Anthony Dean Griffey (United States)

Tenor — Male Chorus

HGO Appearances: Title role in Peter Grimes (2010), Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men (2002).

About the Artist: A four-time Grammy® Award winning tenor, Griffey has performed leading roles at international opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Glyndebourne, the Opera National de Paris, and the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, among others. He is a regular guest of the New York, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Toronto orchestras, and has performed abroad in London, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Melbourne, and at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, and Saito Kinen festivals, among others. Griffey has collaborated with many of today’s pre-eminent conductors, including James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Andrew Davis, Esa Pekka Salonen, Alan Gilbert, Kurt Masur, Donald Runnicles, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, James Conlon, and Charles Dutoit. This season, Griffey makes his role debut as Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with Opera Carolina and reprises the role of Lennie in Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men with Opera Australia in Melbourne. Symphonic highlights include Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Orquesta Nacional de España (Madrid), Britten’s War Requiem with the Eugene Concert Choir (Eugene, Oregon), his recital debut at Wigmore Hall, appearances at the Art Song Festival (Berea, Ohio), and with Music for a Great Space (Greensboro, North Carolina), all with pianist Warren Jones. Griffey holds degrees from Wingate University, the Eastman School of Music, and the Juilliard School. He was a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Program, and is now a professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.