantis, and Carmen, made his Opera Theatre of St. Louis debut in their Outdoor Festival season, appearing in their “New Works, Bold Voices Lab” in the World Premieres of Laura Karpman and Taura Stinson’s On the Edge and The Tongue and the Lash by Damien Sneed and Karen Chilton, and returned to Wolf Trap Opera as Death in Gustav Holst’s Savitri. Other recent highlights include the title role in Le nozze di Figaro with both Florentine Opera and Florida Grand Opera, Handel’s Messiah with the Columbus, Richmond and Virginia Symphonies, Eddie in The Fix with Minnesota Opera, Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Gomez in L’heure espagnole with Wolf Trap Opera, and his Metropolitan Opera debut singing Brühlmann in Werther. The 2021/2022 season will see his return to the Metropolitan Opera and his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones, his return home to Opera Columbus as Tommy in Fellow Travelers, as well as concert appearances in both Columbus, Ohio and Sarasota, Florida.
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