The American baritone Cody Quattlebaum’s repertory stretches from the Baroque to contemporary works. He is equally sought after as an operatic and as a concert singer.
Highlights of the 2024/25 season include(d) the newly conceived Orff trilogy Trionfi under Kent Nagano and directed by Calixto Bieto at the Hamburg State Opera, Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) in his debut at the English National Opera, Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican Centre and in Las Palmas, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Riccardo Minasi, Jephtha with il Pomo d’Oro and Sciarrino’s Macbeth at the Salzburg Festival. In 2023/24 his appearances included Simon Steen-Andersen’s Don Giovanni’s Inferno at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde) at the Opéra de Rouen Normandie and Sciarrino’s Venere e Adone at the Hamburg State Opera.
Other major engagements have included the world premiere of Thierry Pécou’s Until the Lions, the first French performances of Braunfels’s Die Vögel at the Opéra national du Rhin, Masetto (Don Giovanni) at the San Francisco Opera and the Teatro Real in Madrid, Schaunard (La bohème) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, his BBC Proms debut with Handel’s Jephtha and Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette, and Handel’s Arminio at the International Handel Festival in Göttingen. He has also sung in Georg Muffat’s Missa in labore requies with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Oslo Philharmonic under Klaus Mäkelä, Hanns Eisler’s Deutsche Sinfonie with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and in a concert performance of Don Giovanni with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons at the Tanglewood Music Festival.
As a member of the opera studio of the Dutch National Opera, his 2018/19 engagements included Il matrimonio segreto and the world premiere of Micha Hamel’s Caruso a Cuba. Previously, as a member of the opera studio of the Zurich Opera House he sang in the world premiere of Der Traum von Dir, and in La fanciulla del West and Carmen.
Cody Quattlebaum is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati and of the Juilliard School. He was a finalist in the 2018 Glyndebourne Opera Cup and the 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and was the recipient of a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation.
