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Spencer Hamlin
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Spencer Hamlin has been praised by Opera News for
his “scintillatingly smooth” and “dazzling Italianate
voice.” Hamlin recently made his Metropolitan Opera
debut performing the role of the Marschallin’s MajorDomo in Der Rosenkavalier. In the summer of 2023 he
makes his Santa Fe Opera debut as Spoletta in Tosca.
In 2022 he sang Mr. Angel in The Impresario with
Syracuse Opera, Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with
Opera Theater of Connecticut and debuted several
roles in the New York City Opera premiere of Ricky
Ian Gordon’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. He
also performed Il Cantatore in verismo masterpiece
Giulietta et Romeo with Teatro Grattacielo, returned to Odyssey Opera as Albert in
Rachmaninoff’s The Miserly Knight, joined Tulsa Opera as Second Nazarene
in Salome, sang Alfredo in La Traviata with Opera Theater of Connecticut, debuted
with Salt Marsh Opera as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi and The Defendant in and Trial
by Jury, and returned to NYCO for All Is Calm.
In 2021 Spencer was heard as Monostatos in The Magic Flute and Ruiz in Il Trovatore
at the Glimmerglass Festival. He sang Don José in a virtual production of Carmen
with Brooklyn College Conservatory, and was a soloist in Playhouse on Park’s filmed
production of All is Calm. He was scheduled to perform the Duke of Norfolk in
Elisabetta, regina
d’Inghilterra with Odyssey Opera as well as Max in The Sound of Music and Gunther
in Wagner’s Die Feen with the Glimmerglass Festival in 2020, but the productions
were cancelled due to the pandemic.
Other roles include Chekalinsky in The Queen of Spades, Bégearss in The Ghosts of
Versailles, Il principe di Persia in Turandot, Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and
Detective Thibodeau in the New York premiere of Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne.
Additional roles include Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Tonio in La fille du régiment,
Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Judge Danforth in The Crucible, Ernesto in Don Pasquale,
The Witch in Hansel and Gretel, the title role in Albert Herring, Henrik in A Little Night
Music, and Laurie in Little Women.
Concert appearances include Mozart’s Requiem and Bruckner’s Te Deum with the
Waterbury Chorale, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with the York Symphony as well as
Theofanidis’ The Urgency of Love with the New Haven Chorale and Handel’s Messiah
with Symphoria.An Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Hartford,
CT, he received his master’s degree from the University of Connecticut.
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