Jon Kolbet, tenor

Snout in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Kuzka in Chorus!

Previous Engagements at HGO:

  • Monostatos in Mozart's The Magic Flute (2008)
  • Schoolmaster and Mosquito in Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen (2007)
  • Dancing Master in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (2006)
  • The Holy Fool in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (2005)
  • Don Curzio in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro (2005)
  • Monostatos in Mozart’s The Magic Flute (2004)
  • The Vain Man/the Snake in world premiere of  Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince (2003)

Recent Engagements:

  • Jove/Eumete in The Return of Ulysses with Portland Opera
  • tenor soloist in The Seven Deadly Sins with the Oregon Symphony
  • The Witch in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, the Vain Man and the Snake in Rachel Portman’s 
  • The Little Prince with Tulsa Opera
  • Goro in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with San Francisco Opera
  • Red Whiskers in Britten’s Billy Budd with Washington Opera
  • Zefirino in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, Basilio in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and Pang in Puccini’s Turandot with Portland Opera
  • Don Curzio in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with Los Angeles Opera and with Dallas Opera

Upcoming Engagements:

  • Monostatos in The Magic Flute with Eugene Opera
  • Goro in Madama Butterfly with L'Opéra de Montréal
  • Mayor Upford in Albert Herring with Portland Opera

Did you know?

  • Mr. Kolbet is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio.