“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
Byron Singleton has performed in opera and concerts throughout the United States.
Opera roles include, Riccardo "Un Ballo in Maschera" , Rodolfo "La Boheme" , Rinuccio "Gianni Schicchi", Nemorino "L'Elisir D'amore, B.F. Pinkerton "Madama Butterfly", Benedict "Beatrice and Benedict", Alfredo "La Traviata",Tamino "Die Zauberflote" , and Count Belfiore "La Finta Giardiniera" among others. Performance venues include Carnegie Hall, The Rose Theater, David Geffen Hall, The Metropolitan Opera, Caramoor Opera, DiCapo Opera, Martha Cardona Theater, Little Opera Company of New York, Hudson Opera, Opera Company of Astoria, Cantiamo Opera, Opera New Jersey, Diamond Opera Theater.
Some role highlights include Manrico in Vera Musica Opera's production of "Il Trovatore" , Tenor Soloist in Verdi's Requiem, Forresto in "Attila" with Empire Opera, Riccardo in "Un Ballo in Maschera" at Symphony Space, Boleslav and Canio(cover) in Atlantic Coast Festival Opera's double bill of "Polinische Hochzeit" and "I Pagliacci" , Der Steuermann in "Der Fliegende Hollander" with the United Nations Orchestra and the tenor soloist in Mozart's C Minor Mass with the Astoria Symphony.
Recently, he was a featured soloist in Tituss Burgess’s “Take me to the World” -A Tribute to Sondheim concert at Carnegie Hall.
Other recent highlights include Cavaradossi with MORE Opera in a new production of "Tosca" conceived and conducted by Maestro Anton Coppola, the title role in “Judas Maccabaeus”, and the Tenor Soloist in Haydn's "Lord Nelson Mass with Great Neck Choral Society. He recently co-produced and sang in a new reimagining of Schumann’s "Dichterliebe" with piano and dancer ensemble at the Mile Square Theater in Hoboken. In addition he made his Off-Broadway theatrical debut as the First Guard in Fusion Theater’s production of Anouilh’s “Antigone” on Theater Row, and was guest performer with the NY City Slickers’ Bluegrass to Broadway concert at Feinstein’s/54 Below.
In 2009 he was a finalist in the Mario Lanza Tenor Competition. Byron holds a B.M. in Voice from Northwestern University, and an M.M. in Opera Performance from Mannes college of Music.
Byron often describes himself as a man who “wears many hats.” In addition to being an opera singer and actor, he is also a Sanctavia practitioner, martial artist, voice teacher, and professional Vedic Astrologer.
“Byron has a very beautiful lyric tenor voice and sang the cycle like the great artists of the past.”
-Hudson Register Star, Review for “Dichterleibe”
“A brilliant, beautiful, ringing tenor voice, delivered with generous and unabashedly ardent lyricism. An uncompromising artist who is always searching for artistic truth.”
-Brian Holman. Music Director/Conductor, New Rochelle Opera
“Byron Singleton possesses a tenor voice of great beauty and fluidity.”
-Ira Siff. Weekly Commentator, Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts
Byron Singleton possesses a tenor voice of exceptional virility and beauty, which he uses passionately and with great artistic expression.
- Francisco Chahin-Casanova; Tenor, Metropolitan Opera
“Byron Singleton has a lovely voice and is an honest and compelling artist.” - Maestro Anton Coppola