Performance Year: 2025
Named “the real showstopper” by the New York Times, three time GRAMMY Award- winning bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green has quickly established himself as an artist of international demand at the world’s leading opera houses.
Mr. Green’s 2023/2024 season saw a number of important role debuts, including as Heinrich der Vogler in Lohengrin with both Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Bayerische Staatsoper, the title role in Don Giovanni with Santa Fe Opera, as Charles in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones at the Metropolitan Opera, Escamillo in Carmen at the Met, Wotan in Das Rheingold in concert with the LA Philharmonic, and his house debut with Staatsoper Hamburg as Varlaam in Boris Godunov. Concert work included his debut with the Chicago Philharmonic in a special concert of arias and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Colorado Symphony. On the recital stage, Mr. Green appeared with Austin Opera in a special recital that will be broadcast on PBS and a continuation of his role as Artist in Residence with Florida State University for a series of master classes and a recital.
Honors and awards include National Grand Finals Winner of the 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a 2014 George London Foundation Award, a 2014 Annenberg Grant, a 2014 Gerda Lissner Foundation First Prize, and both the Richard and Sara Tucker Grants from the Richard Tucker Foundation. A native of Suffolk, Virginia, Mr. Green received a Master of Music degree from Florida State University, a Bachelor of Music degree from the Hartt School of Music, and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Mr. Green currently sits on the Board of Regents at University of Hartford.
