Martin Luther Clark is making his HGO debut as Walther von der Vogelweide in Tannhäuser. In the 2024-25 season, he also debuts with Seattle Opera as Frederick Loudin in Jubilee, joins the Madison Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem, and sings Handel’s Messiah with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago and Camerata Chicago. Future engagements include a return to Dallas Opera. In the 2023-24 season, he sang the title role in Candide (Madison Opera), Luis Griffith in Champion (Lyric Opera of Chicago), and joined Dallas Opera as the Orderly in the world premiere of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. In summer 2024, he joined Wolf Trap Opera for the Brother in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and Jonathan Dale in Silent Night. He created the role of CJ in the world premiere of Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s highly anticipated new opera, The Factotum for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. His other recent engagements include Master Slender in Sir John in Love (Bard Music Festival), Tenor 3 in Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Detroit Opera, Opera Omaha), Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods (Tulsa Opera), and Britten’s Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac and Canticle V: The Death of Narcissus at the Aldeburgh Music Festival. As a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center, he sang the First Armed Man in The Magic Flute and Adult William and the Chicken Plucker in Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in my Bones, in addition to covering Malcolm in Macbeth. He is a previous young artist at Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the Britten Pears Young Artist Program, George Solti Academia, Central City Opera, and Opera North. He holds a Master of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music. He is a Richard F. Gold Career Grant recipient from the Shoshana Arts Foundation.