Donnie Ray Albert is a regular guest of opera companies and orchestras around the world. During HGO’s 2025-26 season, Albert performs as Lawyer Fraizer in Porgy and Bess. This season marks fifty years since his HGO debut and fifty years since he sang Porgy in the Grammy Award-winning recording of HGO’s groundbreaking production of Porgy and Bess. His many performances with HGO include the roles of Parson Alltalk in Treemonisha (1975), Porgy in Porgy and Bess (1976,1987), Joe in Show Boat (1982), Tonio in Pagliacci (2000), and Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (2022). Albert has performed with the Metropolitan Opera as Germont; with Los Angeles Opera as Trinity Moses in Mahagonny, Simone in A Florentine Tragedy, and the Father in Hansel and Gretel; and made numerous appearances with Opera Pacific, Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, Dallas Opera, Arizona, and other companies across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and beyond. In fall 2020 he appeared in Michigan Opera Theatre’s drive-in production, Twilight: Gods, and Fort Worth Opera’s digital production, Bernadette’s Cozy Book Nook. Other recent operatic engagements include a return to the Semperoper Dresden to sing the Four Villains and Germont; his debut with the Glyndebourne Festival as the Doctor in Vanessa; and his return to as Falstaff and to Austin Lyric Opera as Amonasro. Albert has performed the role of Rigoletto for Vancouver Opera; Amonasro in Riga, Latvia, and Phoenix; Alfio for the Orlando Opera; Iago for the Kentucky Opera; Il Giuramento for the Washington Concert Opera; Das Lied von der Erde with Rhode Island Philharmonic; Elijah with the Southwest Florida Master Chorale; Germont with Kentucky Opera; Giorgio in I Puritani with Latvian Opera; and the Four Villains in a new production of The Tales of Hoffmann with Prague’s National Theater. He has performed across the world as a concert artist.  In addition to RCA’s Grammy Award and Grand Prix du Disque winning recording of Porgy and Bess, he may be heard on NOW’s recording of The Horse I Ride Has Wings with David Garvey on piano, EMI’s Frühlingsbegräbnis and Eine Florentinesche Tragodie by Zemlinsky conducted by James Conlon, and Simon Sargon’s A Clear Midnight on the Gasparo label. Albert is a member of the faculty of the University of Texas in Austin.