Jonathan Boyd, Tenor

Jonathan Boyd a native of Corning, New York consistently performs to great acclaim in Europe, North America, and South America. Mr. Boyd’s career highlights include Idomeneo with Opera Grand Avignon (France) Lensky in Eugene Onegin with Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole (France) with a repise in the role while making his company debut with L’Opéra de Reims (France). Mr. Boyd performed the title role in Werther in a live HD broadcast with Teatro Colón (Argentina) and reprised the role with Scottish National Opera. The roles of Faust, Candide, and Sam in Street Scene were all debuted with Portland Opera (Oregon) and with Opera di Firenze Maggio Musicale (Italy) in the role of Le Prince in L’Amour des Trois Oranges. Mr. Boyd’s San Diego Opera debut was in the role of Green Horn in Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick.

Mr. Boyd’s signature roles include Alfredo with over 8 productions of La Traviata including Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Germany) and The Icelandic Opera (Iceland), Don Ottavio with over 9 productions including Opera Royal de Wallonie (Belgium), Dallas Opera, Opera Colorado, and Live HD Streaming broadcast from Teatro Colón (Argentina), Tamino with over 5 productions of Die Zauberflöte including Seattle Opera (Washington) and Teatru Manoel (Malta), Roméo with over 9 productions in Roméo et Juliette including Michigan Opera Theater (Detroit) and Opéra de Toulon (France), Tom Rakewell with 6 productions including the Hockney production with Portland Opera (Oregon) and a new production with Teatro Municipal de Santiago (Chile).

Mr. Boyd’s concert appearances have included the New York Philharmonic in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. The Philadelphia Orchestra in a recording of Pagliacci. Additionally, Mr. Boyd has performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Opéra de Rouen Haute Normandie (France), Britten’s War Requiem for Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá (Columbia), Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Forth Worth Symphony, Haydn’s Creation with the Choral Arts Society at the Kennedy Center, Mozart’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Rachmaninoff’s Vespers with the Choral Arts Society in Washington D.C., Mozart’s Solemn Vespers at Carnegie Hall and With Maestro Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque, Händel’s Messiah. With I Musici de Montréal Mr. Boyd was heard in Finzi’s Dies Natalis and Britten’s Les Illuminations. With Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and in a live TV broadcast with Virginia Symphony the role of Mozart in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri. Most recently Mr. Boyd was the tenor soloist in Rossini’s Stabat Mater with Winter Park Bach Festival.