Grant Youngblood
Figaro

     Career highlights have included Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with San Francisco Opera; the title role in Don Giovanni, Scarpia in Tosca, Germont in La Traviata , Marcello in La Boheme , Sharpless in Madama Butterfly , Escamillo in Carmen, and Thoäs in Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride with New York City Opera; Dapertutto in Les Contes D'Hoffmann with Washington Opera; the title role in Rigoletto and Silvio in Pagliacci with Florida Grand Opera; Scarpia in Tosca, Tonio in Pagliacci, and Baritone in Carmina Burana (staged) with Orlando Opera; Amonasro in Aida and Michele in Il Tabarro with L'Opéra de Montréal; Germont in La Traviata with Orlando Opera, Tulsa Opera, Opera Memphis, and Virginia Opera; Scarpia in Tosca and Figaro in Il Barbiere Di Siviglia with Dayton Opera; the title role in Rigoletto and Count Di Luna in Il Trovatore with Virginia Opera; Enrico in Lucia DeLammermoor with Indianapolis Opera and Cleveland Opera; the Count in Le Nozze Di Figaroand Achilles in Giulio Cesare with Cleveland Opera; Valentin in Faust with Portland Opera, Minnesota Opera, and Toledo Opera; Tonio in Pagliacci, the Four Villains in Les Contes D'Hoffmann, John Proctor in The Crucible , and Lord Mountjoy in Britten's Gloriana with Central City Opera; and Marcello in La Bohemewith Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Concert highlights have included Reynard,Mass, Requiem Canticles, and Canticum Sacrum for the Stravinsky Festival with the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas; Messiah with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Duke University Chapel Choir; and Copland's Old American Songs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.