Quinn Kelsey

The Hawaiian baritone, a Ryan Opera Center alumnus and 2015 winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Award, has recently appeared as Rigoletto (San Francisco, Toronto, London, Zurich, Oslo, Santa Fe, and Paris), Germont/La traviata (Covent Garden), Falstaff (Saito Kinen Festival), Ezio/Attila (San Francisco), Paolo/Simon Boccanegra (Rome), Amonasro/Aida (Lyric, Metropolitan Opera, Bregenz, San Francisco), Count di Luna/Il trovatore (Dresden, San Francisco), and Montfort/Les vêpres siciliennes (Frankfurt). Kelsey’s operatic repertoire additionally encompasses Sancho/Don Quichotte (Toronto), Zurga/The Pearl Fishers (London), Athanaël/Thaïs (Edinburgh), and the Forester/The Cunning Little Vixen (Japan, Florence). He has presented recitals at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall, and has performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the San Francisco Symphony (CD, Grammy award).