American Baritone, Charles H. Eaton, a third place winner in the 2021 Lotte Lenya Competition, makes his recital debut with The Musicians of Ma’alwyck, and returns to Minnesota Opera as Moralès in their Carmen in his 2021-2022 season. In the season previous, he made his role and company debut as Marcello in La Bohème with the Imperial Symphony Orchestra (Lakeland Opera). He also made a company debuts as the English Ambassador in The Ghosts of Versailles with the Château de Versailles Spectacles. In the 2019-2020 season, Mr. Eaton made role and company debuts as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with New York City Opera in Bryant Park, William Dale in Silent Night with Minnesota Opera, and Vitellius in Hérodiade with New Amsterdam Opera. He returned to Madison Opera as Carl-Magnus in their A Little Night Music, and to Minnesota Opera to create the roles of Arnold Rothstein and George Gorman in the world premiere of Joel Puckett’s The Fix. He also returned to The Glimmerglass Festival for the 2019 summer season to perform Steve / Max in Show Boat and cover Figaro in The Ghosts of Versailles. Charles is a graduate of prestigious young artist programs at The Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Colorado, and Des Moines Metro Opera. He is an alumnus of University of Connecticut (in his hometown of Storrs, CT) where he received his Bachelor of Music degree in 2013. He received his Master of Music degree from the University of Minnesota in 2015. Mr. Eaton was a finalist in the 2021 Opera Ithaca Vocal Competition, a semi-finalist in the 2020 Premiere Opera Foundation International Voice Competition, a semi-finalist in the 2019 Mildred Miller Voice Competition, a second place winner of the 2019 American Prize Competition, and a district winner of the 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Competition.