Paul Appleby, tenor

Paul Appleby is in his second year of the Artist Diploma in Opera Studies Program at Juilliard, where he most recently performed the role of Chevalier de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites and Martin in Copland’s The Tender Land.  He is also in his first year of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Recent engagements include Fenton (Falstaff, Juilliard Opera), Agenore (Il re pastore, Opera Theatre of St. Louis) and Eumete (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Wolf Trap Opera Company). As a recitalist, he has performed extensively with Steven Blier and was the 2009 winner of the Joy in Singing Competition. Mr. Appleby is a National Winner of the 2009 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a recipient of a 2009 Sara Tucker study grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. Upcoming engagements include Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Cincinnati May Festival, and Gomatz in Mozart’s Zaïde and Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Wolf Trap Opera Company. Next season at the Met, Mr. Appleby will perform Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos. He has sung with NYFOS in Songs of Peace and War (2007), Island Journeys (2007), No Song is Safe from Us (2008), A Modern Person’s Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up (2008), Bastianello and Lucrezia (2008), The Last Time I Saw Paris (2008), Latin Lovers (2009), and Songs of the Irish Poets (2009).