Ryan Speedo Green

Named “the real showstopper” by the New York Times, three-time Grammy Award winning bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green has already established himself as an artist of international demand at the world’s leading opera houses and orchestras. The 2024-25 season sees Green’s role debut as Klingsor in a new production of Parsifal by Jetske Mijnssen with Robin Ticciati conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Green also returns to the Metropolitan Opera for his thirteenth season and with a role debut as Queequeg in Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick, marking the house premiere of the opera, as well as a reprise of Fernando in Il Trovatore and The Gesiterbote in Die Frau ohne Schatten conducted by long-standing collaborator Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Green also returns to Santa Fe Opera for his role debut as Wotan in Melly Still’s production of Die Walküre, conducted by James Gaffigan.

Orchestral appearances include a return to Orchestre Metropolitain Montreal for Bruckner’s Te Deum with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Mahler Symphony No. 8 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons. Recital appearances include his much-anticipated debut at Carnegie Hall as well as with Los Angeles Opera, Colorado Opera, and True Concord in Tucson, Arizona. He also returns to his role as Artist in Residence with Florida State University for a series of master classes and an orchestral concert.

Green’s 2023-24 season saw a number of important role debuts including as Heinrich der Vogler in Lohengrin, with both Deutsche Oper Berlin conducted by James Conlon, and the Bayerische Staatsoper, the title role in Don Giovanni with Santa Fe Opera, as Charles in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut up in my Bones at the Metropolitan Opera, and as Wotan in Das Rheingold in concert with the LA Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Green also returns to hosting the Met Live in HD broadcast of Roméo et Juliette, broadcast to cinemas around the world. Additional operatic appearances included Escamillo in Carmen at the Met, and his house debut with Staatsoper Hamburg as Varlaam in Boris Godunov, conducted by Kent Nagano. Concert work included his debut with the Chicago Philharmonic in a special concert of arias and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Colorado Symphony. On the recital stage Mr. Green appeared with Austin Opera in a special recital recorded and broadcast on PBS, a recital at the Ferguson Center in Virginia, and a continuation of his role as Artist in Residence with Florida State University for a series of master classes and a recital.