In the 2022/23 season the young bass-baritone Nicholas Newton made his debut as Peter the Broom-Maker (Hänsel und Gretel) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago under Andrew Davis. He also appeared as Ariodate in Handel’s Serse under Jane Glover at the Detroit Opera, as Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Cincinnati Opera, as Second Soldier (Salome) under Keri-Lynn Wilson at the Houston Grand Opera and as Monterone (Rigoletto) under Emmanuel Villaume at the Dallas Opera. He makes his European debut at the Salzburg Festival in The Indian Queen.
In 2023/24 his engagements will include the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Intelligence in Houston, Alidoro (La Cenerentola) in Chicago and a new production of John Adams’s El Niño at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Recent engagements have included Don Basilio at the Santa Fe Opera, and the world premiere of Joel Thompson’s The Snowy Day and Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette) under Patrick Summers in Houston.
Nicholas Newton studied singing at San Diego State University and at Rice University in Houston. He was a member of the opera studio of the Houston Grand Opera and also a Studio Artist and Filene Artist at the Wolf Trap Opera. He also took part in the Young Artists Vocal Academy in Houston and the San Diego Opera’s training programme ‘Opera Exposed!’
