During the 2024-25 season for HGO, Butler Studio alumnus Ryan McKinny performs the role of Jan in Breaking the Waves. McKinny’s many roles at HGO include Amfortas in Parsifal (2024); Leporello (2024) and the title role (2019) in Don Giovanni; Jokanaan in Salome (2023); and Gunther in Götterdämmerung (2017). In the 2023-24 season McKinny opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season opposite Joyce DiDonato in the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, which was simulcast in theaters in more than 70 countries via Met Live in HD. He also created the lead role of Mac in the world premiere of Heggie’s Before It All Goes Dark, with performances in Seattle, San Francisco, and Chicago. Engagements during the 2024-25 season include the title role in Der fliegende Holländer with Des Moines Metro Opera. Additional highlights include McKinny’s role debuts as Scarpia in Tosca with LA Opera and as Bluebeard in Boston Lyric Opera’s Bluebeard’s Castle, as well as performances with Seattle Opera as Kurwenal in Tristan and Isolde, and Los Angeles Philharmonic as Clarence in John Adam’s Girls of the Golden West, a role he created with San Francisco Opera. He has made additional appearances at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (Joseph De Rocher in Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Don Giovanni); Metropolitan Opera (Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Biterolf in Tannhäuser, Speaker in The Magic Flute, Kothner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Lieutenant Ratcliffe in Billy Budd); Dutch National Opera (debut in Pierre Audi’s production of Parsifal); Los Angeles Opera; Santa Fe Opera; Washington National Opera; Staatstheater Wiesbaden; English National Opera; Semperoper Dresden; Hamburg State Opera; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Deutsche Oper am Rhein; Teatro Colón; and many other companies.