Baritone
Recipient of the Robin Angly & Miles Smith Award
Adrian Sanchez, baritone, currently sings with Kentucky Opera in their Barbara and Halsey Sandford Studio Program. This 2018-2019 season features his company debut as the Speaker and Second Armored Man (The Magic Flute) and Marullo (Rigoletto), followed by a debut with Opéra Louisiane as Morales (Carmen). Sanchez’s 2017-2018 season included his Indianapolis Opera debut as Marquis d’Obigny while covering Germont (La traviata), an apprenticeship at Sarasota Opera, and covered Jud Fry (Oklahoma!) and Marullo (Rigoletto) at Charlottesville Opera. Additionally, Sanchez has performed Schaunard (La bohème) with the Muddy River Opera Company and Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte) with Oberlin’s In Italy summer program. While completing his graduate studies, Sanchez covered renowned American baritone, Nathan Gunn, as Zulfikar in the orchestra workshop of Mohammad Fairouz’s new opera, Bhutto. He also premiered the role of Petrus in Jeremy Gill’s orchestra performance of Letters from Quebec to Providence in the Rain. A native of Haslett, Michigan, Sanchez received his master’s in music from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds degrees in both performance and music education from Michigan State University. He is a second place winner of the 2018 Lois Alba Aria Competition and is the student of Metropolitan Opera alumnus, Richard Fracker.
Photo by Gwen Juarez
