Bass Liam Moran is a recent alumnus of the Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist Program, where he sang featured roles in productions including Le nozze di Figaro, Eugene Onegin, The Rape of Lucretia, Aida, La Bohème and Flight. For Ash Lawn Opera, Liam recently sang the dual roles of Masetto and Commendatore in their summer production of Don Giovanni, under the baton of Christopher Larkin. This season, he returns as a guest artist to sing three performances of Seneca in the Juilliard Vocal Arts Program production of L’incoronazione di Poppea. Liam then sings in Haydn’s Creation with the Pittsburgh Concert Chorale, and makes his debut with Boston Lyric Opera as Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

 

The young bass recently appearanced with Austin Lyric Opera as Colline in La bohème, Opera Omaha as Angelotti in Tosca, and in two consecutive seasons at Wolf Trap Opera as Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos, Melisso in Alcina and Sirocco in L’Étoile. He has taken part in the Young American Artists Program at Glimmerglass Opera, and in the prestigious Merola Opera program with San Francisco Opera.

 

Mr. Moran’s concert repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to contemporary composers, and he has performed with orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, Musica Angelica, the Palm Beach Symphony and Washington Concert Opera. A lover of new music, he has sung under the batons of John Adams and Krzysztof Penderecki and performed in premieres of works by David Carlson, Steven Hartke and Richard Rodney Bennett.  He is a prize winner in the Florida Grand Opera Competition and Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions/New England region. Mr. Moran is a graduate of both McGill University in Montreal and the Yale School of Music.