Aaron Blake
Tenor
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The young American tenor Aaron Blake is making his European debut at Oper Frankfurt singing Michel in Martinů's Julietta. He then returns to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he has appeared reguarly since 2017, in operas including La Traviata, Les contes d’Hoffmann, The Merry Widow, Rigoletto and Dialogues des Carmelites, for a new production of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten. He recently sang Louis in Peter Eötvös’ Angels in America at New York City Opera. He made his debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival in Lincoln Center New York singing Tamino, a role he sang on tour with the Komische Oper Berlin in Australia and New Zealand. His many engagements in the USA have taken him to Utah Opera, Tulsa Opera (Nadir in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles), Dallas Opera (Roméo in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette) and Washington National Opera (Donizetti's Anna Bolena). He also sang Timothy Laughlin in the world premiere of Gregory Spear's Fellow Travelers at the Prototype Festival in New York and made his debut in the Carnegie Hall as Rothschild in Rothschild’s Violin. He returns to Tulsa Opera to sing his first Rossini role - Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia). Aaron Blake won the 2017 George London Foundation Award.