Eric Ferring

Emmy-winning, Billboard-charting American tenor Eric Ferring is known internationally as “a prodigiously gifted lyric tenor” (Opera News) for his “fine, gleaming tenor” (New York Classical Review) and “beautifully round and warm timbre, expressive, and with great finesse” (Olyrix). His expertise ranges from early bel canto repertoire and the music of Handel and Mozart to the origination of contemporary operatic roles.

During the 2025–2026 season, Ferring makes debuts with the Charlotte, New Jersey, and Knoxville Symphonies and returns to the Tampa Oratorio Singers and Art Song Chicago. He also makes his role and house debut as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at Opera Carolina and records his third solo album with Lexicon Classics.

Recent highlights include his symphonic debuts at the LA Philharmonic, Portland Symphony, and Ravinia Festival; engagements with Le Concert d’Astrée and Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center; his house debut at Opéra de Lille as Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni; debut at Opéra national de Paris as Lurcanio in Handel’s Ariodante; Tamino in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at both The Metropolitan Opera and Opéra national du Rhin; and Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Opéra de Rouen. Performing with The English Concert on a world tour, Ferring debuted as Grimoaldo in Handel’s Rodelinda. An alumnus of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center and Pittsburgh Opera’s Resident Artist Program, Eric serves as Assistant Regional Director at the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and Executive Director of Art Song Chicago.

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