Will Liverman

This season the much-acclaimed American baritone, 2020 recipient of the Marian Anderson Vocal Award, will be prominently featured at 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). Next season Liverman returns 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 Malcolm Fleet/Nico Muhly’s Marnie (American premiere). Liverman’s new opera, The Factotum, written 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 Silvio/Pagliacci (Denver), Schaunard/La bohème (TDO, Santa Fe, Philadelphia), the Pilot/The Little Prince (Tulsa), and Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (Philadelphia world premiere, subsequent performances in London, Chicago, Madison, and New York). Newly released is Liverman’s first album, Dreams of a New Day—Songs by Black Composers.