American baritone Jarrett Ott, one of Opera News’ twenty-five “Rising Stars,” and called “a man who is seemingly incapable of an unmusical phrase,” is enjoying an international career at the age of 37. In the 24/25 season, Mr. Ott will make his Metropolitan Opera debut singing Agrippa in John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra, and reprise Rameau’s Samson with the Opéra Comique in Paris. Other appearances include Conte in Le nozze di Figaro with Teatro Regio di Torino, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with the Grand Théâtre de Genève, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, and concert appearances with the Grand Teatro del Liceu as Riff in West Side Story, Raphaël Pichon at the Paris Philharmonie for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, as well as this same work with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées on tour in Europe, and a tour of Mozart’s Requiem with Philippe Herreweghe and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.

In the 23/24 season, Jarrett Ott performed the title role in Rameau’s newly completed Samson with Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the title role in Pascal Dusapin’s Macbeth Underworld with Opéra Comique, Colonel Álvaro Gómez in a new production by Calixto Bieito’s of The Exterminating Angel by Thomas Adès with Opéra national de Paris, and Don Pedro de Alvarado in Purcell’s The Indian Queen with Teodor Currentzis and the Salzburg Festival. In concert, Jarrett joined the Colorado Symphony and Oregon Bach Festival for Vaughan-Williams’ A Sea Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra for Ralph Vaughan-Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, the US Naval Academy in Annapolis for Messiah and Symphoria in Syracuse, NY for an evening of opera favorites.