Singer

In Te Deum, Bruckner is a musical architect building a veritable cathedral—a grand monument chiselled to perfection and brimming with devotion. As he was unable to complete his ninth and final symphony, he suggested that Te Deum replace its last movement. The result, performed by four internationally renowned soloists and the Chœur Métropolitain, is simply majestic.

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Legendary Figures

Place des Arts

Lecherous nobleman, Don Giovanni has had infamous exploits (he keeps a catalog). He kills the father of one of his victims and now, his continued debauchery will seal his fate. Who will exact revenge and make him pay the price for his misdeeds?

Don Giovanni

Santa Fe Opera

Suave, Shameless and Doomed

Lecherous nobleman, Don Giovanni has had infamous exploits (he keeps a catalog). He kills the father of one of his victims and now, his continued debauchery will seal his fate. Who will exact revenge and make him pay the price for his misdeeds?

Don Giovanni at Santa Fe Opera

The Santa Fe Opera

Terence Blanchard’s stirring drama returns following its landmark company premiere in 2021, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green starring as Charles, a young man faced with a fateful decision. Soprano Latonia Moore reprises her heartbreaking portrayal as Charles’s mother, Billie, with rising soprano Brittany Renee doing triple duty as Charles’s love interest, Greta, as well as the embodiments of Loneliness and Destiny. James Robinson and Camille A. Brown’s gripping production includes what is surely the only step dance in opera. Evan Rogister conducts Blanchard’s score, which powerfully melds opera and jazz.

Fire Shut Up In My Bones

Lincoln Center

In Gustavo Dudamel’s words, “Music after Wagner was never the same. Wagner's operas pushed music to its physical and emotional limits … paving the way not just for composers like Mahler and Richard Strauss, but for everything from Star Wars to Metallica.” For the first time, Dudamel helms a fully staged production of one part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, navigating the epic naturalism, endless melodies, and gripping harmonies. The mythical world of Das Rheingold springs forth from Walt Disney Concert Hall with the help of the ever-innovative Frank Gehry, direction by Alberto Arvelo, and costumes by Cindy Figueroa. The Grammy Award-winning Ryan Speedo Green lends his voice to Wotan, headlining an internationally renowned cast.

Dudamel Leads Das Rheingold
Celebrating Frank Gehry

Walt Disney Concert Hall

The Met celebrates the New Year with a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly popular and powerful works. Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story of deadly passion with a staging that moves the action to the modern day, amid a band of human traffickers.

Carmen

Internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green returns to Austin Opera in November for a concert at the new Austin PBS Media Center. Austin Opera’s groundbreaking Opera ATX program partners with Austin PBS to present and record the concert, building on the hugely successful 2021 An All-Star Concert—in which Ryan Speedo Green also performed—which has aired on more than fifty PBS stations around the nation with an audience reach of 113 million.



Ryan Speedo Green in Concert

Austin PBS Media Center

From its stunningly beautiful solo moments to the rapturous “Dies Irae” that movie trailers have—rightly—lifted as a soundtrack to the end of the world, Verdi’s Requiem is a darkly dramatic 90-minute roller-coaster ride. When Gustavo Dudamel last conducted it a decade ago, the Los Angeles Times raved about his “radical and wondrous” performance that drew in the Bowl audience for moments of “intimate, personal expression” while also soaring in the many massive moments that “shook the Cahuenga Pass.”

Dudamel conducts Verdi’s Requiem

Hollywood Bowl

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021–22. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Soprano Latonia Moore is Emelda Griffith, the boxer’s estranged mother, and mezzo- soprano Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagan. Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for Blanchard’s second Met premiere, also reuniting the director-and-choreographer team of James Robinson and Camille A. Brown.

Champion

Acadiana Center for the Arts

Bookended by two of Bruckner’s sacred choral works, the transcendent and unfinished Ninth Symphony, Bruckner’s last , will be performed by Yannick and the Orchestra as the composer wished it: with his soaring Te Deum as its finale. Bruckner considered the Te Deum his masterpiece, calling it “the pride of his life,” and Gustav Mahler, who treasured Bruckner’s score, said it was written “for the tongues of angels.” Savor the infinite beauty of the human voice in this joyful, majestic music, performed by the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir and a cast of acclaimed operatic soloists.

