Ryan, Brenton
(Sedalia, Missouri)
2026–27 Season: Loge, Das Rheingold
2027–28 Season: Loge, Ring cycle
San Francisco Opera Highlights: Janek in The Makropulos Case; Eros in John Adams' Antony and Cleopatra; Monsieur Triquet in Eugene Onegin; L’Aumonier in Dialogues of the Carmelites; A Novice in Billy Budd; Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro; Nick in Poul Ruders and Paul Bentley's The Handmaid's Tale
Recent and Upcoming: Edmund in Aribert Reimann's Lead (Komische Oper Berlin); Mitchell in Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire (Boston Lyric Opera); Robert Wilson in John Adams' Doctor Atomic (Munich's Bavarian State Opera); Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier (Metropolitan Opera); Loge in Das Rheingold (Salzburg Easter Festival, Berlin Philharmonic, Dallas Opera); Incredible in Andrea Chénier (Metropolitan Opera); Don Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro (Munich, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera); Steersman in Der Fliegende Holländer (Bavarian State Opera in Shanghai); Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Paris' Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Ravinia Festival, Munich, Monte-Carlo Opera); Misail in Boris Godunov (Munich, Metropolitan Opera); Schoolmaster and Mosquito in The Cunning Little Vixen (Munich); Mime in Das Rheingold (London's Royal Ballet and Opera); Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte (London, Metropolitan Opera, Chicago); Dancing Master in Ariadne auf Naxos (Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe); Spoletta in Tosca (Metropolitan Opera); Fool in Wozzeck (Metropolitan Opera); Eros in John Adams' Antony and Cleopatra (Metropolitan Opera); John Wormley in Matthew Aucoin's Crossing in concert (LA Opera); Tony in West Side Story (Houston Grand Opera); Florian in Korngold’s Der Ring des Polykrates (Dallas); Nero in The Coronation of Poppea (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Philadelphia); Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Santa Fe); CM in Gregory Spears' The Righteous (Santa Fe); Peter Quint in Britten The Turn of the Screw (Santa Fe); Gurre-Lieder (American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall); Aucoin's Music for New Bodies (Houston's Dacamera)