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Bio coming soon. Nataki Garrett is partially supported by OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors, generously funded by the Marineau Family Foundation.

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Hailing from Norfolk, Virginia, Grammy Award-winning tenor Frederick Ballentine was the 2021 recipient of The Kennedy Center’s Marian Anderson Award, and an alumnus of both the Cafritz Young Artists of Washington National Opera and the Los Angeles Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program.

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Hailed by The New York Times, Opera News, and the San Francisco Chronicle following the world premiere performances of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra with the San Francisco Opera, Hadleigh Adams is a baritone with a very strong lower extension enabling him to forge a career in both baritone and bass-baritone repertoire. With a repertoire spanning from Rameau and Vivaldi all the way to Ades and Adams, he is an artist equally at home on the opera stage as he is in concert.

This season’s highlights include the role of Agrippa in world premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra at the San Francisco Opera, Marcutio in Gouod’s Romeo et Juliette with San Diego Opera, and his fourth production of Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers in the lead role of Hawkins Fuller with Florida Grand Opera. On the concert platform he performs Handel’s Messiah with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with the Houston Symphony, Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven 9 with the Seattle Symphony, Carmina Burana with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Britten’s War Requiem with the Brisbane Philharmonia Orchestra, and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erder with Wellington Orchestra.

Next Season, Mr Adams marks Mr Adams’ 20th production with the San Francisco Opera In Handel's Partenope (Ormonte). He has numerous concert engagements yet to be publicly released. These will become public as they are announced by the various orchestras/concert halls.

In recent seasons, Stanley Kowalski in Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire at Florida Grand Opera, Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers (Hawkins Fuller) at Minnesota Opera, Philip Glass’ la Belle et la Bete with Opera Parallele, Bernstein’s Mass (baritone soloist/Celebrant cover) with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, again with the Chicago Symphony, and a further production at Lincoln Center, Joby Talbot’s Everest with Opera Parallele, and Tosca (Angelotti) with the San Francisco Opera. On the concert platform he performed Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with Houston Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Apollo’s Fire, and Bach’s Cantata 80 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Prior to these seasons he has performed with the London Philharmonia Orchestra in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex (Creon/Tiresias), London’s Royal National Theatre in staged performances of Bach’s St Matthew Passion (Jesus), la Boheme with the San Francisco Opera (Schaunard), Agrippina with Opera Omaha (Claudio), and the title character in both Vivaldi’s Bajazet, and Castor et Pollux with Pinchgut Opera, Australia’s foremost baroque opera company.

Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Hadleigh is a former Merola Opera artist, San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow, and studied at the Guildhall school of Music And Drama.

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Soprano Brianna J. Robinson, proclaimed as “a radiant voice and presence” by the Boston Globe, is a native of Ravenna, Ohio and a proud graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Eastman School of Music. As a Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artist with Boston Lyric Opera, she covered and performed roles including Lucy in Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers, Mimì (cover) in Puccini’s La bohème, and Lena in Ana Solokovic’s Svabda; she also covered several roles in Paul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale. She recently stepped in as Julie in Omar, Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, at Boston Lyric Opera. In the 2023–24 season, she made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Cecilia Chorus of New York in Vaughan Williams’s Dona nobis pacem and was a District Winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. Brianna has performed in the Handel and Haydn Society’s immersive concert experience Crossing the Deep and with ensembles including the Akron Symphony Orchestra and Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra/New World Chorale. Brianna was a finalist in Opera Ebony’s Benjamin Matthews Vocal Competition and was awarded first prize at the Getting to Carnegie Competition in 2020. She made her international debut in Ruse, Bulgaria in 2021, creating the role of Ophelia in the world premiere of Joseph Summer’s Hamlet. Brianna returned to Boston Lyric Opera in 2024 in the role of Leontine in Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ The Anonymous Lover. www.briannajrobinson.com/  Photo credit: Chellypic Photography

Tenor, Elliott Paige (he/him), from Hampton, Virginia, most recently performed with White Snake Projects as the titular role in Samiir’s Feast, as well as, in the ensemble of the Grammy nominated recording of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X with Boston Modern Opera Projects. Within the 2022 season, Mr. Paige has performed in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X with Opera Omaha, and Detroit Opera and as Anton McCray’s Father in Anthony Davis’s The Central Park Five with Portland Opera. Other previous season highlights include performing as a Street Person soloist in Bernstein’s MASS at the Kennedy Center, and with On Site Opera in their production of What Lies Beneath. In previous years, Elliott has sung with the Metropolitan Opera in their productions of Der fliegende Holländer and as a soloist in Porgy and Bess. He has been an Apprentice Artist with the Santa Fé Opera, where he sang the role of Parpignol in a new production of La bohème, and performed as the ‘Quartet Tenor’ in the world premiere of Today It Rains with Opera Parallèle. Other credits include apprenticeship with the Santa Fé Opera; Palm Beach Opera, and Opera Theater of Saint Louis, where he sung the role of Bombur Yambarzal in the world premiere of Jack Perla’s Shalimar the Clown. As a Manhattan School student, he performed as Duncan in Bloch's Macbeth and the titular role in Haydn's Orlando Paladino. Elliott is an alumnus of The Manhattan School of Music where he received a M.M. in opera performance and James Madison University where he received a B.M. in vocal performance.

A singer of diverse talents, Nigerian American Baritone, Babatunde Akinboboye is known for his enthralling stage presence. He has performed with the Los Angeles Opera, Opera Theatre St. Louis, Utah Opera, Opera San Jose, Opera Santa Barbara, and Long Beach Opera. As an advocate for the performance of art song and operatic works written by African and African American composers, Mr. Akinboboye has headlined the Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry awards in Lagos, Nigeria, performing a fusion of opera and traditional African music and has been a featured performer at both the National Association of Negro Musicians Annual Conference, as well as the African American Art Song Alliance Conference. Babatunde’s honors include Regional Finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition and finalist in the International Eisteddfod Vocal Solo Competition in Llangollen, Wales. In December of 2018, Babatunde combined his love of classical opera and hip hop and created the new genre Hip Hopera in a viral video that gained over 10 million views and was featured on Time.com, Classic FM, MSN.com, and more.