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American tenor Ryan Capozzo, whom Opera News has exclaimed is, “generating genuine drama,” has recently finished his final season with the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In the 2024-2025 season, Mr. Capozzo will sing the Prince in Rusalka at the Gran teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and make his Metropolitan Opera debut singing The Voice of a Young Man in Die Frau one Schatten. He will also cover the role of Narraboth in Salome at the Metropolitan Opera. Ryan will also perform the role of Albert Gregor in Janáček's The Makropulos Affair with Scottish Opera. In the summer of 2024, he was a participant in both the Aix-en-Provence Academie, as well as the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Germany.

In Chicago for the 2023-2024 season Ryan performed the role of Steuermann in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer, and covered the roles of Števa in Janáček's Jenůfa and Howie Albert in Terence Blanchard’s Champion. For his European Debut, he also performed Don José in Carmen with the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

In the 2022-2023 Season, Ryan Capozzo sang Remendado in Carmen with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as part of the Ryan Opera Center and participated in the Ryan Opera Center’s Rising Stars concert. He also joined the Berkshire Opera Festival for their Spring Concert To Paris with Love and collaborated with the Georg Solti Accademia in Italy.

Mr. Capozzo is a graduate of the Yale School of Music with a Master of Musical Arts degree, where he was awarded the Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Prize. While there, he made his role debut as Arcadio in Daniel Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas, the partial role of Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, and Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress. Additionally, he performed the partial roles of Captain Vere in Billy Budd and Prunier in La Rondine. At Purchase Opera, Mr. Capozzo performed Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Nerone in L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Finally, with the Berlin Opera Academy, Mr. Capozzo had the opportunity to perform the entirety of Tamino in Die Zauberflöte.

On the concert stage, credits include Sunday in the Park with Lyric under the baton of Enrique Mazzola, Mozart’s Requiem with the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music and Rye Presbyterian Church, Handel’s Messiah under the direction of David J. Recca, and Vivaldi’s Magnificat with Stanwich Church and at the Rye Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Capozzo holds a B.M. and a M.M. from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music, as well as a M.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. During his time at Yale, he had the pleasure of working with esteemed professionals and performing artists including Richard Cross, Gerald Martin Moore, J.J. Penna, and Howard Watkins. He was chosen as a district winner of South Carolina, and awarded second place in the Southeast Region of The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2022. Ryan was awarded the Windsor Encouragement Award in Vero Beach Opera’s Rising Stars Competition, selected as a semi-finalist for Annapolis Opera’s 2021 Vocal Competition, and he was awarded the Briarcliff Music Scholarship in 2016.