Biography
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Morris Robinson
This season, Morris Robinson returned to the Metropolitan Opera for a new production of Aïda, Houston Grand Opera for Il trovatore, and Atlanta Opera in Macbeth, and appears in concert with the National Symphony and Boston Symphony. He has performed with many of the world’s leading opera companies including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Cincinnati Opera, La Scala, and the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Also a prolific concert singer, Robinson has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony, São Paulo Symphony, and NDR Elbphilharmonie. In recital he has been presented by Spivey Hall in Atlanta, the Savannah Music Festival, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Carnegie Hall as part of Jessye Norman’s HONOR! Festival. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in 2017’s Handel’s Messiah.
Robinson’s first album, Going Home, was released by Decca. He is also a featured artist on the LA Phil’s recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, which won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. An Atlanta native, he is a graduate of the Citadel and an alumnus of the Metropolitan Lindemann Young Artists Program.
Robinson’s first album, Going Home, was released by Decca. He is also a featured artist on the LA Phil’s recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, which won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. An Atlanta native, he is a graduate of the Citadel and an alumnus of the Metropolitan Lindemann Young Artists Program.
