American baritone Robert Mellon was acclaimed by Opera News for having “excellent comic timing,” and a “domineering baritone, gleaming like polished copper.” During the 2021-2022 season Mr. Mellon will be debuting the roles of Marcello in La bohème and Gubetta in Lucrezia Borgia with Opera de Oviedo; and will make his Pensacola Opera debut reprising the role of Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. Mr. Mellon will also be debuting the role of Iago in a reimagined production of Verdi's Otello with InSeries Opera in Washington D.C.; he will be reprising the role of Marullo in Verdi's Rigoletto with Opera Philadelphia; and he will return to the role of Falstaff in Verdi’s Falstaff with Union Avenue Opera. During the 2022-2023 season, Mr. Mellon will be making his role debuts in L’Italiana in Algeri as Taddeo with Tulsa Opera and Germont in La Traviata with Opera Las Vegas; and reprising the roles of Marcello in La bohème with Pensacola Opera and Tonio in Pagliacci with Opera Tampa. In recent seasons, Mr. Mellon has performed the roles of Schaunard in La bohème with San Diego Opera; Malatesta in Don Pasquale with Opera Las Vegas; Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Union Avenue Opera; Simone in Eine Florentinische Tragödie and Tonio in Pagliacci with Opera de Oviedo; and the title role in Gianni Schicchi and Simone in Eine Florentinische Tragödie with Livermore Valley Opera, about which the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “Baritone Robert Mellon was both the musical star of the performance and its dramatic vertex…with a steely vocal edge that never interfered with the beauty and flexibility of his singing.” Other roles include Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Don Alfonso in Cosí fan tutte, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Escamillo in Carmen, Dancaïre in Carmen, Pizarro in Fidelio, Sam in Trouble in Tahiti, and Macbeth in the U.S. premiere of Ernest Bloch’s Macbeth. Concert work includes the Mozart and Duruflé Requiems, Dvorak’s Te Deum, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Bach’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, Fauré’s Christmas Oratorio, and Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death.