Hailed by the Miami Herald for his “penetrating tenor,” Justin Kroll is a focused singer who combines an exciting instrument with radiant musicality and an undeniable stage presence.

The 2022/2023 season was an active one for Justin, including house debuts at Opera Idaho, as an Emerging Artist, and Central City Opera  in Central City, Colorado, as a Bonfils-Stanton Apprentice Artist. In addition, the 2022/2023 season saw Justin make his debut with the Madison Symphony Orchestra in Off’s Carmina Burana, as well as with Geneva Light Opera in Geneva, New York covering Nemorino in Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love.

While at Opera Idaho, Justin covered Il Conte Almaviva in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, performed Malcom and covered Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth, and performed the Gamekeeper and covered the Prince in Dvořák’s Rusalka. In addition, Justin performed alongside his Emerging Artist colleagues as the Count in Opera Idaho’s touring outreach production of Opera for the Young’s The Barber of Seville, bringing opera to elementary and middle schools throughout the Treasure Valley and Southwest Idaho.

An active performer, Justin was recently heard in Madison as Beadle Bamford in University Opera’s production of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as Arturo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor with Madison Opera. Other recent operatic performances include: Marc Blitzstein in I Wish It So: The Man in his Music with University Opera, as well as in University Opera’s award-winning Spring 2021 production entitled What’s Past is Prologue: The Unfinished American Conversation; Narcissus in a premiere performance of Christopher Cerrone’s All Wounds Bleed with Latitude 49, Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with the Russian Opera Workshop, and Spoletta in Puccini’s Tosca with Painted Sky Opera of Oklahoma City.

In competition, Justin was most recently the 4th Place winner in the 39th Annual Palm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert Competition in Palm Springs, California, as well as a semi-finalist for the 2023 Rochester International Voice Competition. Justin represented the United States at the 8th Linus Lerner International Voice Competition in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the 6th UNISA (University of South Africa) International Voice Competition in Pretoria, South Africa, and was a finalist in the Texoma Region of the 2020 NATS Artist Awards competition. Justin was also a finalist in the 2021 University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music Concerto Competition, semi-finalist for the 2022 Annapolis Opera Competition, and semi-finalist for the 2022 Houston Saengerbund Awards.

A native of Marlin, Texas, Justin holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also holds the Master of Music degree in Voice Performance, and the Bachelor of Music degree in Music History & Literature from Baylor University, as well as an Associate of Arts degree in Music from McLennan Community College.