Thomas, Russell

Russell Thomas (Atlanta, Georgia)

2024–25 Season: Soloist, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Title role of Roberto Devereux; Florestan in Fidelio

Recent and Upcoming: Florestan in Fidelio (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Kaiser in Die Frau ohne Schatten (Metropolitan Opera); title role of Tannhäuser (Houston Grand Opera); Énée in Les Troyens à Carthage (Seattle Opera); Don José in Carmen (Detroit Symphony); Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana (Canadian Opera Company); title role of Parsifal (Houston Grand Opera); Radames in Aida (Chicago, Houston, LA Opera); Cavaradossi in Tosca (London’s Royal Ballet and Opera, Chicago); Calaf in Turandot (LA, London); Alvaro in La Forza del Destino (Olso’s Norwegian National Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Paris Opera); Joel Thompson’s Fire and Blue Sky (LA); title role of Otello (Canadian Opera Company, London, LA); title role of Ernani (Chicago); Manrico in Il Trovatore (Munich's Bavarian State Opera); title role of Don Carlo (Metropolitan Opera); Rodolfo in La Bohème (Metropolitan Opera); title role of Idomeneo (Salzburg Festival); title role of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex (LA); Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Vienna Philharmonic); Otello in concert (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra tour)

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