James bobick, Baritone

James Bobick has had a versatile operatic career, from leading roles in the works of Donizetti, Verdi, Bizet, and Mozart to those in the operas of contemporary composers including Jake Heggie, Mark Adamo, John Eaton, and David T. Little. Mr. Bobick was seen in over twenty roles at New York City Opera, including in an Emmy-winning broadcast of La Bohème. Mr. Bobick has also appeared with companies including Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, Portland Opera, Opera Colorado, Connecticut Opera, Opera Mississippi, Opera Omaha, Opera Pacific, Opera Delaware, Virginia Opera, Baltimore Opera, Wichita Grand Opera, Dayton Opera, Central City Opera, Fort Worth Opera, The Bard Festival, and The Oklahoma City Ballet.

James Bobick is a frequent concert soloist. In New York City, he has been heard at Carnegie Hall in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass; at David Geffen Hall in Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Haydn’s Creation and Paukenmesse, Bach’s Mass in B minor, and Handel’s Messiah; and at other New York City venues including Alice Tully Hall, NYU’s Skirball Center, the National Opera Center, and the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Among his international credits are solo performances with the Prague Symphony in the Czech Republic, the San José Symphony in Costa Rica, and the Orchestre Pasdeloup in Paris, Chartres, Reims, and during mass at Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris. In the United States, Mr. Bobick has enjoyed numerous engagements as a soloist in the works of Orff, Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Vaughan Williams, Prokofiev, and Paul McCartney. James Bobick can be heard on the Grammy-nominated, original cast recording of David T. Little’s Dog Days.