Calvin Griffin

Bass-baritone

Calvin Griffin recently made exciting debuts with Atlanta Opera as Mother in The Seven Deadly Sins, Opera Birmingham as Escamillo in Carmen, Opera on the James as Leporello in Don Giovanni, and Opera Orlando as Alidoro in La Cenerentola. Additionally, he returned to Arizona Opera to sing Dr. Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Atlanta Opera as Morales in Carmen, and debuted with Minnesota Opera as the Potter’s Assistant in Fellow Travelers.In the 2018-2019 season, he returned to Florida Grand Opera in the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, Minnesota Opera as Eddie in The Fix, and to Wolf Trap Opera as Bartolo in Il barbiere di Sivigliaand Gomez in L’heure espagnole. With Florida Grand Opera he has appeared as Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen,Victor in Before Night Falls, and Samuel in Un ballo in maschera. Additional roles with Arizona Opera include Captain in Florencia en el Amazonas, Zuniga in Carmen, Pistola in Falstaff, Count Ceprano inRigoletto, Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin, Speaker/2nd Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte, Hortensius in La fille du régiment, Colline in La bohème, and Dr. Grenville in La traviata.On the concert platform he recently sang Handel’s Messiahwith the Richmond Symphony and Bach’s Mass in B minorwith Gloria Musicae in Sarasota, Florida, and has been a soloist in Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiemand Mozart’s Requiem. Calvin spent two summers with the Glimmerglass Festival appearing in their productions of Xerxes, Porgy and Bess, and La gazza ladra, as well as covering the title role in Sweeney Todd.  As an Apprentice Artist to Santa Fe Opera his assignments included Count Ceprano in Rigolettoand Hortensius in La fille du régiment. He is thrilled to join the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in the 2019-2020 season for their production of Werther.