David Walton's performances for the current season include Ramiro in La Cenerentola with Toledo Opera, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Annapolis Opera, Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with North Carolina Opera, Filippo in Haydn’s L’infedeltá delusa with Sarasota Opera, Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance with Opera San Antonio, and the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Boise Philharmonic and Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Columbus Symphony.

As a favorite tenor of bel canto, Mr. Walton has frequented such roles as Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Tonio in La fille du régiment, Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He has been described as “this production’s breakthrough performance” (Pioneer Press) and “the sweetest singing of the evening...a lyric tenor with strong Italianate stylings” (Star Tribune), “a 21st century Rossini tenor” (Opera War Horses), and “smooth, lyrical, and capable of scaling the heights” (Virginia Pilot). Company appearances include Cincinnati Opera, Kentucky Opera, Virginia Opera, Minnesota Opera, and the Glimmerglass Festival in a new production by Francesca Zambello where Opera News labeled him “genuinely funny.” Other operas include Rossini’s L’occasione fa il ladro and La scala di seta, Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Handel’s Acis and Galatea. 

David has sung multiple new works and world premieres throughout the country as a flexible and collaborative artist for opera and chamber music. Contemporary repertoire includes Tom in the world premiere of Companionship by Rachel Peters with Fort Worth Opera, Younger Thompson in Glory Denied with Union Avenue Opera, and multiple productions as part of the New Works Initiative with Minnesota Opera such as The Shining by Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell, and Dinner at Eight by William Bolcom and Mark Campbell.