In this episode we will be interviewing star baritone, Kenneth Overton who has sung with major opera houses in the US and internationally. He is set to make his Metropolitan Opera debut this coming season in the return of the critically acclaimed and wildly successful Porgy Bess production as Lawyer Frazier. Stepping into the shoes of his late mentor Arthur Woodley.

Mr. Overton’s recent appearances as the title role of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess have included Opéra de Montréal, Palacio Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and the Royal Danish Opera. It was in this role that he made his international debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin in Cape Town Opera’s critically acclaimed production, and appeared in concert with both Cologne’s WDR Symphony Orchestra at the Klangvokal Music Festival in Dortmund, and the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, and Paducha Symphony, as well as on tour throughout the British Isles. Kenneth Overton’s other concert performances include Handel’s Messiah with the Phoenix Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the New Jersey Symphony. This season he returns to David Geffen Hall in Mozart’s Requiem with the National Chorale and makes his Hungarian State Opera debut as Porgy.