KRISTOPHER IRMITER,
bass-baritone
Director - Young Artist Program
Kristopher Irmiter
has performed in all
50 states and throughout Canada - a favourite with more than 45 opera
companies and numerous orchestras. He has garnered praise from the San
Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times: “his voice as notable for it’s
security and tonal weight as for an abundant variety of phrasing - excellent,
richly expressive - alternately stentorian and tender” with equal praise
of his dramatic skills; “commanding charismatic stage presence - enough
talent to succeed on his acting ability alone - powerful performance”.
With 85 roles in his performed repertoire, Mr. Irmiter has exhibited a vast
range both vocally and dramatically in performances with San Francisco Opera,
Florida Grand Opera, L’Opéra de Montreal, Houston Grand Opera, Baltimore
Opera, Atlanta Opera, Hawaii Opera, Utah Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Opera Lyra
Ottawa and Arizona Opera among others.
Upcoming performances include return engagements with San Francisco Opera as Escamillo in Carmen, Pittsburgh Opera as Lt. Redburn in Billy Budd, Opera Carolina in the title role of Don Giovanni, and Atlanta Opera as Rucker Lattimore in Cold Sassy Tree. Mr. Irmiter will also debut with San Diego Opera in Peter Grimes. The ‘05-’06 season included return engagements with Florentine Opera as Don Pizarro in Fidelio and Opera Columbus as Peter in Hansel & Gretel. He made his debut with Arizona Opera in the title role of Der Fliegende Hollander and also bowed as Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro with three companies: Toledo Opera, Manitoba Opera, and Utah Festival Opera. In the previous season he debuted seven new roles - Don Profundo in Il Viaggio a Reims with Portland Opera, the title role in Der Fliegende Hollander with Alaska Opera, the Four Villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann with Opera Lyra Ottawa, and John Proctor in The Crucible with Utah Festival Opera - and also appeared as Don Alfonso in Cosi Fan Tutte with Utah Opera.