During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Jack Swanson performs the role of Jonathan Dale in Silent Night and as Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. He previously performed with HGO as Don Ramiro in Cinderella (2024) and Fenton in Falstaff (2023). During the 2024-25 season, he performed the role of Almaviva in The Barber of Seville in his debut with the Metropolitan Opera and made his role debut as Ernesto in Don Pasquale with Hamburg State Opera. In the 2023-24 season, he performed as Ferrando in Così fan tutte at Den Norske Opera; Don Ramiro in Cinderella at Den Norske Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago; Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and the Arena di Verona; and Belfiore in Il viaggio a Reims in Pesaro. Recent operatic highlights include the title role in Paola Prestini’s Edward Tulane with the Minnesota Opera (2022); and house debuts with Austin Opera as Almaviva in The Barber of Seville (2022), Utah Opera as Tonio in The Daughter of the Regiment (2023), and the Atlanta Opera as the title role in Candide (2022). Swanson has performed at such opera houses as Teatro Regio di Torino, Frankfurt Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Opera National du Rhin, the Opéra National de Lorraine, and Santa Fe Opera, as well as making concert appearances at the Lausitz Festival, Regio Opera Festival, and Rossini Opera Festival. He is the recipient of a Richard Tucker Career Grant and a two-time winner of the Richard Tucker Memorial Award from Santa Fe Opera.
CULLEN LIVE RECITAL 2020-21 (Digital)
Fenton: FALSTAFF 2023-24
Don Ramiro: CINDERELLA 2024-25