American tenor Jason Collins has begun to attract international attention as one of the new, young heldentenors to watch. Her recently made his debut at the La Monnaie in Brussels in performances of Das Klagenlied and this season makes his debuts in Liege and China as Erich in Der Fliegende Holländer, and at the Tel Aviv Opera as Steva in Jenufa.
Mr. Collins recently made his debuts at the San Francisco Opera as Froh in Das Rheingold, the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Tichon in Katya Kabanová, and both the Teatro Communale di Bologna and the Boston Lyric Opera as the title role in Idomeneo. He has appeared all over the U.S. in opera companies such as the Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Seattle Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Chicago Opera Theater, Bard Music Festival, Arizona Opera and Ft. Worth Opera. His many roles include the title roles in Parsifal, Idomeneo, Don Carlos, and The Rake’s Progress; Froh in Das Rheingold, Siegmund in Die Walküre, Erich in Die Fliegende Holländer, Tambour Major in Wozzeck, Malcolm in Macbeth, Narraboth in Salome, Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, Zinovy in Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk, Anatol in Vanessa, Lenksi in Eugene Onegin, Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Jove in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and Nerone in L’incoronazione di Poppea. Mr. Collins also sang the role of Schweik in The Good Soldier Schweik on the 2003 Cannes Awards nominated world premiere recording for Cedille Records ... read full bio
American tenor Jason Collins has begun to attract international attention as one of the new, young heldentenors to watch. Her recently made his debut at the La Monnaie in Brussels in performances of Das Klagenlied and this season makes his debuts in Liege and China as Erich in Der Fliegende Holländer, and at the Tel Aviv Opera as Steva in Jenufa.
Mr. Collins recently made his debuts at the San Francisco Opera as Froh in Das Rheingold, the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Tichon in Katya Kabanová, and both the Teatro Communale di Bologna and the Boston Lyric Opera as the title role in Idomeneo. He has appeared all over the U.S. in opera companies such as the Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Seattle Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Chicago Opera Theater, Bard Music Festival, Arizona Opera and Ft. Worth Opera. His many roles include the title roles in Parsifal, Idomeneo, Don Carlos, and The Rake’s Progress; Froh in Das Rheingold, Siegmund in Die Walküre, Erich in Die Fliegende Holländer, Tambour Major in Wozzeck, Malcolm in Macbeth, Narraboth in Salome, Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, Zinovy in Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk, Anatol in Vanessa, Lenksi in Eugene Onegin, Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Jove in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and Nerone in L’incoronazione di Poppea. Mr. Collins also sang the role of Schweik in The Good Soldier Schweik on the 2003 Cannes Awards nominated world premiere recording for Cedille Records.
On the concert platform Mr. Collins has appeared with the Pittsburgh Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Pacific Symphony, and American Symphony Orchestra, in repertoire such as Beethoven’s No. 9, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, and Handel’s Messiah. He also recently appeared in concerts in Amsterdam and Milan.
A native of South Carolina, Mr. Collins is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including the 2007 Richard Tucker Career Grant, the 2005 Richard F. Gold Career Grant, the 2000 Mario Lanza competition, the Lucrezia Bori prize for foreign study, the Alice Tully scholarship, and the Tatiana Troyanos scholarship. He received his Bachelor of Music in Voice from the Juilliard School and Master of Music in Opera from the Curtis Institute of Music and is recent graduate of the Pittsburgh Opera Center.
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