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About Donovan
GRAMMY Award-winning American bass-baritone Donovan Singletary has established an international career spanning The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Glyndebourne Festival, English National Opera, the Berlin Philharmonic, Washington National Opera, and leading opera companies and orchestras throughout the United States and Europe. His repertoire ranges from Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, and Handel to Gershwin and contemporary American opera, reflecting a career distinguished by both dramatic and musical versatility.
Singletary’s 2026–27 season includes Verdi’s Requiem with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, his debut with Opéra de Monte-Carlo as Jake in Porgy and Bess, and a return to Cincinnati Opera as Timur in Puccini’s Turandot.
Singletary has appeared in multiple productions at The Metropolitan Opera, including Tosca, Porgy and Bess, and Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones. His international appearances include Teatro alla Scala, Glyndebourne Festival, English National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Grange Park Opera, and performances with the Berlin Philharmonic.
His operatic repertoire includes Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Escamillo and Zuniga in Carmen, Count Capulet in Roméo et Juliette, Mefistofele in Boito’s Mefistofele, Achilla in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Monterone in Rigoletto, and Harvey in Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers. He has also developed a significant association with Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, performing both Crown and Jake in productions at The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, English National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Seattle Opera, Grange Park Opera, Atlanta Opera, Opera Carolina, North Carolina Opera, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
On the concert stage, Singletary has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, at the BBC Proms and Carnegie Hall, and with orchestras including the Deutsche Radio Philharmonic and Pacific Symphony. His concert repertoire includes the Requiems of Verdi, Mozart, and Fauré, among other symphonic and sacred works.
Singletary is a graduate of the joint Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and Juilliard School program. At 21, he was named a Grand Prize winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, becoming the youngest male winner in the competition’s history. That same year, he was personally selected by the Met’s then-General Director Joseph Volpe as the recipient of the Joseph Volpe Award. Additional honors include awards from the George London Foundation and Sullivan Foundation.