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Charles Taylor Baritone

A native of Arizona, Charles Taylor has been praised for the beauty and power of his nascent Verdian voice. He is a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Development Program which he joined at the beginning of the 2002-2003 season after being selected as a winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2001. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut that season in the role of the Herald in Otello.

In the 2008-2009 season, Taylor makes his Houston Grand Opera debut as Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana and Tonio in Pagliacci, with Oleg Caetani conducting. Taylor also performs Cavalleria at the Met, alongside Roberto Alagna and José Cura in the Franco Zeffirelli production. Later this season, Taylor appears as Donner in Das Rheingold in the final incarnation of the Met’s famed Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine.

Mr. Taylor was a prizewinner at the 2002 Liederkranz Foundation Competition and First Place winner in the 1999 High Plains Singing Competition Senior Division. Mr. Taylor has recently been selected as a recitalist for the Marylin Horne Foundation, and a scholarship recipient for the Wagner Society of New York.

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