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The British-American tenor, Joshua Blue, earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio in 2016, and his Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School of Music in New York in 2018, studying with Dr. Robert C. White, Jr. He was a semi-finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2018) and sang on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in April 2018. He has also received the Ellen Lopin Blair award for 1st place in the 2017 Oratorio Society of New York solo competition (2017), and was noted as an Emerging Artist in the 2017 Opera Index Competition in New York City (2017). He is Toulmin Foundation Scholar, and Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist with the Washington National Opera (2018-2019).
In 2017-2018, Joshua Blue debuted at Carnegie Hall in George Frideric Handel's Messiah with Musica Sacra, and returned again to perform in the world premier of Moravec's Sanctuary Road with Oratorio Society of New York. He also made debuts at Merkin Concert Hall with New York Festival of Song, and with Austin Opera as Scaramuccio in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. In recent Summers, He has been an Apprentice Singer with the Santa Fe Opera (2018), a Gaddes Festival Artist with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (2017) where he sang in the American Premier of Philip Glass's The Trial, and a Vocal Fellow with Music Academy of the West (2017) where he portrayed Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore.
As an artist with Washington National Opera, Joshua Blue recently made his Kennedy Center main stage debut as Alfredo Germont in Verdi's La Traviata (Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Performance). Throughout the WNO season, he will perform as Hippo/Holy man/Dog/Water Seller in Tesori's The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me; David in Benavides's Pepito, as part of the American Opera Initiative Festival; and Monsieur Triquet in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. He will also be returning to Carnegie Hall as the tenor soloist in Verdi's Requiem with the Oratorio Society of New York. This summer, Blue joins Wolf Trap Opera as a Filene Artist, singing the role of Harlekin in Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis. |
