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Grammy Award-winning bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green has rapidly established himself as one of the most sought-after artists on the international opera scene. Acclaimed for his powerful portrayal of Jake in Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera — a performance that earned him a Grammy — he has since appeared in leading roles at major houses such as the Met, Wiener Staatsoper, Houston Grand Opera, and Washington National Opera. His repertoire ranges from Mozart to Verdi to contemporary works by Terrence Blanchard, including signature roles like Colline (La Bohème), Escamillo (Carmen), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), and Fasolt (Das Rheingold).
On the concert stage, Green has performed with top orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His remarkable personal and artistic journey is chronicled in Sing for Your Life (Daniel Bergner, Little Brown, 2016) — a New York Times bestseller that tells the story of his rise from a challenging childhood in Virginia to the Metropolitan Opera stage, praised as “one of the most inspiring stories” by the New York Times and “vital and compelling” by the Washington Post.
A graduate of the Hartt School of Music and Florida State University, and an alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ryan Speedo Green stands as a defining voice of his generation — an artist whose talent, resilience, and authenticity continue to inspire audiences worldwide.
Grammy Award-winning Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley is one of the most revered and influential artists of our time, with celebrated performances at the world’s major opera and concert venues and recordings on CD and DVD with major labels in a wide variety of repertoire. His extensive career is devoted to the complete spectrum of vocal art, encompassing operatic, orchestral and song repertoire, collaborating with the greatest composers, orchestras and conductors.
His career initially focussed on the music of Mozart; his Don Giovanni and Count Le nozze di Figaro have been heard live and broadcast throughout the world. His ever expanding repertoire soon encompassed major Wagner and Verdi repertoire as well roles including Bluebeard, Guillaume Tell, J. Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams’ Dr. Atomic, and Jaufré Rudel in Saariaho’s L’amour de loin. He created Harry Heegan in Mark Anthony Turnage’s The Silver Tassie.
Finley’s 2025/26 season begins with a new production of Tosca at the Royal Ballet & Opera for their season opening; his debut at Teatro alla Scala as Don Alfonso Così fan tutte; Golaud Pelléas et Mélisande at Opéra de Monte-Carlo; Amfortas Parsifal at Wiener Staatsoper; Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro and the title role in Macbeth at Bayerische Staatsoper. On the concert platform, Finley will perform Handel’s Messiah with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Brahms’ Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Orchestre de Paris and Klaus Mäkelä; and a concert at Teatro Real with Leo Hussain.
Last season began with a concert performance of Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at Norwegian National Opera under the baton of Edward Gardner, which was released by Decca Classics; Scarpia Tosca at Staatsoper unter den Linden; and a double appearance as the title role in Verdi’s Macbeth at the Wiener Staatsoper and Bayerische Staatsoper. Further highlights include the New York premiere of Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera and the world premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage’s new opera Festen at the Royal Ballet & Opera. On the concert platform, Finley performed Brahms’ Requiem with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin; and performed a recital tour with acclaimed pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
Other recent engagements saw Finley as Hans Sachs in Laurent Pelly’s new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Madrid; Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra at the Liceu and San Francisco Opera; Amfortas Parsifal, Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro and Iago Otello at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Don Alfonso Così fan tutte and Wolfram Tannhäuser at the Royal Ballet & Opera; Scarpia Tosca and Count in Netia Jones’ new production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Opéra national de Paris; Der fliegende Holländer at Staatsoper Berlin; the title role in Bluebeard’s Castle and Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera; the title role in Falstaff at the Vienna State Opera and in a new production at the Salzburg Festival.
In concert, he performed Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Mendelssohn Elijah with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano; Bluebeard Bluebeard’s Castle at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Oslo Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, with Against the Grain Theatre in London and Toronto, l’Orchestre de Paris, Wiener Symphoniker and Gotherburg Symphony Orchestra; Beethoven Symphony No.9 conducted by Bernard Haitink in Munich and at the Salzburg Festival with Riccardo Muti; the opening gala concert at the Paris Opera with Gustavo Dudamel; as well as a recital tour with Julius Drake in London, Strasbourg, Vienna, Madrid, Luxembourg and Valencia.
