JARRETT OTT
BARITONE
JARRETT OTT
BARITONE
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American baritone Jarrett Ott, one of Opera News’ twenty-five “Rising Stars,” and called “a man who is seemingly incapable of an unmusical phrase,” is enjoying an international career at the age of 37. In the 24/25 season, Mr. Ott will make his Metropolitan Opera debut singing Agrippa in John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra, and reprise Rameau’s Samson with the Opéra Comique in Paris. Other appearances include Conte in Le nozze di Figaro with Teatro Regio di Torino, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with the Grand Théâtre de Genève, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, and concert appearances with the Grand Teatro del Liceu as Riff in West Side Story, Raphaël Pichon at the Paris Philharmonie for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, as well as this same work with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées on tour in Europe, and a tour of Mozart’s Requiem with Philippe Herreweghe and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
In the 23/24 season, Jarrett Ott performed the title role in Rameau’s newly completed Samson with Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the title role in Pascal Dusapin’s Macbeth Underworld with Opéra Comique, Colonel Álvaro Gómez in a new production by Calixto Bieito’s of The Exterminating Angel by Thomas Adès with Opéra national de Paris, and Don Pedro de Alvarado in Purcell’s The Indian Queen with Teodor Currentzis and the Salzburg Festival. In concert, Jarrett joined the Colorado Symphony and Oregon Bach Festival for Vaughan-Williams’ A Sea Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra for Ralph Vaughan-Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, the US Naval Academy in Annapolis for Messiah and Symphoria in Syracuse, NY for an evening of opera favorites.
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In opera, Jarrett Ott’s recent work has included Opéra national de Paris as Oreste in Iphigenie en Tauride, the Bayerische Staatsoper as Dandini in La Cenerentola, Gran Teatre del Liceu as Lescaut in Manon, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with The Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, conducted by Emmauelle Haïm, and performed and with Staatstheater Stuttgart W.P. Inman in the East Coast premiere of Cold Mountain as well as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Philadelphia, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos, Maximilian in Candide and Masetto in Don Giovanni with The Santa Fe Opera, Figaro with Lyric Opera Kansas City and Dayton Opera, Conte in Le nozze di Figaro with Pittsburgh Opera, Jupiter in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld with New Orleans Opera, Curly in Oklahoma! with Glimmerglass Festival, Zurga in The Pearl Fishers with North Carolina Opera. Other role debuts included The Count in Strauss’ Capriccio, a co-production with Opera Philadelphia and Curtis Opera Theatre and Kenneth Fuchs’ Falling Man at Symphony Space and the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City. A former member of the Staatstheater Stuttgart Ensemble, he has performed Conte, Marcello in La bohème, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dandini, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Faust in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride and Chou En-lai in Nixon in China.
In concert, Jarrett Ott has performed the title role in David Lang’s world-premiere prisoner of the state with Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic, and later with Malmö Opera and Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Stephano with Susanna Mälkki in Sibelius’ The Tempest and in Weimar Nightfall: The Seven Deadly Sins, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, both at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has performed Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Seattle Symphony and Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Brahms’ Requiem with the Columbus Symphony, joined colleagues for the inaugural Sag Harbor Song Festival on Long Island, and with New York Choral Society, has appeared as soloist in Stanford’s Songs of the Fleet, Handel’s Israel in Egypt, both at Carnegie Hall, and The Hyland Mass, a world-premiere at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He made his European concert debut with the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, performing pieces by Vito Zuraj and Bach, conducted by Matthias Pintscher and also embarked on a European tour with Perm Opera, Teodor Currentzis and MusicAeterna as Don Pedro de Alvorado in concerts of Purcell’s Indian Queen, with stops in Geneva, Köln, Bremen and Dortmund. He was also a featured soloist with Emmauelle Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée for a gala event at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, which was later released on Warner Classics/Erato, and Maximilian in Candide with the Hamburg Symphoniker at the Lausitz Festival.
A native of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, Jarrett Ott is based in New York and received his master’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music.
RECENT PRAISE
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
HEIDI WALESON
The standout was Jarrett Ott as Curly, the lovesick cowboy in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”His very first line, “There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow,” sung from the back of the house, revealed a free, mellifluous baritone, full of life and sunshine, and it never flagged. A confident actor who is also very handsome, Mr. Ott will go far.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
ZACH WOOLFE
Two apprentices…especially the charismatic Jarrett Ott as Marullo in “Rigoletto,” made memorable cameos.
OPERA MAGAZINE
DAVID SHENGOLD
A “real” voice helps immeasurably here, and Jarrett Ott—ideally cast physically and dramatically—supplied a fantastically pliable and attractive baritone, sensitive to words and musical values. He dominated the evening,
OPERA NEWS
There’s a glut of gifted lyric baritone voices on the market; it’s hard not to wonder whether there will be enough work for all of them. Even in such company, however, twenty-eight-year-old JARRETT OTT stands out. A native of Argyl, Pennsylvania, and a former student of Marlena Malas at the Curtis Institute, he not only has a voice that is polished and immaculately produced; he is also a highly expressive artist, as he has proved in racking up a number of competition victories with Billy Budd’s “Look! Through the port….” Ott’s sound, both pointed and mellow, is ideal for certain Britten roles, and he would love to do a fully staged production of Billy Budd soon.
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