Biography
Tenor
Aaron Sheehan
Aaron Sheehan made his professional operatic debut with the Boston Early Music Festival in the 2005 world premiere staging of Mattheson’s Boris Gudenow, and went on to further roles with BEMF in Lully’s Psyché; Charpentier’s Actéon; Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and L’incoronazione di Poppea; Steffani’s Orlando; Desmarest’s Circé; and Handel’s Acis and Galatea.
Sheehan appears on more than 35 recordings, including Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Boston Early Music Festival, Rameau’s Le Temple de la Gloire and Handel’s Saul with Philharmonia Baroque, and Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with Boston Baroque. He sang the title role in BEMF’s recording of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux enfers, which won Best Opera Recording at the 2015 Grammy Awards.
Recent appearances include the Seattle Symphony, Armenian Philharmonic, Smithsonian Museum, American Bach Soloists, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, and National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. He has also been heard with Pacific Music Works, Blue Heron Choir, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Paul Hillier’s Theater of Voices, Royal Opera at Versailles, Tanglewood Music Festival, New Zealand Festival of the Arts, San Francisco Early Music Festival, and Vancouver Early Music Festival. He makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with these performances.
Sheehan appears on more than 35 recordings, including Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Boston Early Music Festival, Rameau’s Le Temple de la Gloire and Handel’s Saul with Philharmonia Baroque, and Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with Boston Baroque. He sang the title role in BEMF’s recording of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux enfers, which won Best Opera Recording at the 2015 Grammy Awards.
Recent appearances include the Seattle Symphony, Armenian Philharmonic, Smithsonian Museum, American Bach Soloists, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, and National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. He has also been heard with Pacific Music Works, Blue Heron Choir, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Paul Hillier’s Theater of Voices, Royal Opera at Versailles, Tanglewood Music Festival, New Zealand Festival of the Arts, San Francisco Early Music Festival, and Vancouver Early Music Festival. He makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with these performances.