His other notable successes include Hans Sachs at the Glyndebourne Festival and Opéra de Paris; AmfortasParsifalat the Royal Ballet & Opera, in Baden-Baden with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle ans the Bavarian State Opera; Wolfram at the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Verdi’s Falstaff at the Canadian Opera (for which he won a DORA Award) and the Salzburg Festival; as a “peerless” IagoOtello with Sir Colin Davis and the LSO (LSO Live) Royal Ballet & Opera in Japan, and Bavarian State Opera, and Canadian opera; and in the title role in Rossini’s William Tell with Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Sir Antonio Pappano (EMI) and at the Royal Ballet & Opera Covent Garden. His other important roles include Scarpia, Golaud, Eugene Onegin and Nick Shadow. In contemporary opera, Finley has excelled in creating leading roles, most notably J. Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams’ Doctor Atomic (New York Met, ENO London, San Francisco, Chicago and Amsterdam); Harry Heegan in Turnage’s The Silver Tassie at ENO; Howard K. Stern in Turnage’s Anna Nicole at Covent Garden; Jaufré Rudel in Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin; and Mr Fox in Tobias Picker’s Fantastic Mr Fox at L.A. Opera. In 2012, the DVD release of Doctor Atomic in which Gerald Finley appeared as J. Robert Oppenheimer was awarded the Grammy for ‘Best Opera Recording’.
Finley’s concert work is a vital part of his flourishing career with recent appearances with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic the London Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He was the star of the 2018 Last Night of the Proms and a rediscovered version of Shostakovich’s “English Poets” along with that composer’s orchestral cycle, Michelangelo Sonnets, was recorded by Finley and the Helsinki Philharmonic on the Ondine label and received international critical acclaim. Modern day composers have written extensively for him and include Peter Lieberson (Songs of Love and Sorrow with the Boston Symphony and recorded by Ondine with the Helsinki Radio Orchestra), Mark Anthony Turnage (When I woke with the LPO and Vladimir Jurowski), Huw Watkins, Julian Philips, Kaija Saariaho (True Fire with the L.A. Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel), and Einojuhani Rautavaara (Rubáiyát with the Helsinki Philharmonic).
As a celebrated song recitalist, he works regularly with pianist Julius Drake. Their many appearances throughout the world include the Schubertiade, a residency at the Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie-Zankel Hall and lauded appearances at the festivals of Salzburg, Edinburgh, and Tanglewood. He has also performed with Sir Antonio Pappano, Malcolm Martineau, Simon Lepper and Michael McMahon.
Finley’s many solo recital CD releases have been devoted to complete songs of Barber, Britten, Duparc, Ives, Liszt, Ravel and Schumann song cycles Dichterliebe and Liederkreis Op. 24 & 39. With a continuing partnership with Julius Drake on the Hyperion label, all have been critically acclaimed, including an unprecedented three Gramophone Awards in the Solo Vocal category. Their release of Schubert Winterreise won a Canadian Juno Award in 2015 and last season saw the completion of their Hyperion Schubert trilogy with the release of Die schöne Müllerin. Most recently the London Symphony Orchestra released a recording of Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Finley in the title role.
As part of his dedication to preserving and enhancing the singing tradition, he gives masterclasses throughout the world most recently at the Juilliard School of Music, and continues to work with the Jette Parker Young Artists’ Program at the Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden, the National Opera Studio, and the Lindemann Program at the Met.
Finley was born in Montreal, began singing as a chorister in Ottawa, Canada, and completed his musical studies in the UK at the Royal College of Music, King’s College, Cambridge, and the National Opera Studio. He is a Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music. In 2014 he climbed Kilimanjaro for the charity Help Musicians UK. In 2024, Finley was honoured as a Kammersänger of the Bayerische Staatsoper for his outstanding artistic achievements and his long connection to the opera house. He was appointed Commander of
the Order of the British Empire in 2017 and had previously been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. Finley also features on a Canadian stamp celebrating Canadians in opera.
British bass-baritone Ossian Huskinson is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music, where he was a Bicentenary Scholar, studying with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham.
Operatic engagements have included Sciarrone (Tosca), and Harašta (The Cunning Little Vixen) for English National Opera where he was a Harewood Artist; Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) for Dorset Opera Festival; Zaretsky (Eugene Onegin), Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Jupiter (Platée) for Garsington Opera. He made his international debut at Deutsche Oper, Berlin, singing Second Armed Man (Die Zauberflöte) and Pietro (Simon Boccanegra).
He is a member of the Jette Parker Artists Programme at The Royal Ballet and Opera, London. His roles this season include Marquis d’Obigny (La Traviata), Wagner (Faust), Mandarin (Turandot) and Angelotti (Tosca).
Ossian Huskinson’s continuing professional development is supported by Mascarade Opera.
