About Donovan

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GRAMMY Award-winning bass-baritone Donovan Singletary has appeared with many of the world’s leading opera companies and orchestras, including The Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera, Berlin Philharmonic, Teatro alla Scala, and Glyndebourne Festival. Establishing himself as one of the most versatile bass-baritones of his generation, he continues to balance operatic, symphonic, and concert work.

His most recent and upcoming seasons include a return to the role of Crown in Porgy and Bess with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Elder John Lewis in a presentation of Good Trouble with Cincinnati Opera,Escamillo in Carmen with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, and Father Trulove in The Rake’s Progress with Opera Omaha.

2023–2024 engagements included debuts with Washington National Opera (as Count Capulet in Roméo et Juliette) and Pacific Opera Victoria (as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro), a return to Opera Carolina for Samson et Dalila, and symphonic appearances such as Mozart’s Requiem with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra.

In 2022–2023, he debuted with the Berlin Philharmonic, returned to English National Opera for It’s A Wonderful Life, sang Crown in Porgy and Bess with North Carolina Opera and Opera Carolina,appeared with Orchestra Iowa in Verdi’s Requiem, and gave concerts and residencies across the U.S.

Following the acclaimed 2021–2022 opening of The Metropolitan Opera in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones, Singletary made debuts with Glyndebourne and the BBC Proms. He also appeared in Anthony Davis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning The Central Park Five with Portland Opera.

He has portrayed Jake and Crown in Porgy and Bess across leading houses worldwide, including The Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera/Dutch National Opera, Atlanta Opera, Grange Park Opera, Opera Carolina, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Additional credits include Leporello in Don Giovanni (Nashville Opera), Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro(Minnesota Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria), Colline in La Bohème (Fort Worth Opera), and Jake in Porgy and Bess at Teatro alla Scala.

On the concert stage, he has performed with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonic, Latvian National Opera, Orchestre Lamoureux, and made multiple appearances at Carnegie Hall, singing works by Mark Hayes, Fauré, Haydn, and Mozart.

A Grand Prize winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, he was the youngest male in the competition’s history and received the distinguished Joseph Volpe Award.