Will Liverman

This fall the remarkable young American baritone will return to the Metropolitan Opera to star in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones (company premiere). At the Met he will also reprise his portrayals of Horemhab/Akhnaten and Papageno/The Magic Flute. Among other Met credits is Nico Muhly’s Marnie (American premiere). Next season Liverman is also scheduled to appear at LA Opera (Leporello/Don Giovanni), and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (Bob/William Grant Still’s Highway 1 U.S.A). Liverman will also co-curate OTSL’s Juneteenth Concert with soprano Nicole Cabell. The baritone’s new opera, The Factotum, written together with DJ/recording artist JK Rico, is being developed in partnership with Lyric Opera of Chicago and that company’s Ryan Opera Center, of which Liverman is an alumnus. Among his recent credits are Pantalone/The Love of Three Oranges (Philadelphia), Silvio/Pagliacci (Denver), Schaunard/La bohème (TDO, Santa Fe, Philadelphia), and the Pilot/The Little Prince (Tulsa). He originated the role of Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (Philadelphia, subsequent performances in London, Chicago, Madison, and New York). Liverman is the 2020 recipient of the 2020 Marian Anderson Vocal Award.