2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World main prize finalist, baritone Anthony Clark Evans returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago in the 2017 – 2018 season as Riccardo in I Puritani, opposite Larry Brownlee. Mr. Evans also makes an appearance on the annual Richard Tucker Gala at Carnegie Hall which will be broadcast nationally on PBS, as well as a soloist in Angela Rice’s Easter Oratorio Thy Will be Done with the National Chorale at David Geffen Hall. The 2016 – 2017 season saw Mr. Evans’ debut with the Metropolitan Opera as the Huntsman in Rusalka, which was broadcast to theatres around the world as part of the Met’s Live in HD program. Mr. Evans also made his San Francisco Opera debut as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly.