JASON HARDY

BASS

Of his debut with New York City Opera in Acis and Galatea, Opera News remarked that the role of Polyphemus was “brilliantly played by Jason Hardy."

Recent engagements for Mr. Hardy include Leporello in Don Giovanni with Orlando Opera, Colline in La bohème with Berkshire Opera, Basilio in Barber of Seville and Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Opera Birmingham, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte with Connecticut Opera, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore with Cleveland Opera, 5th Jew in Salome with Baltimore Opera, Colline in La bohème with Palm Beach Opera, Frank in Die Fledermaus with the Merola Opera Program of the San Francisco Opera, an opera gala with Opéra de Montréal, as well as Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd and Don Magnifico in La cenerentola with Wolf Trap Opera. Other roles have included Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, Uberto in La Serva Padrona, Crespel in The Tales of Hoffmann, and the Count in Manon. Mr. Hardy has also sung the role of Parsons under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel in the pre-production recording of his new opera, 1984. Upcoming engagements include the title role in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Cleveland, and Cadmus/Somnus in Semele with Florentine Opera.

The bass was a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, National Finalist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago Center for American Artists, Grand Prize-winner of both the Florida Grand Opera Competition and the Heinz Rehfuss Singing Actor Competition, and a winner in the Liederkranz Foundation, Palm Beach Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Birmingham, Connecticut Opera, and the Oratorio Society of New York vocal competitions. He is also the recipient of a Sullivan Foundation Career Grant.

On the concert platform, Mr. Hardy has given numerous performances at Carnegie Hall, including Mozart’s Requiem and Ein Deutches Requiem by Brahms, both under the baton of John Rutter.  Concert highlights also include debuts at the Kennedy Center, Avery Fisher Hall, and appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra, National Chorale, New York Choral Society, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.  Performances have included: Bach’s Magnificat, St. John Passion, and Mass in B Minor; The Creation and Harmoniemesse of Haydn; as well as Mass in C Minor, Messiah, L’Enfance du Christ, Dona Nobis Pacem, Fauré’s Requiem, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.