During HGO's 2026-27 season, Martin Luther Clark performs as Elder Hayes in Susannah and the Innkeeper in Der Rosenkavalier. Previously for the company, Clark made his company debut as Walther von der Vogelweide in Tannhäuser (2025). Also during the 2026-27 season, he returns to the Metropolitan Opera for its production of Silent Night. Future engagements include a debut at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and a return to Seattle Opera. Last season, Clark returned to Dallas Opera as the Chavalier in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Madison Opera as Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Teatro Nuovo as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Pang in Turandot. He created the role of CJ in the world premiere of Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s opera The Factotum for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and returned to the company as Luis Griffith in Champion. Other recent engagements include the title role of Candide (Madison Opera), Jonathan Dale in Silent Night and the Brother in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins (Wolf Trap Opera), Frederick Loudin in Jubilee (Seattle Opera), 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. He is a former member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center, where 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.