Liam Bonner

Baritone and HGO Studio alumnus Liam Bonner returns to HGO this season as Ned Keene in Britten's Peter Grimes. He was last seen at HGO as Belcore in Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love. Mr. Bonner recently made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Moralès in Bizet’s Carmen and appeared at the same company as Horatio in Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas. Last season he made his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic. He also made role debuts as Malatesta in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale with Opera New Jersey and as Yesterday’s Beloved in Weill’s Royal Palace at the Bard Music Festival. Other recent credits of note include his European debut as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at English National Opera, as well as Il Cavaliere di Belfiore in Verdi’s Un giorno di regno and Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Wolf Trap Opera. His numerous Houston Grand Opera credits include Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Nights’ Dream, 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. Bonner has received a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation, and awards from the George London Foundation and HGO’s Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers.