Jamez McCorkle

The 2025/26 season sees McCorkle make three appearances as Siegmund: with Daniel Harding and the Orchestre de Paris; with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; and with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic. He will also make a series of important debuts starting with his Royal Ballet & Opera debut in their production of Boris Godunov as Grigoriy and at Tiroler Festspiele Erl, debuting both as Parsifal and Erik Der fliegende Holländer. He will also return as Bacchus Ariadne auf Naxos at Staatsoper Hamburg and perform at the Hungarian State Opera as Florestan Fidelio.

Last season, McCorkle made two exciting role debuts as Florestan Fidelio at the Washington National Opera which he also performed at Opéra national de Bordeaux; and as Siegmund Die Walküre at Santa Fe Opera. Another important highlight was his company debut at Staatsoper Hamburg as Bacchus in Dimitri Tcherniakov’s highly anticipated new production of Ariadne auf Naxos. On the concert platform he made 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.

Recent highlights include Omar’s premier at the San Francisco Opera with McCorkle in the title role, making his company debut; Bacchus in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen; Laca in in Robert Carsen’s production of Jenůfa at Vlaamse Opera; 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; Tamino Die Zauberflöte with Kentucky Opera; Lensky Eugene Onegin with Michigan Opera Theatre. 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; performed Das Lied von der Erde with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra; 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; Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony at the Spoleto Festival; and Britten’s War Requiem with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

McCorkle 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.