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: Daggoo in Moby Dick, 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.

Opera & Concert

Roles

Opera:

Amelia al Ballo / The Officer / Maryland Opera Studio

Appomattox / SNCC Man / Washington National Opera

Il barbiere di siviglia / Fiorello and Basilio / Opera Baltimore (BCO) and Maryland Opera Studio

La bohème / Benoit, Alcindoro, Colline, and Customhouse Sergeant / Aspen Music Festival and School, IN Series, Opera Birmingham, Maryland Opera

Candide / Baron, Judge, & Senore / Washington National Opera

Champion / Mano (cover) / Metropolitan Opera

Cloud Nebula / Levi & Kojo / Afro House Baltimore

The Emperor of Atlantis / Loudspeaker / IN Series

L’enfant et les sortilèges / Le Chat & L’Horloge / Aspen Music Festival and School

Eugene Onegin / Captain Zaretsky and Gremin (cover) / Maryland Opera Studio

Fairy Queen / Puck / IN Series

Fire Shut Up In My Bones / Pastor & Kaboom (covers) / Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago

Gianni Schicchi / Betto / Aspen Music Festival and School

Lost in the Stars / Paulus & Hlabeni / Washington National Opera

Madama Butterfly / Bonze / Annapolis Opera

Mikado / Mikado and Pish-Tush / Jacksonville Opera Theatre and Young Vic Theatre Company

Miss Havisham’s Fire / Jaggers / Maryland Opera Studio

Moby Dick / Dagoo / Metropolitan Opera

Pirates of Penzance / Sergeant of Police / Young Victorian Theatre

Porgy and Bess / Undertaker / The Atlanta Opera, Washington National Opera

Postcard from Morocco / Man with the Cornet Case / Maryland Opera Studio

Roméo et Juliette / The Duke /

Shadowboxer: an Opera based on the Life of Joe Louis / Joe Louis / Maryland Opera Studio

Silent Night / Scottish Soldier #3 / Washington National Opera

Street Scene / Henry Davis / Maryland Opera Studio

Sunder / Officer Jones / Annapolis Opera

Il tabaro / Talpa / Maryland Opera Studio

Tosca / Angelotti, Sacristan, & Jailer / Maryland Opera, Annapolis Opera, Maryland Symphony Orchestra

Traviata / Barone & Marchese / Aspen Music Festival and School, Annapolis Opera, Anne Arundel Community College Opera

Werther / Le Baillie / Opera Delaware / Opera Baltimore

Concert:

Handel’s Messiah (The People That Walketh)

Berlioz’ L’enfant du Christ

Mozart’s Requiem

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Baritone

Jarrod Lee Baritone

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