During the 2025-26 season, Will Liverman makes his HGO debut as Figaro in The Barber of Seville. Elsewhere during the season, Liverman performs with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, with additional engagements including The Marriage of Figaro at Washington National Opera; Messiah with the San Francisco Symphony and Music of the Baroque; Bernstein’s Mass with Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra; The Pearl Fishers with Washington Concert Opera; The Magic Flute with St. Louis Symphony; and more. Liverman is co-creator of the multi-genre opera The Factotum, which premiered at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2023. At the Metropolitan Opera, he made history as the first-ever Black Papageno in The Magic Flute; headlined Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which won a 2023 Grammy Award; and starred in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. He premiered Kevin Puts’s The Manchurian Candidate at Minnesota Opera and Rene Orth’s 10 Days in a Madhouse at Opera Philadelphia; and he served as Artistic Advisor for Renée Fleming’s SongStudio at Carnegie Hall. Cedille Records released Liverman’s Show Me the Way (2024) and Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers (2021), which were both nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. Liverman has appeared at English National Opera, Dutch National Opera, LA Opera, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Washington National Opera, among many others. He is a recipient of the Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Artist Award. Liverman holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Wheaton College in Illinois and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School. He is an alumnus of Lyric Opera of Chicago's Ryan Opera Center and HGO’s YAVA program.
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