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A series of hour-long concerts at Saratoga Arts featuring 20 rising opera stars singing the music that made them want to be singers. Come peek behind the music and learn what inspired the young artists of Opera Saratoga.

Portrait Concerts

Congress Park

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.

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Ryan Speedo Green, Bass-Baritone Adam Nielsen, Piano

Carnegie Hall

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

### Event Description: Ryan Speedo Green at The Wallis

**Event:** The Wallis & LA Opera Present Ryan Speedo Green  
**Date:** January 19, 2025  
**Time:** 2:00 PM  
**Venue:** Bram Goldsmith Theater, The Wallis Center for Performing Arts, LA  
**Ticket Price:** $39 - $149  
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Join us for the second installment of the LA Opera and The Wallis recital series, featuring the two-time GRAMMY-winning bass-baritone, Ryan Speedo Green. Hailed as "the real showstopper" by The New York Times, Green is fresh from his triumphant starring roles in the Metropolitan Opera’s acclaimed productions of "Champion" and "Fire Shut Up In My Bones," as well as his portrayal of Wotan in the LA Philharmonic’s "Das Rheingold."

This performance marks Green's first appearance with LA Opera and The Wallis, where he will be joined by the talented pianist Adam Nielsen. Don't miss this opportunity to witness the magnetic and fast-rising star in an unforgettable recital.

**Performers:**
- **Ryan Speedo Green:** Bass-Baritone
- **Adam Nielsen:** Piano

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Ryan Speedo Green

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

﻿When hard-headed British phonetics professor Henry Higgins takes Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle under his wing to transform her into a lady, cultures clash and Higgins and Eliza form an unlikely bond. With timeless songs like “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” and “I Could Have Danced All Night”, the Opera Saratoga version will be a love letter to theater, with 10 singing actors playing all the roles and two pianists forming the orchestra. Directed by Mary Birnbaum and choreographed by Julia Eichten, the production will be music directed by Adam Nielsen.

My Fair Lady

Universal Preservation Hall

Celebrate the music that has been composed in the Capital Region with a 90 minute concert that features local singers and Capital Region composers Evan Mack, Bernadette Speach, Richard Wargo, Scott Wheeler, Robert Whelan and more! Followed by a talkback with Mary Birnbaum, OS' General and Artistic Director.

Pianist

Adam Nielsen

Events

Upcoming events

May 20 - Jun 10, 2026

Portrait Concerts · Opera Saratoga

20 - 28 Jun, 2026

My Fair Lady · Opera Saratoga

Jun 27, 2026

Composers Concert · Opera Saratoga

Past events

May 20 - Jun 10, 2026

Portrait Concerts · Opera Saratoga

Jan 22, 2025

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

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in My Fair Lady by Loewe

Opera Saratoga

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