Norman Garrett

American baritone Norman Garrett, who has been called “scene-stealing” by The New York Times, is enjoying a varied and exciting career. In the 2021–22 season, he made his house and role debut at Seattle Opera as the Count in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. He also returned to the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago as the Foreman/Adult James in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, and reprised the role of Jim in Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera. He also sang Jake in Porgy and Bess with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra on tour at the Lucerne Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, with conductor Alan Gilbert.

On the concert stage, Norman Garrett has made many important appearances, including Carmina Burana with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, in a Gershwin program with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and as the Marchese in La traviata with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. He has also sung a concert of American music with the Cleveland Orchestra, Escamillo in concert with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the National Philharmonic at The Music Center at Strathmore and the Rogue Valley Symphony in Ashland, Oregon.

Norman Garrett is a former winner of the George London Foundation Competition, and has received top prizes in more than a dozen international vocal competitions, including the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation, the Jensen Foundation, the Giulio Gari Foundation, Fort Worth Opera’s McCammon Competition, and the Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition.