Great Artists Series '26: Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor and Bryan Wagorn, piano
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Great Artists Series '26: Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor and Bryan Wagorn, piano

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(Washington University Box Office - 314-935-6543)
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**All programs subject to change
TBA

“Vocally brilliant and dramatically fearless”
- The New York Times

“A bona-fide star” - The New Yorker“A perfect musician” - Le Monde

Biographies

Anthony Roth Costanzo

Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. As of June 2024, he is the General Director and President of Opera Philadelphia. Costanzo has appeared with many of the world’s most prestigious opera companies and orchestras including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Opera National de Paris, Teatro Real, New York Philharmonic The Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, Berlin Philharmonic, NDR at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and the London Symphony Orchestra, among others. This season, he produces and stars in The Seasons, a new work incorporating the music of Vivaldi and co-created with and written by the renowned playwright and poet Sarah Ruhl, and he stars in and creates a one-man rendition of The Nozze di Figaro in the inaugural season of Little Island’s new performing arts series in New York. He also returns to the Detroit Opera for Rinaldo and will be presented in recital in Herbst Theater by San Francisco Performances. His most recent album, Anthony Roth Costanzo & Justin Vivian Bond: Only an Octave Apart was released in January 2022, and his first album, ARC was released in September 2018 and was nominated for the 2019 GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. He also stars on the Metropolitan Opera’s recording and DVD of Akhnaten which won the 2022 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording. As a producer, he has created projects for Opera Philadelphia, The New York Philharmonic, The BBC Proms, WQXR, and St. Ann’s Warehouse among others. Costanzo was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in a Merchant Ivory film and graduated with honors from Princeton University, and the Manhattan School of Music, where he is now on the board of trustees, along with being on the board of National Black Theater. Costanzo also has an Honorary Doctorate from Manhattan School of Music, a History Makers Award from the New York Historical Society, has been a visiting fellow at Oxford University, and a distinguished visiting scholar at Harvard University. 

Bryan Wagorn

Canadian-American pianist Bryan Wagorn serves as Assistant Conductor at The Metropolitan Opera. He has appeared on such television and radio stations as Good Morning America, WQXR and CBC Radio. He regularly performs with the Met Chamber Ensemble in concerts at Carnegie Hall and performed as pianist in the Met’s Grammy-winning productions of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in my Bones and Champion. He recently performed the role of pianist Boleslao Lazinski onstage at the Metropolitan Opera in their 2023 production of Giordano’s Fedora directed by David McVicar, the role having been last performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet. As a conductor he collaborated with Angel Blue and the LA Opera on a digital short film with music by David Lang directed by Bill Morrison. He also performed and recorded on the Met Museum’s Cristofori fortepiano, the oldest such instrument in existence. In 2022 he performed in Carnegie Hall’s gala fundraiser for Ukraine in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium along such artists as Angel Blue, Denyce Graves, Isabel Leonard, Midori, and Evgeny Kissin. 

Mr. Wagorn has been engaged by summer festivals including Tanglewood, Ravinia, Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Marlboro, Seiji Ozawa’s Matsumoto festival, and has served on the faculties of the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada’s Summer Music Institute, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, and Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra. He has performed with internationally acclaimed artists including Angel Blue, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Lise Davidsen, Joyce DiDonato, Midori, Nadine Sierra, and Pinchas Zukerman. He has been a guest teacher at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto, the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Glynebourne’s Jerwood Young Artist Program, and the McGill Schulich School of Music. 

He made his solo recital debut at New York's Carnegie Hall in 2009 and has also appeared at the Library of Congress, the United Nations General Assembly, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro di San Carlo in Napoli, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Hamburg Opera, Summer Stage in New York’s Central Park, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and he has also toured extensively with Jeunesses Musicales. He has also performed recitals for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Richard Tucker Foundation, and George London Foundation. Mr. Wagorn is on the advisory boards of the Hildegard Behrens Foundation and the Bagby Foundation, and serves on faculty at the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, the Mannes College of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. 

Mr. Wagorn is a Steinway artist.
 

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