Jarrett Porter
baritone
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The American baritone Jarrett Porter left the opera studio to join Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in the 2024/25 season, since when roles have included a Sergeant, Ormonte & the Marquis de Corcy in new productions of Henze's Prince of Homburg, Handel's Partenope & Adolphe Adam's Le Postillon de Lonjumeau, Ned Keene in Peter Grimes, Edgar in Vito Žuraj’s Blossoming - which he also sang when it first opened (»World Premiere of the Year 2023« Opernwelt), the male lead in a new production of Birtwistle's Punch and Judy and a Doctor in Macbeth. During the 2026/27 season he sings Orlik, Lotario & Kostandis in new productions of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, Handel's Flavio and Martinů's The Greek Passion. Other roles for the company included 4th Shepherd (Daphne), Borow (Fedora), the Speaker (Die Zauberflöte), Barbavano and Curio in new productions of Offenbach's The Bandits and Handel's Giulio Cesare, the Major-Domo (Strauss’ Capriccio), Leone (Tamerlano), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Elviro (Xerxes), the Elder Son / Herald-Courtier a new Benjamin Britten The Prodigal Son / The Burning Fiery Furnace double bill and Duke Hoël in Frank Martin’s Le vin herbè. Recent guest engagements included George Nowack in She Loves Me at Saratoga Opera, Schaunard (La bohème) at Theater Bielefeld, Valentin (Gounod's Faust) for the Berkshire Opera Festival and Oliver Sacks in the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s Awakenings in Saint Louis. He made his professional debut singing Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at Arizona Opera. He was Artist in Residence at Marlboro Music and graduated from the Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio, Santa Fe's Apprentice Program, the Glimmerglass Festival and Saratoga Opera and the International Meistersinger Academy (IMA) in Neumarkt, where he appeared with the Nürnberg Symphony Orchestra. This award winning singer trained at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Juillard School in New York.