British-American tenor Joshua Blue from Aurora, Illinois returns to WNO’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program for the 2019-20 season. Blue will perform the roles of Tamino in the Young Artist production of The Magic Flute, Man 1 in Blue, and Philistine Messenger in Samson and Delilah. During the 2018-19 season, Blue sang the roles of Alfredo Germont in Verdi’s La traviata, Hippo/Holy Man/Dog/Water Seller in Tesori’s The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me, and Monsieur Triquet in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Blue also participated in the 2018-19 American Opera Initiative 20-minute program as David in Pepito and performed as a soloist in WNO’s “A Concert of Comic Masterpieces.” In collaboration with Maestro Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra, Blue sang extracts from La bohème in February 2019. He heads to Wolf Trap Opera this summer as Harlekin in Der Kaiser von Atlantis. In 2018, Blue was an Apprentice Singer with Santa Fe Opera’s summer festival. He also made his debut at Carnegie Hall in Handel's Messiah with the Oratorio Society of New York, sang in Moravec’s Sanctuary Road at Merkin Concert Hall with New York Festival of Song, and performed with Austin Opera as Scaramuccio in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. During the summer of 2017, he was a Gaddes Festival Artist with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where he sang in the American Premier of Philip Glass’ The Trial and portrayed Nemorino in Donizetti’s L'elisir d'amore as a vocal fellow with the Music Academy of the West. Recently, Blue was honored with the Ellen Lopin Blair award for first place at the 2017 Oratorio Society of New York solo competition and received the Emerging Artist Award from the 2017 Opera Index competition in New York City. He was a semi-finalist in the 2018 Metropolitan National Opera Council Auditions, singing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in April. Blue earned his Bachelor's degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2016 and his Master’s degree from Juilliard as a student of Robert C. White, Jr.
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