Eric Greene

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Composer	Opera	Role
Bellini	I Puritani	Riccardo
Bizet	Carmen	Escamillo
	Les Pecheurs de Perles	Zurga
Britten	Billy Budd	Billy Budd
	Peter Grimes	Captain Balstrode
Danielpour	Margaret Garner	Robert Garner
Donizetti	Lucia di Lammermoor	Enrico
Dove	Life is a Dream	Segismundo
Gershwin	Porgy & Bess	Porgy, Crown
Giordano	Andrea Chenier	Gerard
Gounod	Faust	Velentin
Humperdinck	Hansel und Gretel	Father
Leoncavallo	I Pagliacci	Silvio, Tonio
Mascagni	Cavalleria Rusticana	Alfio
Menotti	Amahl and the Night Visitors	King Melchior
Mozart	Le Nozze di Figaro	Count
	Don Giovanni	Don Giovanni
Puccini	La Boheme	Marcello
	Manon Lescaut	Lescaut
	Madama Butterfly	Sharpless
	Tosca	Scarpia
Saint-Saens	Samson et Dalila	High Priest
Strauss	Elektra	Orest
Verdi	Falstaff	Ford
	Il Trovatore	Di Luna
	Un Ballo in Maschera	Renato
	La traviata	Germont
	Aida	Amonasro
	Don Carlo	Rodrigo
	Nabucco	Nabucco
Wagner	Das Rheingold	Donner
	Gotterdammerung	Gunther
	Tannhauser	Wolfram

Composer	Work
Barber	Dover Beach
Beethoven	Ninth Symphony
	Mass in C
Brahms	Ein Deutsches Requiem
Britten	War Requiem
Copland	Old American Song 1 & 2
Danielpour	Past time
Faure	Requiem
Gershwin	Porgy and Bess Suite
Handel	Samson
	Messiah
Mahler	Rückert-Lieder
	Symphony No. 8
Meachum	Songs of the Slave
Mendelssohn	Elijah
Mozart	Requiem
	Mass in C Major
Orff	Carmina Burana
R.V. Williams	A Sea Symphony
	Five Mystical Songs
	Songs of Travel
	Dona Nobis Pacem
Verdi	Requiem

American baritone Eric Greene, praised for his fine musicianship and resonant baritone voice, is making his mark throughout Europe.  Most recently he thrilled UK audiences and critics alike in his first foray into the Rodgers & Hammerstein repertoire as Billy Bigelow in Opera North’s new production of Carousel, with Opera Brittania exclaiming, “The tall, handsome figure of Mr. Greene will command any stage and his smooth, dark and powerful baritone would be equally at home in Opera North’s Ring Cycle.”  He also stunned in his creation of the leading role of Segismundo in the World Premiere of Jonathan Dove and Alasdair Middleton’s Life is a Dream at UK’s Birmingham Opera Company.

Additional recent engagements include Donner in Das Rheingold at Teatro Massimo di Palermo; a reprisal of the role of Billy Bigelow in Carousel at the Barbican Centre in London; his Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra debut performing the role of Melot in Tristan und Isolde in Concert at the Casals Festival; Porgy and Bess Concert Suite with the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon and the Cleveland Orchestra; and the cover of both Donner and Gunter for Seattle Opera’s 2013 Ring Cycle.  Future seasons will also see a return to Washington National Opera as Queequeg in Moby Dick; Teatro Massimo di Palermo as Gunther in Gotterdämmerung; Opera Birmingham as Prince Ivan Khovansky in Khovanshchina; as well as a soon to be announced return to the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

He first received international acclaim as Jake in Porgy and Bess and saw performances of this role with the Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique, the Granada International Festival in Spain, Grand Théâtre in Luxembourg, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, and the Los Angeles Opera.  He has since made the foray into performing Crown as well as the title role of Porgy. Other recent role debuts include Amonasro in Aida, Germont in La Traviata, and Escamillo in Carmen in which the Washington Post said his “rich, full tones made Escamillo’s superficiality convincingly attractive.”

Previous engagements have also included Crown in Porgy and Bess at the Atlanta Opera; Amonasro in Aida at Opera Memphis; Peter (the Father) in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel and Escamillo in Carmen with Virginia Opera; Ping in Turandot with Opera Company of Philadelphia and Opera Carolina; Robert Garner in the world premiere of Richard Danielpour’s Margaret Garner at the Michigan Opera Theater, Opera Company of Philadelphia and Opera Carolina; Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Eugene Opera; and baritone soloist in Richard Danielpour’s Pastime at Northwestern University.

In concert and recital, Mr. Greene performed Kirke Mechem’s Songs to the Slave and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem with the Bel Canto Chorus in Milwaukee, an All-Gershwin Concert with the Rackman Symphony Choir, and a 25^th anniversary concert entitled Festivals, Parties and Celebrations with Santa Belle Music Festival. He has also performed in countries such as Australia, Fiji, Manila, Guam, Hong Kong and the Soloman Islands, the Virgin Islands, and with Manny Fox in Puerto Rico. He was the winner in the Leontyne Price Vocal Competition in Maryland, the first place winner in Rosa Ponselle’s All Marylanders Competition, the first place in the NAACP ACT-SO competition, and was awarded the Gluck Foundation scholarship.