Edward Birchinall is a member of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio, where he studies with Russell Smythe. His roles there include Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) and Don Iñigo Gomez (L’heure espagnole). A keen recitalist, he has performed across the UK and Europe, including at Wigmore Hall and Snape Maltings, where he is a Britten Pears Scholar for the 2024/25 season. His prizes include First Prize at the Edinburgh University Tovey Memorial Competition, the Anne Wyburd Prize for Lieder, and Third Prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards. Edward is grateful to be supported by the Derek Butler Scholarship, Help Musicians UK, and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. This summer, he joins the Glyndebourne Chorus and will cover the role of Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the Da Ponte Festival in Vittorio Veneto.
Maksim Andreenkov made his operatic debut in 2015 as Petrus in Carl Orff’s Der Mond at the Pokrovsky Opera in Moscow. In 2018, he entered the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and began performing on the chamber stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.
In 2020, he joined the Young Artist Program at Helikon Opera in Moscow, where he appeared as Escamillo (Carmen) and Nardo (La Finta Giardiniera).
Since 2022, he has been based in Germany, where he made his debut as Sonora in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West at Theater Hagen. In 2023 and 2024, he performed the title role in Il Re Teodoro di Venezia and Don Artabano in Cimarosa’s Le Trame deluse at the Cologne University of Music and Dance (HfMT). He also performed as Iarbe in Piccini’s Didon at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Festival in 2024.
A bass-baritone from the Veneto region, he began studying opera singing under the guidance of the Lieder soprano Argit Butzke; he is currently specialising with the American teacher Sherman Lowe.
In 2013 he won the First Prize at the XVI Giovan Battista Velluti International Competition and the Absolute Popular Jury Award.
He is a finalist in the O.M.E.G.A. International Competition in Florence and the Iris Adami Corradetti Competition. He was third prize winner at the Magda Oliviero opera competition and at the “Franco Federici” competition in Parma. Again in Parma, the following year, he won Second Prize at the Rinaldo Pelizzoni International Opera Competition, as well as the Popular Jury’s Appreciation Prize.
In Treviso, he won First Prize in the ‘Giovani Musicisti’ International Competition and First Prize in the ‘Premio Contea’ Competition. He graduated from the Faculty of ‘Letters and Philosophy’ at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. In 2014, he won the ‘Concorso Comunità Europea’ in Spoleto – the youngest winner in recent years – and made his debut in the role of Schaunard in La bohème by G. Puccini. In the same year, he also won the ‘Premio Etta Limiti’ competition in Milan, where he also received the ‘Young Male Talent’ award.
In 2016, he won First Prize at the Concorso Internazionale di CantoLirico “Mauro Pagano” – Canneto sull’Oglio (MN) and the prestigious As.Li.Co competition for the role of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. In the A.A. 2016/2017 he was a full student at the Accademia di Alto Perfezionamento dell’Opera in Florence, under the direction of Maestro Gianni Tangucci.
In January 2018 he won the Mercedes Viñas Prize, at the Tenor Viñas competition in Barcelona and his recent and future engagements include: Acquagranda at the Teatro LaFenice, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Carlo and La Traviata at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Rigoletto at the Filarmonico in Verona and at the Petruzzelli in Bari, La Bohème in a Japanese tour of the Sperimentale in Spoleto and at the Regio in Turin, La fanciulla del West at the San Carlo, Edipo re (Leoncavallo) at the Verdi in Pisa, Le songe d’une nuit d’été at the Wexford Festival, Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Massimo in Palermo and at the Opéra in Paris, La Bohème in Turin and at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Carmen in Palermo, Macerata and as Escamillo in Valladolid, Ariadne auf Naxos in Bologna, La Cenerentola in Salerno, Don Giovanni at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Macerata, Naples and at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Rinaldo in Venice Le nozze di Figaro in Sydney, Moscow and the Komische Oper in Berlin, Così fan tutte on tour with the Kammermorchester Basel in Paris and Hamburg.
William Socolof is an award-winning operatic bass-baritone and recitalist. He has appeared as a soloist with many top North American orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. The New York native graduated from The Juilliard School in 2022 with an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies and was awarded The Stephen Novick Grant for Career Advancement. Thereafter, he attended the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, singing Riolobo in selections from Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, as well as operatic scenes of Mozart and Berlioz with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. He also complete both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at The Juilliard School, where he studied with Sanford Sylvan and William Burden. William was a winner of the 2020 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions.
Albert Dohmen can look back on a long international career with a first highlight in 1997 performing Wozzeck at the Salzburg Easter and Summer Festival with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras conducted by Claudio Abbado and directed by Peter Stein. He subsequently worked with famous conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Claudio Abbado, James Conlon and many others. Albert Dohmen has been interpreting the important roles of his fach (like Kurwenal, Pizarro, Wotan, Amfortas, Holländer, Scarpia, Bluebeard, Hans Sachs) at all major opera houses such as the Bastille in Paris, Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, at the opera houses of Zurich, Amsterdam, the Liceo Barcelona, the Vienna State Opera, the opera in Los Angeles etc. He made his debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera as Jochanaan / Salome.
