Nicholas
Newton

Bass-Baritone

Nicholas Newton

Bass-Baritone

A San Diego native, Nicholas Newton is garnering due attention as an up-and-coming bass-baritone in the opera world. Having grown up in a musical household, Nicholas had a background in gospel, jazz, and musical theater before studying classical music. Nicholas is an affiliate with the Black Opera Research Network and a graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio.

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Don Quichotte Act 2

Nicholas Newton as Sancho

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Brahms Vier Ernste Gesänge

Nicholas Newton and Bin Yu Sanford perform Brahms

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Sibilar gli angui d'Aletto

Nicholas Newton as Argante

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All About Love: A Cabaret

Nicholas Newton, Gretchen Krupp, & Joseph Li in Recital

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Vecchia zimarra

La bohème

(He/Him) A San Diego native, Nicholas Newton is garnering due attention as an up-and-coming bass-baritone in the opera world. Having grown up in a musical household, Nicholas had a background in gospel, jazz, and musical theater before studying classical music. Nicholas is an affiliate with the Black Opera Research Network and a graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio.

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Career Highlights/Education

The Santa Fe Opera

Basilio, Il barbiere di Siviglia, 2022

The Metropolitan Opera

Garibaldo (Cover), Rodelinda , 2022

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Schedule

Recent Highlights

Hänsel und Gretel

Father

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Serse

Ariodate

Detroit Opera

Salome

Second soldier

Houston Grand Opera

May Festival: The Ordering of Moses

Bass Soloist

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Rodelinda

Garibaldo

The Metropolitan Opera

Roméo et Juliette

Frère Laurent

Houston Grand Opera

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Basilio

The Santa Fe Opera

Carmen

Escamillo

The Santa Fe Opera

Rigoletto

Count Monterone

The Dallas Opera

Handel: Messiah

Bass Soloist

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra

Giving Voice: Lawrence Brownlee and Friends

Various

Houston Grand Opera

Marian's Song (Film)

Billy King

Houston Grand Opera

Salon Series

All About Love: A Cabaret

Wolf Trap Opera

Sweeney Todd

Judge Turpin

Wolf Trap Opera

Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge

Recital

Houston Grand Opera

Così fan tutte

Soloist

The Dallas Opera

The Snowy Day

Daddy

Houston Grand Opera

Handel: Messiah

Bass Soloist

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

Studio Showcase

Various

Houston Grand Opera

Holiday Celebration

Various

Houston Grand Opera

Beethoven: 9th Symphony

Bass Soloist

Sunriver Music Festival

For the Dream Unfinished

Recitalist

Cincinnati Song Initiative

Marian's Song

Billy King

Houston Grand Opera

La bohème

Colline

Wolf Trap Opera

Biography

Hailed for his “polished vocal technique” and “heart-tugging emotional communication” (San Diego Story), Nicholas Newton is garnering due attention as an up-and-coming bass-baritone in the classical music world. During the 2022-23 season, he makes a Dallas Opera debut as Monterone in Rigoletto. Other operatic highlights of the season include a Detroit Opera debut in Handel’s Xerxes in a Tazewell Thompson production led by Dame Jane Glover, Salome at Houston Grand Opera directed by Francisco Negrin and under the baton of Eun Sun Kim, and an engagement with the Lyric Opera of Chicago to cover the role of Peter in Richard Jones’ acclaimed production of Hansel und Gretel conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

Last season Nicholas Newton made a Santa Fe Opera debut as Don Basilio in a new production of Il barbiere di Siviglia directed by Stephen Barlow and joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera to cover the role of Garibaldo in a revival of the company’s lauded Stephen Wadsworth production of Rodelinda conducted by Harry Bicket. He created the roles of Daddy/Tim in the Houston Grand Opera world premiere of Joel Thompson and Andrea Davis Pinkney’s The Snowy Day and bowed at the company as Friar Laurence in Roméo et Juliette conducted by Patrick Summers.

Nicholas Newton completed his training at the Houston Grand Opera Studio in the 2020-21 season and performed Billy King in the world premiere of Damien Sneed’s Marian’s Song and Monterone in Rigoletto. Other notable performances of that season included the roles of Colline in a reduced production of La bohème and Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd with Wolf Trap Opera, Monterone in Rigoletto with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and both Olin Blitch in Susannah and Achilla in Giulio Cesare at Rice University.

An avid concert performer and recitalist, Nicholas Newton is an alumnus of Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute and has toured with renowned pianist, Kevin Murphy, and performed at the Tucson Desert Song Festival. He also has worked with the Cincinnati Song Initiative and performed in their virtual recital series: A World of Song, and appeared in Houston Grand Opera’s Giving Voice: Lawrence Brownlee & Friends concert. Other notable concert performances include Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Fauré’s Requiem, Stephen Paulus’ To Be Certain of the Dawn, Gershwin’s Catfish Row with San Diego Winds, Duruflé’s Requiem with San Diego Master Chorale, and the world premiere of Michael Capp’s Christmas Revels with Las Colinas Symphony.

Nicholas Newton trained as a Studio Artist and Filene Artist with Wolf Trap Opera, a Young Artist with Aspen Music Festival, in the Young Artists Vocal Academy of Houston Grand Opera, and in San Diego Opera’s Opera Exposed program. A 2021 Sullivan Award-winner, he earned his Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from San Diego State University studying with Laurinda Nikkel and his Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Rice University under the tutelage of Dr. Stephen King.