During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Butler Studio alumnus Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen performs as the countertenor soloist in Messiah. Previously at HGO, Nussbaum Cohen performed as David in Saul (2019), Second Maidservant in Elektra (2018), and Nirenus in Julius Caesar (2017). He was the first prize winner in HGO’s 2017 Eleanor McCollum Competition. Elsewhere during the 2025-26 season, Nussbaum Cohen makes three major title role debuts: he sings Handel’s Rinaldo with The English Concert, Handel’s Tolomeo with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Music of the Baroque. He also makes his Spanish debut at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia in the title role of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, and he returns to Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and others. Recent seasons have taken him to The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, the Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich), Opernhaus Zürich, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, Ballet, and Symphony, Los Angeles Opera, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, La Monnaie de Munt (Brussels), the Salzburger Festspiele, the Adelaide Festival (Australia), Komische Oper Berlin, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at the Concertgebouw, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and the Buffalo Philharmonic. His first commercial recording was honored with a Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium in 2019. Additional successes include winning the Grand Prize at the 2017 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, top prize in the Dallas Opera Guild Competition, a George and Nora London Foundation Award, the Richard Tucker Study Grant and Career Grant, and in 2024, top prize in the Gerda Lissner Foundation’s International Vocal Competition.