Grant Youngblood

Baritone

Mr. Youngblood has performed with many major opera companies including The Metropolitan Opera (Capriccio), San Francisco Opera (Sharpless in Madama Butterfly), New York City Opera (Scarpia in Tosca, Don Giovanni(title role), Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Germont in La Traviata, Escamillo in Carmen); Virginia Opera (the title role of Rigoletto), Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore, Germont in La Traviata, Silvio in Pagliacci); Florida Grand Opera (Silvio in Pagliacci, Rigoletto (title role), Ashby in La Fanciulla del West); Austin Lyric Opera (Germont in La Traviata); Washington National Opera (Dappertutto in Les contes d'Hoffmann); Glimmerglass Opera (Thoäs in Iphigénie en Tauride); and Central City Opera (John Proctor in The Crucible, Germont in La Traviata, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Horace Tabor in The Ballad of Baby Doe, Olin Blitch in Susannah); Opera Theater of St. Louis and Madison Opera.

Concert engagements have included appearances with the Dallas Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, the Florida Philharmonic, the Chautauqua Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic, the Jacksonville Symphony, the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, and the Bucharest Philharmonic, among others. Mr. Youngblood has been praised as well for his exceptionally expressive artistry in recital, with appearances throughout the United States.

Upcoming engagements for Mr. Youngblood include performances of his Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Virginia Opera, Florentine Opera and Kentucky Opera and Jack Rance in La Fanciulla del West with Central City Opera.