Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield, baritone, is one of Opera Idaho’s “Emerging Artists” for the 2021-2022 season. Originally from Atlanta, GA, he studied with John T. Gates at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI and Peter Volpe at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. This past July, he sang the role of Hannah (Before) in Laura Kaminsky’s As One with Opera Maine. Other recent roles include Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute, and John Brooke in Adamo’s Little Women. In 2015, he was a recipient of the Thomas J. Watson fellowship, which allowed him to study indigenous song traditions in the Republic of Congo, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Norway, and Russia.