Daniel Rich

Originally from Baltimore, baritone Daniel Rich is in his first year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. This season, he covered the Count of Lerma in the company’s revival of Don Carlo and makes his Met debut as a Waiter in Der Rosenkavalier. Later this season, he will make his role and company debuts as Masetto in Don Giovanni with Wolf Trap Opera and as Valentin in Faust with Opera Baltimore. In 2022, he performed in both the workshop and world-premiere of Omar, a new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels at the Spoleto Festival USA. On the concert stage, he is a featured soloist in several concert works including Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, a concert featuring works by Duke Ellington and Mary Lou Williams with Los Angeles Master Chorale, and two performances of Carmina Burana with Berkshire Choral International and Richmond Symphony in collaboration with Wolf Trap Opera. He will also appear as Orlando in a concert production of Furiosus, a new opera in two acts with New York University’s Casa Italiana under the baton of Robert Tweeten. Additional concert engagements include performances with Capital Singers of Trenton, Baltimore Musicales, Opera Ebony, and Harlem Opera Theater, among others. In 2023, he was named a winner of the inaugural Duncan Williams Voice Competition, a voice competition for Black and Latinx classical singers presented by New York City Opera and Manhattan School of Music. He is a past winner of the Harlem Opera Theater Vocal Competition, the Mario Lanza Institute Vocal Competition, the Opera Ebony Benjamin Matthews Vocal Competition, and the Black Brilliance Art Song Competition. In addition to his extensive performance experience, he has worked as a musical consultant and choral librarian for music ministries, a public-school teacher, and as an adjunct professor of voice at the University of Maryland. He holds degrees from Morgan State University and Manhattan School of Music, where he was a recipient of the Edgar Foster Daniels Scholarship in Voice.