American bass-baritone Alan Higgs is an alumnus of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where during his residency he performed The King in Cendrillon, the Second Trojan Man in Idomeneo, Count Ceprano in Rigoletto and Gualtiero Valton in I puritani, along with other assignments. His 2021-2022 season includes Monterone in Rigoletto with Florentine Opera, Colline in La Bohème with Vero Beach Opera, and a return to the Lyric Opera of Chicago in the spring of 2022 as the Sacristan in Tosca. Most recently, he performed the role of Alidoro with Dayton Opera and was in rehearsals for Pandolfe in Cinderella with Opera Birmingham when the pandemic shut down occurred. In 2019, he returned to The Atlanta Opera as Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata and Santa Fe Opera as the Mayor in Jenufa. His 2019-2020 season included his debut with San Antonio Opera as Angelotti and Sciarrone in Tosca, Alidoro in Cenerentola as well as the Fifth Jew and a Cappadocian in Salome, both with The Atlanta Opera, and Handel’s Messiah with the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mr. Higgs has enjoyed considerable success as a young artist. In 2021, he was the recipient of the Tommy and Simonetta Special Award in the Vero Beach Opera Rising Stars Competition. In 2018, he received both a Solti Foundation and American Opera Society Scholarship. He is also the recipient of a 2016-2017 Sullivan Foundation Award and was a Semifinalist of the 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

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