DANIEL RICH
BARITONE
BIOGRAPHY
Baltimore-born baritone Daniel Rich is a recent graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. During the 2023–24 Met season, he appeared as Pâris in Roméo et Juliette and as Chester in Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones. He made his Met début during the 2022–23 season as a Waiter in Der Rosenkavalier and covered the Count of Lerma in Don Carlo.
This past summer he made his company début at Des Moines Metro Opera, where he appeared as the First Nazarene and covered Jochanaan in Salome, and sang Willie McDonald in the premiere of Damien Geter and Lila Palmer’s American Apollo. In September 2024, he will make a company début with Opera Philadelphia covering the roles of Dillon and Paul Devon in the American premiere of Mazzoli’s The Listeners. Daniel will return to Opera Baltimore and début at Opera Delaware, making his role début as Marcello, in Puccini’s La bohème in October 2024.
Other recent operatic engagements include Masetto in Don Giovanni at Wolf Trap Opera, Valentin in Faust at Opera Baltimore, and various roles in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar, including its world premiere at the Spoleto Festival in 2022 and revival at Carolina Performing Arts in 2023. On the concert stage, he has appeared as a featured soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, Orff's Carmina Burana with both the Richmond Symphony and Berkshire Choral International, and a concert of sacred music by Mary Lou Williams & Duke Ellington with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall, among others. He made his Carnegie Hall début in 2019 as a soloist in Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music under the baton of Leonard Slatkin. In 2024, he was named the second place winner of Opera Columbus’ Cooper-Bing Competition and in 2023 he was the first place winner of the George Shirley Vocal Competition and Emerging Artist winner of the inaugural Duncan Williams Vocal Competition.
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CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"...impressive versatility with contemplative spoken word…” – San Francisco Classical Voice
Will You Be There/Ain’t but the One – Baritone Daniel Rich showed impressive versatility with contemplative spoken word (in Ellington’s “Will You Be There/Ain’t but the One”) and jubilant gospel belts (in Williams’s “The Lord Says”).
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"...Rich was suitably repulsive..." – Bachtrack
Fire Shut Up In My Bone – “In the demanding role of Chester, the malevolent older cousin who molests the seven-year-old Charles, baritone Daniel Rich was suitably repulsive.”
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"...smoothly sung and powerfully manipulative performance..." – Parterre
Fire Shut Up In My Bone – “The traumatic experience that haunts the younger Charles is sexual abuse at age seven by his older cousin Chester (Daniel Rich in a smoothly sung and powerfully manipulative performance).”
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"...Rich’s tone is round and soulful, effortlessly guiding us along with him..." – Charleston City Paper
My Tribute – "Daniel Rich then took the stage with a powerful, tear-jerking rendition of Andrae Crouch’s “My Tribute.” A baritone soloist, Rich’s tone is round and soulful, effortlessly guiding us along with him. Met with raised hands, applause, and “Amens” throughout, his belts received the second standing ovation of the night."
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"...made a burly Masetto..." – Washington Classical Review
Don Giovanni – “Local favorite Daniel Rich, a Baltimore baritone who trained at Morgan State University, made a burly Masetto"
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"...had his finest moments in the floating falsetto..." – Washington Classical Review
Carmina Burana – Baritone Daniel Rich had his finest moments in the floating falsetto roulades of “Dies, nox et omnia.”
REPRESENTATIVES
Vice President | Classical & Creatives
Agent | Classical & Concert