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Kenneth Overton

Baritone

Kenneth Overton

Kenneth Overton is lauded for blending his opulent baritone with magnetic, varied portrayals that seemingly “emanate from deep within body and soul.”  Kenneth Overton’s symphonious baritone voice has sent him around the globe, making him one of the most sought-after opera singers of his generation.  Kenneth is a 2020 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER for Best Choral Performance in the title role of Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by JoAnn Falletta.

This season, engagements for Kenneth include his Metropolitan Opera debut in the fall of 2021 as Lawyer Frazier in Porgy and Bess, a reprisal of the role of Ralph Abernathy in I Dream with Opera Carolina, The Homecoming Soldier in Zach Redler’s The Falling and The Rising with Opera Carolina, and Germont in La Traviata for Fort Worth Opera.

He will also appear with the National Philharmonic as a soloist for Mozart’s Requiem as well as Hailstork’s A Knee on the Neck, Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses with the Harlem Chamber Players, Handel’s Messiah with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Mozart’s Requiem with the National Chorale, a solo recital at The Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University, a recital with the American Composers Orchestra, and will debut Damien Geter’s An African American Requiem with the Oregon Symphony with subsequent performances at the Kennedy Center with the Choral Arts Society of Washington.

Future seasons include a return to the title role of Porgy and Bess with Opera Carolina, North Carolina Opera, and in concert with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Hamburg.  He will also sing the role of Mr. Maguire in Tobias Picker’s Emmeline for Tulsa Opera.

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