Eric Greene
Baritone
Grammy award-winning American baritone Eric Greene’s recent engagements include the world premiere of Brent Michael David’s American Requiem with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, London, BENNY “KID” PARET in Terence Blanchard’s Champion MET, Wynton Marsalis’ Symphony No. 5 Liberty National Symphony Orchestra, ESCAMILLO Carmen Liceu Barcelona and Madison Opera, BALSTRODE Peter Grimes Isreali Opera, El Cimarrón Festival d’Aix en Provence, PORGY Porgy and Bess Lyric Opera Kansas City, Theater an der Wien, ENO, Festival Litomysl Prague, BUDIJOV Dalibor The Bard Festival, and NICHOLAS LOFTE in Jonathan Dove’s Itch Opera Holland Park, London.
In concert, current projects include War and Peace Isreali Opera, Porgy and Bess Festival Litomysl, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Musikfest Bremen and Quincena Musical of San Sebastian, BUDIVOJ Dalibor Bard Music Festival, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 La Fondazione Arturo Toscanini (Fabio Luisi), Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero (title role) LSO (Antonio Pappano), and THE WORD/VOICE OF GOD in Dett’s Ordering of Moses Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and at Carnegie Hall.
Past engagements include MONTERONE Rigoletto RBO, Covent Garden and on tour with the ROH to Japan, WOTAN Das Rheingold CBSO, Rigoletto (title role), AMONASRO Aida, BILLY BIGELOW Carousel, GUNTHER Götterdämmerung Opera North, RICHARD NIXON Nixon in China Scottish Opera, OBERON in Hans Gefors‘ Der Park Malmö Opera, BILL Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny Teatro dell’opera di Roma, HENRY DAVIS Weill’s Street Scene Teatro Real, JANITOR Tansy Davies’ Between Worlds (world premiere) ENO at the Barbican, DONNER Das Rheingold and GUNTHER Götterdämmerung Teatro Massimo in Palermo, CROWN Porgy and Bess Lyric Opera of Chicago, Atlanta Opera, Sydney Symphony and Spoleto Festival, The Knife of Dawn (world premiere) Roundhouse, IVAN KHOVANSKY Khovanshschina, AENEAS Dido and Aeneas and SEGISMUNDO Jonathan Dove’s Life is a Dream (world premiere) Birmingham Opera, ESCAMILLO Carmen Portland Opera, and QUEEQUEG Moby Dick Washington National Opera.
Eric Greene also worked with Opéra Comique, Salzburger Landestheater, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Lisbon, San Francisco Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Santa Fe Symphony, Los Angeles Opera, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
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Emma Ventris
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"Eric Greene delivers a Porgy that is both musically commanding and physically meticulous. His baritone is rich, centered, and beautifully supported — each sustained phrase ringing with clarity and emotional intelligence. His musicality demonstrates not only vocal power but restraint; he understands when to swell and when to let stillness speak.Physically, Greene’s embodiment of Porgy’s disability is astonishingly authentic. His relationship to the crutch, his shifts in balance, the grounded quality of his posture — none of it feels performed. It feels lived. Yet Porgy is never diminished. Greene portrays him as a pillar of integrity within Catfish Row — strong in spirit, unwavering in loyalty, and fully committed to defending Bess by any means necessary."
Andrew Burrill, Broadway World
"The intensity of Carter’s passionate engagement both with his country and his art comes over with dignity and eloquence in baritone Eric Greene’s performance, which is a genuine tour de force of empowered vocalism and expressive concentration."
The Guardian
"Greene’s interpretation of the misguided drifter is extremely compelling. Less mature and streetwise than Gordon McRae’s portrayal in the classic Hollywood film, Greene’s Billy Bigelow is an outsider surrounded by a sense of sadness."
Bachtrack
"Eric Greene excels as bad-boy Billy Bigelow: Greene has the looks, presence and acting ability to make the audience care about his fate, and his individual and finely textured baritone is an equivalent asset."
The Guardian
"In his Met debut, baritone Eric Greene was equally strong, vital and believable as Paret."
Financial Times