Albert Dohmen established himself as one of the leading Wotan singers of his generation. He sang this part in complete Ring cycles in Trieste, Geneva, Catania, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Vienna State Opera, at Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam and at the MET, just to name a few.
Recent highlights include his debut as Hans Sachs / Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Geneva and Barcelona, as Gurnemanz / Parsifal in Geneva, as Barak / Frau ohne Schatten in Florence under the direction of Zubin Mehta as well as productions Elektra / Orest in Baden-Baden under Christian Thielemann, Salome / Jochanaan in Amsterdam, Don Giovanni / Commendatore at the Vienna State Opera, Flying Duchman/ Daland in Paris, Falstaff in Stuttgart, Tristan/ König Marke in Barcelona and Meistersinger/ Pogner at La Scala in Milan.
Albert Dohmen made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival 2007 performing Wotan / Wanderer in the Ring cycles with revivals in the following years. At the 2022 Bayreuth Festival he made his debut as Hagen / Götterdämerung and Landgraf / Tannhäuser.
Albert Dohmen is also a very successful concert singer: He has sung the entire bass repertoire from Bach to Schönberg in all important concert halls and at international festivals, for example Beethoven´s 9th symphony under Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Brahms´ Requiem, again under Kurt Masur at the St. Denis Festival, Mahler´s 8th Symphony under Valery Gergiev and Gurre-Lieder, Beethoven’s 9th under James Levine. He also has various recital programmes, which he can be hears with in the renowned concert halls.
Among the numerous CDs documenting his artistic output, special mention should be made of his recordings of Zemlinsky’s Florentine Tragedy with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly and his three recordings under Sir Georg Solti (Frau ohne Schatten, Fidelio and Meistersinger).
Originally from Québec city, Jean-Philippe Mc Clish holds a master’s degree and an artist diploma in opera performance from McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where he studied with soprano Dominique Labelle. Previous roles include Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (Opéra de l’Université de Montréal) as well as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Re in Ariodante, Készakállú in Bluebeard’s Castle, Falke in Die Fledermaus, Garibaldo in Rodelinda and Dulcamara in Elisir d’amore (Schulich School of Music). He also sang the King in Fête Galante (Smyth) with opera5. As a soloist, he has performed in Handel’s Messiah (Ensemble Sinfonia), Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle (Chœur polyphonique de Rimouski), Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (Kingston Symphony), along with the Requiems of Brahms (Orchestre symphonique de Lévis) and Mozart (Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières). With l’Opéra de Montréal, Jean-Philippe sang in 2019-2020 the part of the Captain in Eugene Onegin, the Second Prisoner in Fidelio, as well as covering Raimondo in Lucia di Lamermoor. He was supposed to sing the role of the second Armoured guard and covering Papageno in the Komishe Oper production of Zauberflöte at Opéra de Montréal. A production cancelled due to Covid19. He was also singing with the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques (2018-2019). Who gave him the opportunity to sing with Regensburg Opera. He is a grant recipient from the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation (2019) and the Art Song Foundation award (2019). Jean-Philippe will be singing this year the role of Antonio and covering Figaro in Nozze di Figaro with Opéra de Montréal. He would also normally have been singing the rôles of Dr. Grenvil in Traviata and the Mayor in Jenufa. Two production that will be presented in the season of 2021-2022 instead. He will be part of the prestigious Verbier Festival for the summer 2021. Jean-Philippe is currently a resident artist at Opera de Montreal.
Milan Siljanov has established himself as a compelling presence on the European operatic scene, praised for his ‘fiery and persuasive vocal presence’ (Bachtrack) and ‘heartbreakingly intense singing’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung). In recent seasons, he has been a frequent presence at Bayerische Staatsoper, where his roles include Leporello (Don Giovanni), Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore), Schaunard (La bohème), Donner (Das Rheingold), and Panas in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Night Before Christmas. His growing international profile includes performances with Theater an der Wien—where he debuted as the Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen, later reprising the role at Opéra national de Paris—as well as repeated returns to the Verbier Festival, most recently in the title role of Falstaff in 2024. In the 2025/26 season, he appears again at Bayerische Staatsoper and embarks on a French tour with Ensemble Correspondances. Milan Siljanov was the first recipient of the Prix Yves Paternot in 2016 and has since returned regularly to Verbier as a guest artist.