Baritone Cole Bellamy hails from Olathe, Kansas. Highlights of Cole’s 2023–24 season included his Santa Fe Opera debut singing the role of Deacon 1 in the world premiere of Gregory Spears’s The Righteous. Cole was a 2023–24 studio artist at Opera Neo in San Diego, where he was featured in the annual Aria Gala at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center and was described by the San Diego Story as a “rich baritone” with “commanding presence and fearless declamation.” He was a first-place winner in Mobile Opera’s 2024 Madame Role Palmai-Tenser Scholarship competition. Cole’s solo professional debut was with Wichita Grand Opera in the role of Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia; he made his professional concert debut with Tallahassee Community Chorus as the baritone soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana. As a master’s degree student at Florida State University, Cole has participated in numerous productions by the Florida State Opera, including Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley Kowalski) and Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro). He earned his undergraduate degree from Wichita State University, where he performed in productions including Così fan tutte (Guglielmo) and Street Scene (Frank) and was baritone soloist in the university choir’s performances of Brahms’s Requiem and Orff’s Carmina Burana.