Jake Ingbar

American countertenor Jake Ingbar has rapidly established himself on the international stage as a dynamic artist in a host of operatic and concert debuts across Europe and North America. Praised for his distinct “warm masculine tone” (Opera Today) and a stage personality with “piercing poignancy” (The New Yorker), Ingbar has garnered acclaim for his interpretations of the baroque and contemporary repertoire.

This season, countertenor Jake Ingbar makes his debut with English National Opera as Armindo in the Olivier Award–winning production of Partenope, a performance that was lauded as “ingenious, vocally and gymnastically” (The Guardian).  He also appears with the London Handel Festival as Andronico in Tamerlano under the direction of Laurence Cummings, and as  the alto soloist in Bach’s St John Passion conducted by Richard Gowers. He returns this season to both the Semperoper Dresden and The Metropolitan Opera.

Recent highlights include notable debuts with Nederlandse Reisopera as Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea with Cappella Mediterranea, directed by Ted Huffman; with the Semperoper Dresden as the Witch of Endor in Handel’s Saul directed by Claus Guth; and at the Salzburg Festival as Nireno in Giulio Cesare, in a production by Dmitri Tcherniakov conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm.

He made his principal debut at the San Francisco Opera as Leonardo in Gabriela Frank’s El último sueño de Frida y Diego which  received critical acclaim for his “humor, tenderness, and a chilling set of vocals that, that pushes the story into the stratosphere.” (KQED).l “Previous season engagements include Nireno in Giulio Cesare at Dutch National Opera in a production by Calixto Bieito, Narciso in Barrie Kosky’s Agrippina, and covering Countertenor 2 in John Adams’s El Niño with Marin Alsop at The Metropolitan Opera.

Jake Ingbar has appeared with leading opera houses and festivals including San Francisco Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Los Angeles Opera, Aldeburgh Festival, Minnesota Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and the Polish National Opera, and has collaborated with distinguished conductors and directors such as Christopher Alden, James Conlon, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Emmanuelle Haïm, Ottavio Dantone, and Francesca Zambello. A proponent of contemporary work, he has had the privilege to collaborate with three Pulitzer Prize winning writers; Nilo Cruz, Tony Kushner, and Marsha Norman on theatrical productions. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, Rice University, and the first countertenor to be a member of the LA Opera Domingo Colburn Stein Young Artist Program founded by Placido Domingo.