Bass-baritone Jonathan Mark Roberts has, at age 23, already performed over 15 principal roles in the U.S. and Europe. This season, he will portray Sarastro in The Magic Flute with MetroWest Opera. He is also featured on the newly-released commercial recording of Carson Cooman's The Revelations of Divine Love: Metaphors from Sea and Sky, available on the Albany label. In August, Jonathan originated the role of The Grand Inquisitor in The Trial of George Bush, Roger Rudenstein's follow-up to The Devil and George Bush, a first-of-its-kind Internet opera in which Jonathan created the role of Faustus. Other roles Jonathan has performed on this side of the Atlantic include such diverse characters as Grandpa Moss in Aaron Copland's The Tender Land, with the Dunster House Opera Society and Harvard Bach Society Orchestra; Judge Turpin on the Loeb Drama Center's mainstage in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club's production of Sweeney Todd; Don Alfonso in Cosí fan Tutte with the Dunster House Opera Society; and the title role in The Mikado with the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players, New England's premier Gilbert and Sullivan company.
Mr. Roberts' international appearances include Don Andres de Ribeira in Offenbach's La Perichole with Opéra du Perigord; solo appearances in Paris and at the Mois Moliére festival in Versailles; and Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro and Frank in Die Fledermaus with the Amadeus Opernensemble at the Kapitalsaal in Salzburg, Austria.
Jonathan is also an active choral artist and soloist, and is currently Artist-in-Residence at the First Unitarian Society in Newton. His concert and oratorio repertoire ranges from Bach to Handel to 20th and 21st century masterworks. For four years, he was a member of the Harvard University Choir and Harvard Choral Fellows. He has also been a featured artist with Emmanuel Music and the Mark Morris Dance Group in the Celebrity Series of Boston; Orpheus Singers; Masterworks Chorale; and with many other choral groups and festivals.
Jonathan was a finalist in the 2009 Grand Concours de Chant in Austin, TX. He is also the recipient of two New Jersey Governor's Awards in Arts Education, for operatic and choral performance. International artists with whom Jonathan has coached include Simon Estes, William Lewis, Francois Loup, and Teresa Zylis-Gara. He has performed under the batons of Clinton Smith, Judith Clurman, Anne Watson Born, and Edward Elwyn Jones, among others.
Mr. Roberts was born in New Jersey and currently lives in Massachusetts, where he recently graduated from Harvard College. He studies with tenor Frank Kelley.
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