The baritone Robert Raso studied at the A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute (University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem), the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester) and the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music in Pittsburgh. In student productions he has sung roles such as Jack Absolute in Kirke Mechem’s The Rivals, Rodomonte in Haydn’s Orlando paladino, Enrico in Donizetti’s Maria di Rohan and Marcaniello in Pergolesi’s Lo frate ’nnamorato (UNCSA); Mr Johannes ‘Pa’ Zegner in Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up, Rapunzel’s Prince in Sondheim’s Into the Woods and Ophémon in Joseph Bologne’s L’Amant anonyme (Eastman) and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Count Robinson in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte (CMU).
In the 2024/25 season Robert Raso was resident artist with the Toledo Opera, where he appeared as Angelotti (Tosca) and Luther Billis in the musical South Pacific.
He has also sung Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor) and Dandini (La Cenerentola) at the Mediterranean Opera Studio and Festival in Caltagirone (Sicily) and created the role of Border Guard in Soosan Lolavar’s ID, Please at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival in London.
