Baltimore-born baritone Daniel Rich is a recent graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. His 2024-2025 Season included debuts with Opera Philadelphia as both the Dillon and Paul covers in Mazzoli’s The Listeners, Atlanta Opera as Raymond in the premiere of Ragland’s Steele Roots, return to The Metropolitan Opera as 2nd Nazarene cover in Strauss’ Salome, debut with Opera Delaware and a return to Opera Baltimore with his role debut of Marcello in La Boheme. Daniel’s concert work included a tour of Angela Rice’s Thy Will Be Done with Compose Arts, Handel’s Israel in Egypt with New Choral Society, two recitals for Opera Baltimore and Redeemer Westside. In recent seasons, he appeared at The Metropolitan Opera as Pâris in Roméo et Juliette, Chester in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, made his Met debut during the 2022–23 season as a Waiter in Der Rosenkavalier and covered the Count of Lerma in Don Carlo. In Summer 2024 he made his company debut at Des Moines Metro Opera, where he appeared as the First Nazarene, covered Jochanaan in Salome, and sung Willie McDonald in the premiere of Damien Geter and Lila Palmer’s American Apollo. Other operatic engagements include Masetto in Don Giovanni at Wolf Trap Opera, Valentin in Faust at Opera Baltimore, and various roles in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar, including its world premiere at the Spoleto Festival in 2022 and revival at Carolina Performing Arts in 2023. On the concert stage, he has appeared as a featured soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, Brahms Requiem with Capitol Singers of Trenton, Orff’s Carmina Burana with both the Richmond Symphony and Berkshire Choral International, and a concert of sacred music by Mary Lou Williams & Duke Ellington with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall, among others. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2019 as a soloist in Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music under the baton of Leonard Slatkin and returned to Carnegie Hall in January 2025 as a soloist for the premiere of Sir Karl Jenkins’ One World. In 2025, he was named the third place winner of the Partners For The Arts Vocal Competition. Other competition wins include second place winner of Opera Columbus’ Cooper-Bing Competition, 1st place winner of the George Shirley Vocal Competition, emerging artist winner of the inaugural Duncan Williams Vocal Competition, second place in Opera Ebony’s Benjamin Matthews Vocal Competition, first place in the Black Brilliance Art Song Competition, and first place in The Mario Lanza Institute Vocal Competition. Daniel has found early success as a concert artist and recitalist performing for organizations such as Baltimore Musicales, Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts, and Harlem Opera Theatre to name a few. In addition to his extensive performance experience, he has worked as a music educator in public schools and in fall 2025 will return for his second year as an adjunct professor of voice at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He holds degrees from Morgan State University and Manhattan School of Music, where he received the Edgar Foster Daniels Scholarship in Voice.
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