The Texas-born tenor Aaron-Casey Gould is an ensemble member of the Vienna Volksoper. He has been supported by the French Fondation Signature and in 2023 won second prize at the Concours International des Grandes Voix d’Opéra d’Afrique.
Recent highlights have included Hump-backed Gambler in Prokofiev’s The Gambler at the Salzburg Festival, Father Confessor of the Convent (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Dallas Opera, Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and Spalanzani/Nathanaël (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at the Volksoper. He also appeared in a summer concert given by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Ben Glassberg in Bergen’s Nygårdsparken.
His engagements in the 2026/27 season will include Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Second Jew (Salome) at the Volksoper and the tenor solo in Carmina Burana at the Vienna Konzerthaus.
Aaron-Casey Gould studied Meisner Technique at the Matthew Corozin Acting Studio and the Stella Adler Center for the Arts in New York. He went on to study singing at the Moores School of Music of the University of Houston and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
He made his debut with the New York City Opera in the world premiere of Iain Bell’s Stonewall and appeared in the Off-Broadway production For the Love of Friends. He also portrayed Dee Legendary in Joseph N. Rubinstein’s House of Legendary in a co-production of the American Opera Project and the Seagle Festival.
He has participated in HBO masterclasses with Bobby McFerrin and Renée Fleming and appeared in the short films Pure and The Contract Musical and in the series InnerViews with Ernie Manouse.
Concert engagements have taken him to the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique in Paris, the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Walter Hall in Toronto and the Warner Bros. Studios in Los Angeles.
His important roles at the Volksoper other than those already mentioned have included Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Camille de Rosillon (Die lustige Witwe), Fenton (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) and Prince Caprice in Offenbach’s Le Voyage dans la lune (Die Reise zum Mond).
