Jamez McCorkle

This season, McCorkle makes two exciting role debuts as Florestan Fidelio at the Washington National Opera which he also performs at Opéra national de Bordeaux; and as Siegmund Die Walküre at Santa Fe Opera. Another important highlight is his company debut at Staatsoper Hamburg as Bacchus in a highly anticipated new Dimitri Tcherniakov production of Ariadne auf Naxos. On the concert platform he makes a double appearance with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Verdi’s Requiem and Wagner’s Das Rheingold as Froh; and with St Louis Symphony with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Last season, Omar premiered at the San Francisco Opera with McCorkle in the title role, making his company debut. He then sang his first Bacchus in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen and his first Laca in in Robert Carsen’s production of Jenůfa at Vlaamse Opera. On the concert platform he performed Handel’s Messiah at the US Naval Academy, sang Froh Das Rheingold with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi and performed Das Lied von der Erde with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Recent highlights include his hailed return to Spoleto Festival for an innovative staged production of Schumann’s Dichterliebe where he performed the famous song cycle accompanying himself at the piano; Duke of Cornwall Lear at the Bayerische Staatsoper; his house and role debut as Telemaco in a new production of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with Theatre Basel; Peter the Honeyman in the hugely acclaimed production of Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera; Leonard Woolfe in Kevin Puts’ new opera The Hours with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin; performances of Britten War Requiem with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Tamino Die Zauberflöte with Kentucky Opera; Lensky Eugene Onegin with Michigan Opera Theatre and at the Spoleto Festival, where he also sang Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.

A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, McCorkle is an alumnus of the Mannes College, The New School for Music and Loyola University, New Orleans. He was a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich and took part in the Young Artist Program of the Salzburg Festival in 2017. McCorkle was a finalist in the coveted Neue Stimmen competition in 2019 and is a winner of several awards and competitions including the George London Competition, Sullivan Foundation, Brava! Opera Competition, National Opera Association Vocal Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Gulf Coast Region.