Jarrett Ott
Visiting Faculty
Baritone
American baritone Jarrett Ott, one of Opera News’ 25 “Rising Stars” and “a man who is seemingly incapable of an unmusical phrase,” is enjoying an international career.
In the 2025–26 season, Mr. Ott returns to Santa Fe Opera and Lyric Opera Kansas City as Sharpless in Madame Butterfly, Seattle Opera as Hawkins Fuller in Fellow Travelers, and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Opéra de Lille. In concert, he makes his Carnegie Hall recital debut with pianist Kunal Lahiry, a program they will also perform at the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris, Pascal Dusapin’s Antigone at the Philharmonie de Paris, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Minnesota Orchestra, and Vaughan-Williams’ A Sea Symphony with the Seattle Symphony.
In the 2024–25 season, Mr. Ott made his Metropolitan Opera debut singing Agrippa in John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra and reprised Rameau’s Samson with the Opéra Comique in Paris. Other appearances included Conte in Le nozze di Figaro with Teatro Regio di Torino, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with the Grand Théâtre de Genève, and concert appearances with the Grand Teatro del Liceu as Riff in West Side Story, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées on tour in Europe, and a tour of Mozart’s Requiem with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights of his many concert appearances include the title role in David Lang’s world-premiere prisoner of the state with the New York Philharmonic and Stephano in Sibelius’ The Tempest and Weimar Nightfall: The Seven Deadly Sins at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mr. Ott has performed the world premiere of Hyland Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and pieces by Vito Zuraj and Bach with Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris. Mr. Ott has toured with MusicAeterna as Don Pedro de Alvorado in concerts of Purcell’s Indian Queen, with stops in Geneva, Köln, Bremen and Dortmund, and later in a run of shows at the Salzburg Festival, was a featured soloist with Le Concert d’Astrée for a gala event at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, which was later released on Warner Classics/Erato, and Maximilian in Candide with the Hamburg Symphoniker at the Lausitz Festival.
A native of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, Jarrett Ott is based in New York and received his master’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music.