Biography

First-year Butler Studio artist Shawn Roth, from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was named a winner of the Pittsburgh District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2023. During HGO’s 2024-25 season, he makes his company debut as Heinrich der Schreiber in Tannhäuser. He was recently a resident artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts, where he performed as part of the Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia in addition to the role of Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. Roth is a three-time fellow at Music Academy of the West, where he won the Marilyn Horne Song Competition in 2021 for a recital performance of Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op. 39. In 2023, he received an honorable mention in the Meistersinger Competition at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz. He has performed in numerous masterclasses with the world’s leading artists and pedagogues, among them George Shirley, Roger Vignoles, Lawrence Brownlee, Gerald Martin Moore, Brian Zeger, Linda Watson, and Marilyn Horne. In summer 2024, he covered the role of Narraboth in Salome at Des Moines Metro Opera as an apprentice artist. In 2024, he took the top prize in the Wagner Society of New York’s 2024 Grant Awards. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory, where Marilyn Horne named him a Rubin Scholar.