Joshua Conyers
Baritone
Grammy-nominated Baritone Joshua Conyers has been hailed by Opera News with “a deliciously honeyed baritone that would seduce anyone” and The New York Times as having “a sonorous baritone” that “wheedled and seduced.” Mr. Conyers, a native of Bronx, NY, is quickly being championed for his captivating performances as he continues to be recognized as one the promising young dramatic voices of today.
For the 2022-2023 season, Mr. Conyers will make his international debut performing Policeman 3/Congregant 3 and covering The Reverend in Jeanine Tesori’s Blue with the English National Opera (ENO), cover the role of Garby in Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s The Factotum with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and perform Reginald in Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X with the Opera Omaha, as well as Detroit Opera and Odyssey Opera. Mr. Conyers made a studio recording of the role Reginald in the 2023 Grammy-nominated X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP).
Equally active in contemporary opera, Mr. Conyers performed the role of Uncle Wesley in Carlos Simon’s Night Trip for Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative and Ed in the world premiere of Everything for Dawn produced by Experiments in Opera with leading composers Kamala Sankaram and Aaron Siegel. Mr. Conyers covered the roles of Mr. Umeya in the American premiere of Huang Ruo’s Dr. Sun Yat-Sen in Mandarin Chinese, and Walt Whitman in the world premiere of Theodore Morrison’s Oscar, both with the Santa Fe Opera.
Career Highlights
In the 2021-22 season, Mr. Conyers performed the roles of Policeman 3/Congregant 3 in Blue with Seattle Opera, Bilal in Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Git There from the new opera Proximity (workshop) with Chicago Lyric Opera, Tonio in Pagliacci with Opera Memphis, and Count Capulet in Roméo et Juliette at Boston Lyric Opera.
In the summer of 2021, Joshua was a Fleming Artist at the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS performing the role of Sprecher in W. A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte alongside world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming, under the baton of maestro Patrick Summers. Mr. Conyers was an Atlanta Opera Studio Player at The Atlanta Opera for the 2020-2021 season. Joshua performed the roles of Jackie “Tiger” Brown in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, Tonio in Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, and covered Kaiser Overall in Viktor Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Mr. Conyers was a member of the Cafritz Young Artists of Washington National Opera, for the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons.
Joshua performed the roles of First Priest in The Magic Flute, John Sorel in The Consul, covered the Reverend in Tesori’s Blue, Jim and Jake (cover) in Porgy and Bess, Giorgio Germont in La traviata, British Major in Silent Night, Donkey in The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me, and Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin. As a Filene Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, he performed Porgy in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess: A Concert of Songs, Ramiro in Maurice Ravel’s L’heure espagnole, Musiklehrer in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, Monterone in Rigoletto, Count Capulet in Roméo et Juliette, and the Baritone Soloist in Bernstein’s Songfest which was recorded by Naxos Records. Mr. Conyers fulfilled his residency as a Benenson Young Artist at Palm Beach Opera in 2018.
Last updated: 7th December 2022