Kevin Short (bass-baritone)

A graduate of Morgan State University, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Juilliard School, he won the bass-baritone award for the Middle Atlantic region Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1989.

Some of the other roles he has performed at the Met are Colline in La bohème, the Friar in Don Carlos, Happy in La fanciulla del West, the Jailer in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Lackey in Ariadne auf Naxos, Mandarin in Turandot, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Sciarrone in Tosca, Pirro in I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Yamadori in Madama Butterfly, and Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin.

[2] He also sang several roles with the New York City Opera during the 1980s and 1990s, including Nourabad in Les pêcheurs de perles[3] and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor.

From 2001 to 2004 he was a member of Theater Basel, singing such roles as Landgrave in Tannhäuser, Mephistopheles in Faust, Oroveso in Norma, Sarastro in The Magic Flute, Seneca in L'incoronazione di Poppea, and Simone in Gianni Schicchi.

He appeared in the original production of William Bolcom's A Wedding at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in January 2005.