Biography

Hailed for his "hearty, luxurious baritone" (Musical America), American baritone Gregory Feldmann is a rising artist on opera, musical theatre, and recital stages alike. This season, Feldmann will return to Opernhaus Zürich in January to perform Dancaïre in Bizet’s Carmen, the same role he is currently covering at the Metropolitan Opera. Feldmann made his role debut in the title role of Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet last summer with the Buxton International Festival in the UK. He also reprised the role of Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival in Ireland. Last season saw a role debut as Mercutio in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, as well as a reprise of Elviro in Handel’s Serse, all with Opernhaus Zürich.

​On the concert stage, Feldmann will partner again with conductor Annedore Neufeld and the Basel Münsterkantorei in December to present Honegger’s Cantique de Noël and Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 130. He sang the role of Raphaël in Haydn’s Creation last April with the Sequoia Symphony Orchestra in Visalia, California under conductor Bruce Kiesling. In March 2025, Feldmann rejoined the Zürcher Bach Chor in March 2025 to present Schubert’s Mass in C and Smyth’s Song of Love at the Tonhalle Zürich.

​A passionate recitalist, Feldmann enjoys a "luminous" partnership with pianist Nathaniel LaNasa (Oberon's Grove). Feldmann and LaNasa’s recitals have confronted national narratives and artistic legacies, with recital projects including Degenerate Music, a contrarian reimagining of the 1938 Entartete Musik exhibition in Düsseldorf. Here, Feldmann and LaNasa celebrated and uplifted composers that were censored by the Third Reich and asked questions of who historically has decided the classical canon. The duo presented Degenerate Music in their sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in 2019. Their most recent project, American Icons, partnered with oral historian Cynthia Tobar to explore national monuments and the communities living in their shadows. American Icons saw the premieres of songs by Shawn Chang, Molly Joyce, Matthew Ricketts, and Jorell Williams.

​Feldmann and LaNasa have partnered with organizations including the New York Festival of Song (to premiere Iván Enrique Rodríguez’s Mother of Exiles in November 2024 and Iain Bell’s We Two in October 2023), Sparks and Wiry CRIES (to premiere Curtis Stewart’s Do You See the Flag? in 2021), and the Musee d’Orsay and Royaumont Foundation (to produce their first studio release of Faure’s L’horizon chimérique and Ullmann’s Liederbuch des Hafis). The duo took First Prize in the 2021 Gerda Lissner Song/Lieder Competition and the 2019 Joy in Singing International Song Competition.

​Feldmann is a graduate of the Artist Diploma in Opera Studies program at the Juilliard School, where he studied with Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Scarlata, and Sanford Sylvan. He lives with his wife Catherine, and their three cats, Banjo, Mandolin, and Fiddle in Brooklyn.