Bass-baritone Adam Cioffari recently made his debut with New York City Opera in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's The Garden of the Finzi Continis. In this current season, he will debut the roles of Capulet in Romeo et Juliette at Central City Opera and Tom in Un Ballo in Maschera with Maryland Lyric Opera, as well as reprise the role of Fasolt in Das Rheingold with Dayton Opera. Mr. Cioffari recently returned to Pittsburgh Festival Opera as Count Lamoral in Arabella and Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd. He performed as bass soloist in Handel's Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, as well as Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Arkansas Symphony.

Other role credits include the Commentator in the world premiere of Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg at the Castleton Festival, the Musiklehrer (Ariadne auf Naxos) at The Glimmerglass Festival, Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) at Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Colline (La bohème) with Knoxville Opera, the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Columbus, and Masetto (Don Giovanni) with Austin Opera.

He has performed with prestigious organizations such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Theatre Capitole de Toulouse, Staatsoper Stuttgart, and Komische Oper Berlin. Mr. Cioffari is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, as well as the Merola Opera Program, Music Academy of the West, and Aspen Opera Theater. He earned his MM and BM degrees in Voice Performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.