From Shamokin, Pennsylvania, baritone David Wolfe has been praised as being “endearing” and “a vocal standout”. He is currently a Resident Artist with Minnesota Opera, where he has performed the title role in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Tim in A Snowy Day, and Gregorio in Romeo et Juliette. This upcoming season he makes several exciting role debuts as Guglielmo in Cosi fan Tutte and Silvio in Pagliacci. He has also been seen on stage at the Glimmerglass Festival as Mr/Lee Randolph in Sunday in the Park with George. In 2024 he joined the Opera Theater of St. Louis as an Apprentice Artist where he performed the role of Fiorello in The Barber of Seville as well as jumping into the role of Young Galileo in Galileo Galilei by Philip Glass to great acclaim.

In 2023 he was seen on stage at the Metropolitan Opera as a National Grand Finalist of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. He was also a Frank R. Brownwell III apprentice artist with Des Moines Metro Opera. There he was an Eccentric Spectator in The Love for Three Oranges, performed in the chorus of Carmen and covered Moralés. Also in summer of 2023 he was a resident artist with Belcanto Bootcamp at the Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York. There he studied the bel canto repertory in depth culminating in a recital of duets and scenes with world renowned soprano Lisette Oropesa. This upcoming season he is eager to debut with Palm Beach Opera as a Bailey Apprentice Artist. There he will be seen as Sciarrone in Tosca. He will also cover ​Cesare Angelotti in Tosca and Hermann and Schlemil in Le Contes d’Hoffman while singing in the choruses of Hoffman and Norma.

David began his vocal training at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. There he studied with esteemed professors Jan Opalach and Robert Swensen. He made his operatic debut as the Lautsprecher in Der Kaiser von Atlantis in a double bill with Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel. He also covered Masetto in Don Giovanni and sang Man with a shoe sample kit/Puppet no. 2 in Dominic Argento’s A Postcard from Morocco.While at Eastman he won the third place award in the Jesse Kneisel Lieder competition and debuted the role of Bunsen in the childrens show Dr. Freakquency’s Soundlab with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He reprised this role with the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, touring to six different schools across West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. David continued his education at Northwestern University for his Master’s degree, studying with world famous teacher W. Stephen Smith. While there he was seen as Paul in If I Were You by Jake Heggie, Schaunard in La Bohéme, Luther Harlow/The Outlaw in Chris Cerrone’s new opera In a Grove, and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. While at Northwestern he won first prize at Casa Italia Chicago’s scholarship as well as the audience choice award at the Italian American Executives of Travel vocal competition.