Performance Year: 2025
A Kansas native, bass Scott Conner has been lauded by critics and audiences for his appearances on both sides of the Atlantic. Conner’s warm, flexible voice and elegant stature brings proficiency in a wide range of repertoire, including Mozart, Rossini, Handel, Donizetti, and Verdi. He is a graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts and a Sara Tucker Study Grant winner from the Richard Tucker Foundation. Conner was the recipient of the 1st Prize Award in the 2012 Gerda Lissner Vocal Competition and the 2012 Loren L. Zachary Vocal Competition.
Scott Conner begins his 2024/25 Season with a return to The Metropolitan Opera, where he will perform One-Armed Brother in Die Frau ohne Schatten, 2nd Armored Man in their holiday presentation of The Magic Flute, and Jose Tripaldi in Ainadamar. He also joins the company to cover Don Fernando in Fidelio and Colline in La Bohème. In the spring, Conner makes his anticipated role and house debut as Ramfis in Aida with Arizona Opera. During the 2023/24 Season, Conner joined The Metropolitan Opera for its production of La Bohème, returning to the stage for a performance as Colline. He also joined the Jacksonville Symphony for his role debut as Zuniga in Bizet’s Carmen. During the summer, the bass made a return to Santa Fe Opera as the Police Commissioner in Der Rosenkavalier.
Other notable U.S. appearances include San Francisco Opera as Tom in Un ballo in maschera, Palm Beach Opera as Angelotti in Tosca, San Diego Opera as Escamillo in Carmen, Santa Fe Opera as Mustafa in L’italiana in Algeri, Portland Opera as Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Bard Summerscape in the American premiere of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane, and the Spoleto Festival USA as the First Soldier and First Nazarene in Salome. Additionally, he joined the roster of the Lyric Opera of Chicago to cover the role of Mephistopheles in Faust.
Connor has also appeared with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and BBC Proms as the Police Commissioner in Der Rosenkavalier, Zürich Opera as Don Profondo in Il Viaggio a Reims, Zoroastro in Orlando, Tom in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera with Bayerische Staatsoper, Theseus in Robert Carsen’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cavalli’s Elena with Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Nerbulone in Eliogabalo with Opéra National de Paris, Jupiter/Vulcano in La finta pazza led by Leonardo Alarcon with Opera de Dijon, Nerbulone in Eliogabalo and Bernardino in Benvenuto Cellini with the Dutch National Opera, Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with L’Opéra de Lille.
