Ryan Belongie

Ryan Belongie has been praised for “oft-astounding vocalism” (San Francisco Classical Voice), a “remarkably warm, evenly produced voice whose supple phrasing included many an exquisite shade” (Opera News), and “wonderfully stylish singing” (Chicago Tribune) in repertoire spanning early music and baroque to contemporary music. His operatic credits
include engagements with major companies including San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Metropolitan Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Atlanta Opera, Boston Baroque, Tulsa Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Bergen, St. Petersburg Opera, Long Beach Opera, Festival Napa Valley, West Edge Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera. His concert appearances include engagements with the Alabama Symphony, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Elmhurst Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Grant Park Music Festival, Il Complesso Barocco, Kansas City Symphony, Leipzig Baroque Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, Music of the Baroque, San Diego Symphony, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Utah Festival Opera, and Utah Symphony. With Haymarket Opera Company, he has previously performed the title role in Handel’s Tamerlano and Mardocheo in Stradella’s Ester.

Mr. Belongie has been heard on Chicago classical music station WFMT in numerous performances with Music of the Baroque as well as in a solo recital on the network’s “Live from WFMT” series. He has also appeared on PBS in A Renaissance Christmas. Born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Ryan Belongie is an alumnus of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program and Adler Fellowship and the Vocal Honors Program at Northwestern University.

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