Carnegie Hall

Three-time Grammy Award–winning bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green has established himself as an artist of international demand at the world’s leading opera houses and orchestras. The 2024–2025 season sees his role debut as Klingsor in Parsifal with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He returns to the Metropolitan Opera for his 13th season, during which he appears as Queequeg in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick, marking the house premiere of the opera; he also reprises Fernando in Il trovatore and Der Gesiterbote in Die Frau ohne Schatten conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Mr. Green returns to Santa Fe Opera for his role debut as Wotan in Die Walküre.

His orchestral appearances include a return to the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal for Bruckner’s Te Deum with Mr. Nézet-Séguin, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons. Recital appearances include his debut at Carnegie Hall as well as with Los Angeles Opera, Opera Colorado, and True Concord Voices & Orchestra in Tucson, Arizona. He also returns to his role as artist-in-residence with Florida State University for a series of master classes and an orchestral concert.

Mr. Green’s 2023–2024 season featured a number of important role debuts, including Heinrich der Vogler in Lohengrin with both Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Bavarian State Opera, the title role in Don Giovanni with Santa Fe Opera, Charles in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones at the Metropolitan Opera, and Wotan in Das Rheingold in concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.

In the fall of 2016, Little, Brown and Company published Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family by Daniel Bergner. The book tells the story of Mr. Green’s personal and artistic journey from a trailer park in southeastern Virginia and time spent in a juvenile facility to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

Mr. Green received his master’s degree from Florida State University and his bachelor’s degree from The Hartt School. He was also a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

Pianist Adam Nielsen enjoys a diverse career as a collaborative pianist, répétiteur, coach, and artistic administrator who is celebrated for his “deftly and sensitively played” performances (The New York Times). His recital collaborations with Ryan Speedo Green began in 2017 with a debut at Ravinia Festival’s Martin Theatre, and have since taken the pair to The Kennedy Center, The Wallis, and numerous venues across the United States.

In recent seasons, Mr. Nielsen’s recital collaboration with bass-baritone Davóne Tines took him to the stages of the Barbican, Stanford Live, Baltimore’s Shriver Hall Concert Series, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. He also maintains treasured recital collaborations with mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford and baritone Steven LaBrie. Other notable engagements from recent seasons include performances at The Frick Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, Alice Tully Hall, Aspen Music Festival and School, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, Heifetz Institute, and Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek, Colorado. He has appeared in concert with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, Fry Street Quartet, A Far Cry, Windscape, and in recital with Erin Morley, Joshua Hopkins, Liv Redpath, Jakub Józef Orliński, and Ying Fang, among others.

Mr. Nielsen currently serves as associate artistic director of the Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School. He joined the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera in 2018, where he serves as répétiteur and assistant conductor. In 2023, he was head coach for the Académie du Festival d’Aix en Provence.

Mr. Nielsen also enjoys a career as a recording artist for film and television. His playing can be heard in The Upside (STX / Lantern Entertainment), The Chaperone (PBS), Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, The Staircase (Netflix), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime Video), The Unforgivable (Netflix), and a new Martin Scorsese film, still untitled.

To learn more, visit adamnielsenpiano.com.