Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. He is a distinguished visiting scholar at Harvard University, a recipient of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2020 Beverly Sills Award, a winner of the 2020 Opera News Award, and Musical America’s 2019 Vocalist of the Year. This season at the Boston Lyric Opera, Anthony produces and stars in The Seasons, a new work incorporating the music of Vivaldi, co-created and written by the renowned playwright and poet Sarah Ruhl. He also stars in and creates a one-man rendition of Le nozze di Figaro in the inaugural season of Little Island’s new performing arts series in New York, returns to the Detroit Opera as the title role in Rinaldo, and makes his Bay Area recital debut with San Francisco Performances. Recent highlights at the Metropolitan Opera include the title roles in Gluck’s Orfeo and Philip Glass’s Akhnaten. He made his Paris Opera debut in a new production of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel and sang in the world premiere of The Lord of Cries at Santa Fe Opera. He served as 2021–22 artist-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic; as the Glimmerglass Festival’s 2023 artist-in-residence, he sang the title role in Rinaldo and, together with singer/songwriter Natalie Merchant, performed music from Merchant’s 40-year catalogue. At the Spoleto Festival USA in 2023 he performed orchestra and chamber concerts and as well as Only an Octave Apart, the show he created with cabaret artist Justin Vivian Bond. His first studio album, featuring music by Glass and Handel, was nominated for a Grammy award. He graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University and received his Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, where he now serves on the board of trustees. He is also on the board of National Black Theater. In June 2024, Anthony began in his new role as general director and president of Opera Philadelphia, balancing his administrative duties there with his international singing career.