During the 2018-2019 season in Chicago, Mr. Kenney appeared as the Master of Ceremonies in Cendrillon and the Marquis d’Obigny in La traviata, while covering Schaunard in La bohème and the King in Cendrillon. Orchestral debuts included the Guide in  Bernstein’s Wonderful Town with Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony, and Bob or the Thief in Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief with the Grant Park Music Festival. He also presented a series of songs with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the 100^th Anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I.

Mr. Kenney was member of Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program during the 2017-2018 season, where he performed the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia, the Businessman in Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince, and Pa Zegner in the world-premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at the Kennedy Center. Additionally, he was a featured soloist in Bernstein’s Songfest with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin.

In the summer of 2017, Mr. Kenney was an apprentice artist at Santa Fe Opera, where he covered Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, while the summer before, he covered the role of Dandy in Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe as a studio artist at Central City Opera. Other roles in his repertoire include Papageno in The Magic Flute, the title role in Rubinstein’s The Demon, Marullo in Rigoletto, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, and Leporello in Don Giovanni.

A native of Hawley, Minnesota, Chris Kenney is a three-time winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions and winner of the 2014 Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition. He completed his undergraduate work at Concordia College, received his master’s degree at the University of Kentucky, and did post-graduate work at Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts.