Royce Strider is best known throughout the U.S.A. as a versatile and charismatic singer and performer. He has sadly needed to postpone his Lincoln Center debut for the summer of 2020 as a Studio Artist with Teatro Nuovo, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020/2021 season will see Royce in new recordings of Le nozze di Figaro as part of the inaugural season with Social Distance Opera. He will also begin his third season on the roster of the Pittsburgh Camerata. With an affinity for early music, Royce recently completed training in Baroque performance at the Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music Baroque Collective program. He was also named a National Finalist for the 2018-2019 American Prize in Art Song/Oratorio Performance. In the spring of 2018, he made his Mississippi debut with the Natchez Festival of Music as Carl-Magnus Malcolm (A Little Night Music), as well as his Pittsburgh debut as part of the Ensemble for Disney’s The Little Mermaid with Pittsburgh Musical Theater. In 2017, Royce made his debut with Painted Sky Opera, covering Sacristan (Tosca). For the summers of 2015, 16, and 17, he worked with the Ohio Light Opera, performing an array of operetta and musical theater, including Oliver Hix (The Music Man), Prime Minister von Mark (The Student Prince), Prince Ulrich (The Lady of the Slipper), Second Gunman (Kiss Me Kate), Detective Baker (Jerome Kern’s Have A Heart), and covering Captain Corcoran (H.M.S. Pinafore) and Pish-Tush (The Mikado).