During the 2024–25 season, British-American tenor Joshua Blue will make debuts with the English National Opera and San Diego Opera as Rodolfo in La bohème, Phoenix Symphony and Memphis Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, Detroit Opera as Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Charleston Symphony for Moravec’s Sanctuary Road, and Weill Recital Hall in New York City for a song recital. He will also return to Opera Philadelphia as Colin in Bologne’s L’amant anonyme, Oratorio Society of New York with conductor Kent Tritle for Messiah at Carnegie Hall, Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York for tenor arias from Bach’s St Matthew Passion, New York Festival of Song for a special musical project titled My Brother’s Keeper, Lensic Performing Arts Center for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with The New Year’s Eve Orchestra, Berkshire Opera Festival as Alfredo in La traviata, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Alfred in Die Fledermaus.

Joshua has been engaged by the Metropolitan Opera, LA Phil, Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Grand Opera, National Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, The Orchestra Now, American Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s, collaborating with conductors James Conlon, Gianandrea Noseda, Eun Sun Kim, Fabio Luisi, James Gaffigan, Carlo Rizzi, Bertrand de Billy, Bernard Labadie, Leon Botstein, and Leonard Slatkin, in such diverse venues as Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. He was the inaugural recipient of the Lotos Foundation’s James McCracken & Sandra Warfield Opera Prize in 2020. Joshua holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School.

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