ABOUT
JONATHAN BRYAN
JB
Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Jonathan Bryan has been praised for his “beautifully resonant baritone,” and “substantial sound,” and has performed leading roles on stages throughout the United States and abroad. He is an alumnus of Washington National Opera's Cafritz Young Artist Program, The Atlanta Opera Studio, Wolf Trap Opera, and The Glimmerglass Festival Young Artist Program.
BIOGRAPHY
Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Jonathan Bryan has been praised for his “beautifully resonant baritone,” and “substantial sound,” and has performed leading roles on stages throughout the United States and abroad. He is an alumnus of The Atlanta Opera Studio, Wolf Trap Opera, and The Glimmerglass Festival Young Artist Program, and was a 2019 Georgia District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. This season features a number of role and house debuts. He joins the Metropolitan Opera Roster covering the role of JTAC in Jeanine Tesori's Grounded, which he previously workshopped with The Metropolitan Opera and Washington National Opera. He appears with the Russian Chamber Art Society as Robert (Iolanta) at the French Embassy in Washington D.C. and debuts the role of Count Carl Magnus (A Little Night Music, St. Pete Opera) before reprising the role of Sylvio (I pagliacci, Opera Louisianne).
He recently came out of the Washington National Opera Cafritz Young Artist Program (2020-2022) where he made his Kennedy Center debut as Escamillo and Moralès in Francesca Zambello's production of Carmen. He made his Arizona Opera debut as Captain Von Trapp in another Zambello production, The Sound of Music in 2023.
His 2019-2020 season brought a return to The Atlanta Opera for his second season as the company’s resident studio baritone during which he performed First Nazerene in Strauss’ Salome and was slated to sing Yamadori and cover Sharpless in their production of Madama Butterfly prior to Covid-19. Other highlights prior to Covid-19 which may be rescheduled to a later date include a role debut as Silvio in the New Jersey Festival Orchestra‘s fully staged I Pagliacci. He made his international debut on the stage of the Château de Versailles as Beaumarchais in John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles, a role which he debuted with The Glimmerglass Festival in 2019 as well as the role of Baron Dauphol in Francesca Zambello’s production of La traviata with The Glimmerglass Festival and The Atlanta Opera.
2018-2019 highlights include covering the titular roles in Dead Man Walking and Eugene Onegin and performances as Motorcycle Cop/Prison Guard 1 and Zaretsy/Captain, respectively, in his first year as a Studio Artist at The Atlanta Opera. He made his Glimmerglass debut in the summer of 2018 singing Lieutenant Gordon in Tomer Zvulun’s production of Mark Campell’s and Kevin Putz’s Silent Night, and he covered Eric Owens in the role of Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen.
He has frequently appeared as a concert soloist in a number of master works, including Handel’s Messiah, Haydn's Missa in angustiis, Rossini's Petite messe solennelle, and sung with orchestras such as the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra.
Other roles include the title role in Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Danilo in Lehar’s The Merry Widow, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Owen Hart in Dead Man Walking, and Rambaldo in La rondine. He received his Master of Music degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studied with world-renowned baritone, Wolfgang Brendel, and he holds a Bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Louisiana State University.