During the 2025-26 season, Jonathan Pierce Rhodes makes his HGO debut as Mingo in Porgy and Bess. Elsewhere during the 2025-26 season, he joins INSeries for the world premiere of Delta King's Blues (Geter/Lee) and returns to Washington National Opera as Zodzetrick in Treemonisha. In the 2024-25 season, Rhodes made his role debut as Timothy Laughlin in Fellow Travelers by Gregory Spears with Opera Parallele. He also made his house debut with the Lyric Opera Chicago, where he reprised his role as Policeman 2 and covered the role of The Son in Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s Blue; returned to WNO as Mingo in Porgy and Bess; sang the Messenger in Aida with the Baltimore Symphony; and sang Valcour in L'amant anomyme with Finger Lakes Opera. Rhodes is a recent graduate of WNO’s Cafritz Young Artist program. During his residency there, he performed roles including Pong in a new production of Turandot directed by Francesca Zambello. Additional roles at WNO include The Hippo in The Lion, The Unicorn and Me; A Priest/Piquillo (cover) in Songbird; and Frank in The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, a role he first performed at The Glimmerglass Festival in 2019. In 2022, the Houston District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition recognized Rhodes as an Encouragement Award winner. In 2019, he received the 1st place Neva Pilgrim Award in the Civic Morning Musicals Competition and was named a recipient of the William Warfield Scholarship Award from the Eastman School of Music. Rhodes holds both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from The Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester. He received his Master of Music degree in Opera Performance from Rice University.