During HGO’s 2026-27 season, Aaron Blake makes his company debut performing as Little Bat McClean in Susannah. A GRAMMY Award-winning artist, Blake made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Verdi's La traviata and has since appeared with the company in repertoire ranging from Offenbach and Mozart to Bizet and Glass. With the Metropolitan Opera, he performed the role of High Priest of Amon in Akhnaten and most recently joined the company for productions of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Carmen. He is noted for creating the role of Timothy Laughlin in Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers and performing Michel in Martinů's Julietta, which has become one of his signature roles. The only living artist to have essayed this work in all of its translations, he first performed the role in its 2019 U.S. premiere at Carnegie Hall in Czech, followed by his debut at Oper Frankfurt in the German translation, and at Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur in the original French text of Georges Neveux. Most recently, Blake reprised the role to critical acclaim at Bard for their 2025 festival, “Martinů and His World.” In recent seasons he has appeared as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Cincinnati Opera; Nadir in The Pearl Fishers with Vancouver Opera; and Tamino in The Magic Flute and Nemorino in The Elixir of Love with The Israeli Opera. Additionally, he has appeared with Komische Oper Berlin, New York City Opera, Minnesota Opera, Utah Opera, The Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Opera Orchestra of New York, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic.