Baltimore-born baritone Daniel Rich is a recent graduate of The
Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist
Development Program. In the 2025-2026 season, Mr. Rich will
make his début in the role of Amonasro in Aida with Anchorage
Opera, return to The Metropolitan Opera for their productions of
Arabella and El último sueño de Frida y Diego, and appear with
Winston-Salem Symphony for their concert of Handel’s Messiah.
His 2024-2025 season included débuts with Opera Philadelphia as
both the Dillon and Paul covers in Mazzoli’s The Listeners, as well
as The Atlanta Opera as Raymond in the premiere of Ragland’s
Steele Roots. He also returned to The Metropolitan Opera as the
2nd Nazarene cover in Strauss’ Salome, and he débuted with
Opera Delaware and returned to Opera Baltimore with his role
début of Marcello in La Boheme. Daniel’s concert work included a tour of Angela Rice’s Thy Will Be Done
with Compose Arts, Handel’s Israel in Egypt with New Choral Society, and two recitals for Opera Baltimore
and Redeemer Westside.
In recent seasons, he appeared at The Metropolitan Opera as Pâris in Roméo et Juliette and Chester in
Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Mr. Rich made his Met début during the 2022–23 season as
a Waiter in Der Rosenkavalier and covered the Count of Lerma in Don Carlo. In 2024, he made his company
début at Des Moines Metro Opera, where he appeared as the First Nazarene and covered Jochanaan in
Salome, and sang Willie McDonald in the premiere of Damien Geter and Lila Palmer’s American Apollo.
Other operatic engagements include Masetto in Don Giovanni at Wolf Trap Opera, Valentin in Faust at
Opera Baltimore, and various roles in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera
Omar, including its world premiere at the Spoleto Festival in 2022 and revival at Carolina Performing Arts
in 2023. On the concert stage, he has appeared as a featured soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, Brahms’ Requiem with Capitol Singers of Trenton, Orff’s Carmina Burana
with both the Richmond Symphony and Berkshire Choral International, and a concert of sacred music by
Mary Lou Williams and Duke Ellington with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall,
among others. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2019 as a soloist in Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to
Music under the baton of Leonard Slatkin and returned to Carnegie Hall in January of 2025 as a soloist for
the premiere of Sir Karl Jenkins’ One World.
In 2025, he was named the third-place winner of the Partners for The Arts Vocal Competition. Other
competition wins include second-place winner of Opera Columbus’ Cooper-Bing Competition, first-place
winner of the George Shirley Vocal Competition, emerging artist winner of the inaugural Duncan Williams
Vocal Competition, second-place winner in Opera Ebony’s Benjamin Matthews Vocal Competition, firstplace
winner in the Black Brilliance Art Song Competition, and first-place winner in The Mario Lanza
Institute Vocal Competition. Daniel has found early success as a concert artist and recitalist performing for
organizations such as Baltimore Musicales, Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts, and
Harlem Opera Theatre to name a few.
In addition to his extensive performance experience, he has worked as a music educator in public schools,
and, in the fall of 2025, he will return for his second year as an adjunct professor of voice at the University
of Maryland-Baltimore County. He holds degrees from Morgan State University and Manhattan School of
Music, where he received the Edgar Foster Daniels Scholarship in Voice.
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