Donnie Ray Albert (born January 10, 1950) is an American operatic baritone who has had an active international career since 1976.
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Albert graduated from McKinley Senior High School in 1968.
[1] The following year he returned to that house to sing the role of Jake Wallace in Giacomo Puccini's La Fanciulla del West and portray Porgy to the Bess of Clamma Dale in a highly lauded production of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
In 1982 he made his debut at the Opera Company of Boston and sang at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
Other roles he has performed on stage include Varlaam in Boris Godunov, Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Count Monterone in Verdi's Rigoletto, Don Carlo in Verdi's Ernani, Don Fernando in Beethoven's Fidelio, Escamillo in Georges Bizet's Carmen, Ferrando in Verdi's Il trovatore, Iago in Verdi's Otello, Jack Rance in Giacomo Puccini's La fanciulla del West, Jochanaan in Richard Strauss' Salome, Nourabad in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles, Timur in Puccini's Turandot, Valentin in Charles Gounod's Faust, and the title role in Verdi's Nabucco, Trinity Moses in Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, and the title role in Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones.