Liam Bonner (Belcore)

Baritone and HGO Studio alumnus Liam Bonner was last seen at HGO in the role of Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2009). Other operatic roles include Il Cavaliere di Befiore in Verdi’s Un giorno di Regno and Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Wolf Trap, the Count in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Berkshire Opera, and Sid in Britten’s Albert Herring at Aspen Opera Theatre.  He recently made his European operatic debut as Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at English National Opera and joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for its production of Dvorak’s Rusalka. His Houston Grand Opera credits include Claudio in Berlioz’s Beatrice and Benedict, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Redburn in Britten’s Billy Budd, the baritone soloist in Theofanidis’s The Refuge, Silvano in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, Hortensius in Donizetti’s La fille du régiment, the Witch in Basil Twist’s production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, and both Moralès and Dancaïro in Bizet’s Carmen. He is the recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from The Shoshanna Foundation, a national semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and an award winner from the George London Foundation and Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition.