Baritone
“seemingly effortless bass baritone” -The Washington Post,
“vocally assured” – Opera News
Jarrod Lee Baritone
Jarrod Lee, baritone and librettist, hails from Alabama and presently resides in Maryland. He has received rave reviews from Opera News and The Washington Post. Jarrod has performed roles and/or covered roles with Annapolis Opera, Atlanta Opera, Baltimore Concert Opera, IN Series, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Maryland Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Opera Delaware and Washington National Opera. A few of Jarrod’s past roles include: Undertaker in Porgy and Bess, Sacristan/Angelotti/Jailor in Tosca, Bonze in Madama Butterfly, Pastor/Kaboom (cover) in Fire Shut Up In My Bones, Mano (cover) in Champion, Henry Davis in Street Scene, Le Bailli in Werther, Le Chat/ L’horloge in L’enfant et les sortilege. Jarrod has also performed in community outreach works commissioned by Washington National Opera called In the Smoke of the Sting and Just out the Window by Tom Minter. Jarrod was a finalist in the Annapolis Opera, the Harlem Opera Theater Vocal Competitions and a semifinalist in Austria’s Meistersinger. A lover of new works, Jarrod premiered the role Levi in the Afrofuturistic opera ballet called Cloud Nebula by Scott Patterson with Afro House Baltimore, and Joe Louis in Shadowboxer by Frank Proto and John Chenault with the Maryland Opera Studio. Jarrod has also participated in American Voices at the Kennedy Center, curated by Renée Fleming and Jarrod had the honor of performing for President Barack Obama as a featured soloist with the historic Metropolitan A.M.E Church in Washington D.C. For updates: www.JarrodLee.com / Website.
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