In the 2024/25 season the American bass-baritone Nicholas Newton made his debut at the Paris Opéra as Mars, Jupiter and An Athlete in Peter Sellars’s new production of Castor et Pollux under Teodor Currentzis and sang Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Leporello in a new production of Don Giovanni at the Opera Philadelphia. On the concert platform he appeared in Haydn’s The Creation with Boston Baroque, in Handel’s Messiah with the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra and in Purcell’s The Indian Queen with Utopia under Teodor Currentzis in Paris, Berlin and Antwerp.
Nicholas Newton’s engagements in the 2023/24 season included the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Intelligence at the Houston Grand Opera, Alidoro (La Cenerentola) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, a new production of John Adams’s El Niño at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and Leporello and the world premiere of Gregory Spears’s The Righteous at the Santa Fe Opera.
Highlights of previous seasons have included his Salzburg Festival debut in The Indian Queen under Teodor Currentzis in August 2023, Peter in Richard Jones’s acclaimed production of Hänsel und Gretel under Andrew Davis at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Cincinnati Opera and the Santa Fe Opera, Rodelinda at the Metropolitan Opera and Serse at the Detroit Opera.
At the Houston Grand Opera, which Nicholas Newton considers his ‘home company’, he has appeared in the world premieres of Joel Thompson’s The Snowy Day and Damien Sneed’s Marian’s Song and in numerous other productions, including Barrie Kosky’s acclaimed staging of Handel’s Saul, Roméo et Juliette, Rigoletto, Salome and Tosca.
Nicholas Newton is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, and also trained at the Wolf Trap Opera, as a Young Artist at the Aspen Music Festival, at the Young Artist Vocal Academy of the Houston Grand Opera and as part of the programme ‘Opera Exposed’ at the San Diego Opera. He studied at San Diego State University and subsequently under Dr Stephen King at Rice University in Houston.