Yannick and Bruckner

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

When Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones opened the Met’s 2021–22 season to universal acclaim, it marked a historic moment in the annals of the company. Now, the six-time Grammy Award–winning composer’s first opera arrives at the Met. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Soprano Latonia Moore is Emelda Griffith, the boxer’s estranged mother, and mezzo- soprano Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagan. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is again on the podium for Blanchard’s second Met premiere, and director James Robinson—whose productions of Fire and Porgy and Bess brought down the house—oversees the staging. Camille A. Brown, whose choreography electrified audiences in Fire and Porgy, also returns.

Still’s Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race, celebrates the Black American as, in the composer’s words, “a totally new individual.” Adolphus Hailstork’s oratorio Done Made My Vow, A Ceremony, conceived here for the stage by director Tazewell Thompson and video artist Rasean Davonté Johnson, honors the countless Black Americans who have faced “the bench of injustice, and, by doing so, changed a nation.” A World Premiere by Courtney Bryan, with a new libretto by Thompson, celebrates a variety of Black musical heritage. Leslie B. Dunner conducts.

The March to Liberation

For the first time, Gustavo Dudamel conducts the return of this remarkable production of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, directed by Peter Sellars with video by Bill Viola, one of America’s leading visual artists. When the Tristan Project was first performed in 2004, The New York Times hailed it as “a multimedia conception that promised to be so ingenious that listeners traveled long distances to catch it and talked about it for months.” Matching Wagner’s 19th-century desire to expand what opera could be with 21st-century innovation, Viola’s and Sellars’ staging explores the psychological, spiritual, and elemental subtext of the story. This rare opportunity to see the Tristan Project features a globally celebrated cast, headlined by Michael Weinius and Miina-Liisa Värelä.

Dudamel Leads the Tristan Project: Act III

Dudamel Leads the Tristan Project: Act II

Dudamel Leads the Tristan Project: Act I

The New York Choral Society celebrates its 26th appearance at the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala, one of the most highly anticipated events of the opera season at the new David Geffen Hall.

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala

Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a deeply emotional, innovative new semi-staged production of Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, created for both Deaf and hearing audiences. Told through the composer’s music sung by hearing vocalists and the expressive gestural poetry of sign language by Deaf actors, the performances explore the search for communication—both primal and sublime—that is at the heart of all artistic expression.  Premiered in 1805 as Beethoven was reckoning with his own Deafness, Fidelio is a tale of triumph over oppression as the noblewoman Leonore goes undercover to daringly rescue her husband from political imprisonment. Dudamel conducts the LA Phil and a star-studded cast in a groundbreaking event directed by Alberto Arvelo, co-directed by Joaquín Solano and produced in collaboration with Los Angeles’ acclaimed Tony Award®-winning Deaf West Theatre (Artistic Director, David Kurs) and El Sistema’s Coro de Manos Blancas (White Hands Choir, Artistic Director, María Inmaculada Velásquez).

Dudamel Conducts "Fidelio"

This is the long awaited, triumphant opening night concert of The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park that you can't afford to miss! The starry evening combines a world premiere San Diego Symphony commission from celebrated American composer Mason Bates, delicious classical excerpts, world-class guest artists (like pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, cellist Alisa Weilerstein and rising young bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green), heart-pounding song selections and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, all led by Music Director Rafael Payare in his public concert debut at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.

The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park® Opens: A Celebration with Rafael Payare and The San Diego Symphony

The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park

Verdi’s charged drama of family strife and forbidden love stars tenor Michael Fabiano as Manrico, the bold troubadour unwittingly at war with his own brother. Sopranos Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Angela Meade share the role of the noble Leonora, with mezzo-sopranos Jamie Barton and Olesya Petrova trading off as Manrico’s tormented mother, Azucena. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is the unbending Count di Luna, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the soldier Ferrando. Italian conductor Daniele Callegari leads David McVicar’s Goya-inspired staging.

Il Trovatore

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to lead Strauss’s grand mythological epic, a tour de force for orchestra and soloists alike. A spectacular trio of sopranos lead the ensemble cast, with Elza van den Heever as the otherworldly Empress, Lise Lindstrom as the Dyer’s Wife, and Nina Stemme as the Nurse. Following recent triumphs in Wagner’s Ring cycle and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, baritone Michael Volle is Barak, with tenor Russell Thomas as the Emperor and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the Spirit Messenger.

