ANTHONY REED, bass
ARTIST WEBSITE: https://www.anthonyreedbass.com
Bass Anthony Reed recently graduated from Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center Program. Highlights from his time there include mainstage appearances in Tosca / Sciarrone, Die Zauberflöte / Second Armored Guard, and Madama Butterfly / Comissioner among others. This Fall he will perform with the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago (CAIC) in recital, as well as in a coproduction of The Rape of Lucretia / Collatinus between Britten Pears Arts and the Royal Opera. During 2020/21 virtual programming he appeared with CAIC and with Lyric in Master Classes with Sir Andrew Davis, Sole e Amore, Magical Music Around the World, and Rising Stars in Concert. His operatic repertory contains such roles as Sarastro / Die Zauberflöte, Don Basilio / Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Frère Laurent / Roméo et Juliette. In concert he has performed Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem, and covered the notoriously challenging bass part in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. In addition he has been heard in multiple unique recitals on Chicago’s WFMT NPR station. A recipient of awards from the American Opera Society, National Society of Arts and Letters, and Shoshana Foundation, and with recognition from Opera News as “uncommonly articulate” with “…a great deal of tonal nuance” Reed is being recognized as a rising basso cantante. With degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire as well as affiliations with San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellowship, Merola Opera Program, Wolf Trap Opera, Britten Pears Arts, and the George Solti Academy he has had the opportunity to work with world-class conductors, directors, stage managers, costume and makeup designers, teachers, coaches, and GRAMMY awarded symphonies and pianists.
Photo: Andrew Bogard
Bass Anthony Reed recently graduated from Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center Program. Highlights from his time there include mainstage appearances in Tosca / Sciarrone, Die Zauberflöte / Second Armored Guard, and Madama Butterfly / Comissioner among others. This Fall he will perform with the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago (CAIC) in recital, as well as in a coproduction of The Rape of Lucretia / Collatinus between Britten Pears Arts and the Royal Opera. During 2020/21 virtual programming he appeared with CAIC and with Lyric in Master Classes with Sir Andrew Davis, Sole e Amore, Magical Music Around the World, and Rising Stars in Concert. His operatic repertory contains such roles as Sarastro / Die Zauberflöte, Don Basilio / Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Frère Laurent / Roméo et Juliette. In concert he has performed Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem, and covered the notoriously challenging bass part in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. In addition he has been heard in multiple unique recitals on Chicago’s WFMT NPR station. A recipient of awards from the American Opera Society, National Society of Arts and Letters, and Shoshana Foundation, and with recognition from Opera News as “uncommonly articulate” with “…a great deal of tonal nuance” Reed is being recognized as a rising basso cantante. With degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire as well as affiliations with San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellowship, Merola Opera Program, Wolf Trap Opera, Britten Pears Arts, and the George Solti Academy he has had the opportunity to work with world-class conductors, directors, stage managers, costume and makeup designers, teachers, coaches, and GRAMMY awarded symphonies and pianists.
Photo: Andrew Bogard
22 / 23 CAIC APPEARANCES
2022 Collaborative Works Festival - CONCERT III: The American Songbag