Second-year Butler Studio artist Shawn Roth, from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, made his HGO debut in the 2024-25 season as Heinrich der Schreiber in Tannhäuser. In the company’s 2025-26 season, Roth will sing the roles of Song Sellar in Il tabarro (Il trittico) and Curley in Of Mice and Men. In the 2024-2025 season, he competed in the final round of the Neue Stimmen competition in Gütersloh, Germany, and won third prize in the Houston Saengerbund Awards. Other 2024-25 engagements include his debut with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra as Don José in Carmen, and his return to Des Moines Metro Opera to perform Pásek in The Cunning Little Vixen and cover Erik in The Flying Dutchman. In the 2023-24 season, Roth won the Pittsburgh District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, covered the role of Narraboth in Salome at Des Moines Metro Opera, and took the top prize in the Wagner Society of New York’s 2024 Grant Awards. In spring 2024, he earned his artist diploma from the Academy of Vocal Arts, where he performed the roles of Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. Roth holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory, and is a three-time fellow of Music Academy of the West, where he won the Marilyn Horne Song Competition in 2021.