Die Frau ohne Schatten

The fast-rising bass-baritone already has two Grammy Awards to his name, and now Ryan Speedo Green has begun his conquest of the world’s leading opera houses. Fresh from his triumphant star turns in the Metropolitan Opera’s acclaimed productions of Champion and Fire Shut Up In My Bones and in the LA Philharmonic’s recent Das Rheingold, this magnetic performer makes his first LA Opera appearance in a spellbinding recital.

Ryan Speedo Green In Recital

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Metropolitan Opera star and Grammy Award winner Ryan Speedo Green performs his Carnegie Hall recital debut. In this wide-ranging program, the versatile bass-baritone showcases his dramatic prowess and range across songs drawn from 19th- and 20th-century European, American, and Russian music, offering a thoughtful meditation on major composers’ responses to mortality. Experience a “powerhouse of a voice that is as strong as it is beautiful” (New York Classical Review) in the intimacy of Zankel Hall.

Ryan Speedo Green, Bass-Baritone Adam Nielsen, Piano

Carnegie Hall

Following the haunting Met premiere of his first opera, Dead Man Walking, composer Jake Heggie returns to the company with his 2010 adaptation of Herman Melville’s sea-drenched, heaven-storming epic. A cast of standouts comes together on the decks of the Pequod, with tenor Brandon Jovanovich starring as the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, implacable in his pursuit of the white whale; tenor Stephen Costello as Greenhorn, the opera’s version of Ishmael; baritone Peter Mattei as the even-keeled first mate Starbuck; and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the Polynesian harpooneer Queequeg. The cast also features soprano Janai Brugger as Pip, tenor William Burden as Flask, and baritone Malcolm MacKenzie as Stubb. Maestro Karen Kamensek takes the podium for a stunning staging by Leonard Foglia that arrives at the Met newly enlarged and refined following acclaimed runs in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.

Moby-Dick

Experience the monumental saga of forbidden love and cosmic destiny with "Die Walküre" at the Santa Fe Opera. This epic second installment of Wagner's Ring Cycle unfolds in a broken land where gods clash and heroes rise, set to music of titanic magnitude. From July 26 to August 21, 2025, immerse yourself in a world where the rules of the universe no longer apply, sung in German with instant translation screens in English and Spanish.

The opera, with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, promises an unforgettable journey through its approximately 4 hours and 35 minutes runtime, including two intermissions. The story spans three acts, beginning with Siegmund's fateful encounter with Sieglinde, leading to their forbidden love, and culminating in the dramatic consequences of their actions, influenced by the gods themselves.

Featuring a stellar cast including Tamara Wilson as Brünnhilde, Ryan Speedo Green as Wotan, Jamez McCorkle as Siegmund, and Vida Miknevičiūtė as Sieglinde, under the baton of conductor James Gaffigan and direction by Melly Still. The production's scenic and costume designs by Ana Inés Jabares-Pita, lighting by Malcolm Rippeth, and choreography by Tinovimbanashe Sibanda promise to bring Wagner's mythical world to life.

Don't miss this powerful performance at the Santa Fe Opera, where music, drama, and visual artistry come together to tell a timeless tale of love, power, and destiny. Tickets are available for performances on select dates from July 26 to August 21, 2025. Join us for a night of unforgettable opera under the stars in the beautiful setting of Santa Fe.

Ryan Speedo Green

Bass-baritone

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 26 - Dec 6, 2024

Il Trovatore · The Metropolitan Opera

Nov 29 - Dec 19, 2024

Die Frau ohne Schatten · The Metropolitan Opera

Jan 19, 2025

Ryan Speedo Green In Recital · LA Opera

Jan 22, 2025

Ryan Speedo Green, Bass-Baritone Adam Nielsen, Piano · Carnegie Hall

3 - 29 Mar, 2025

Moby-Dick · The Metropolitan Opera

Past events

Sep 22, 2024

Legendary Figures · Orchestre Métropolitain

Jun 29 - Aug 23, 2024

Don Giovanni · Santa Fe Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

Escamillo in Carmen by Bizet

The Metropolitan Opera

Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni by Mozart

Santa Fe Opera

Rocco in Fidelio by Beethoven

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Young Emile Griffith in Champion by Blanchard

The Metropolitan Opera

Charles in Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Blanchard

The Metropolitan Opera

Wotan in Das Rheingold by Wagner

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Wotan in Die Walküre by Wagner

Santa Fe Opera

Spirit Messenger in Die Frau ohne Schatten by Strauss

The Metropolitan Opera

Ferrando in Il Trovatore by Verdi

The Metropolitan Opera

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