Jarrod Lee

Jarrod Lee, bass baritone, hails from Alabama and presently resides in Maryland. He has received rave reviews from Opera News and The Washington Post. This season Jarrod made a Metropolitan Opera debut as one of the featured soloists in "Porgy and Bess." A few of Jarrod's roles have included: Angelotti in "Tosca" with Annapolis Opera, Undertaker in "Porgy and Bess" with Washington National Opera and Atlanta Opera, Le Bailli in "Werther" with Opera Delaware. Jarrod has also performed in community outreach works commissioned by Washington National Opera called "In the Smoke of the Sting" and "Just out the Window" by Tom Minter. Jarrod has been a finalist in the Annapolis Opera, the Harlem Opera Theater Vocal Competitions and a semifinalist in Austria’s Meistersinger. In new works, Jarrod premiered the role Levi in the Afro-Futuristic opera ballet called "Cloud Nebula" by Scott Patterson with Afro House Baltimore, and Joe Louis in "Shadowboxer: an opera based on the life of Joe Louis" by Frank Proto with the Maryland Opera Studio. Jarrod has also participated in American Voices at the Kennedy Center, curated by Renée Fleming and Jarrod had the honor of performing for President Barack Obama as a featured soloist with the historic Metropolitan A.M.E Church. For updates: www.JarrodLee.com / Website and @Jarrodleebassbaritone / Facebook.