Ryan Speedo Green

A native of Suffolk, Virginia, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green has quickly garnered an international reputation as a “breakthrough star”, appearing at many of the world’s most important opera houses and music festivals. Roles for the Wiener Staasoper have included Sarastro Die Zauberflöte, Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor, Banquo Macbeth, Titurel Parsifal, Der Einarmige Die Frau ohne Schatten and Lodovico Otello, amongst others. Mr Green began his 2020/21 season with a house debut at the Theater an der Wien as Jake in Porgy & Bess. Upcoming highlights will include a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Jake and as Colline La boheme. In 2016, Little, Brown & Company published ‘Sing for Your Life’, by New York Times journalist Daniel Bergner, telling the story of Mr Green’s personal and artist