Bass  Allen Michael Jones is rapidly building an exciting and varied up-and-coming career. As a Resident Artist with Minnesota Opera for the 2020–21 season, he was scheduled to cover Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola, and the Father in Jeanine Tesori’s award-winning opera, Blue. He was also slated to make his house debut at Minnesota Opera, singing as Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin, Police Officer Buddy 3 in Blue, and Singer Ranger in The Shining (all canceled due to COVID-19), but now he is scheduled to sing Superintendent Budd in Albert Herring. During the summer of 2021, Allen joined the Santa Fe Opera, singing Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin, and covering Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Van Helsing in the world premiere of The Lord of Cries. During the 2021–22 season, Allen made his role debuts as Ramfis in Aida and the Father in Blue with Toledo Opera.

In 2020, Allen finished his second year as a Studio Artist with Michigan Opera Theatre, performing the roles of Masetto in Don Giovanni, Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin, Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Maximilian in Candide, and Policeman/Man in Suit/Man in the Barn in Ricky Ian Gordon’s highly celebrated The Grapes of Wrath.

The summer of 2020 would have been Allen’s second season with the Glimmerglass Festival, where he was slated to reprise the role of Masetto in Don Giovanni and cover the roles of Harald in Wagner’s Die Feen and Commendatore in Don Giovanni. In the festival’s 2019 season, Allen covered the Father in Blue, Joe in Show Boat, and Suleyman Pasha in The Ghosts of Versailles, and performed the role of the Commissario in La traviata. In 2018, Allen was a participant in the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, where he was a finalist in their Meistersinger Competition.