Liam Bonner, Date of Birth

    

Liam Bonner

American Opera Singer, Baritone

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1981

Profession: singer, opera singer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Liam Bonner

  • Liam Bonner (born March 18, 1981) is a retired professional opera singer (baritone) from Pittsburgh, PA. In his former career as an artist, Bonner was praised by Opera News for his “rich, versatile voice” and “beautiful instrument”.
  • Highlights of his performing career included his Metropolitan Opera, debut in 2010 as Morales in Carmen and the role of Horatio in Hamlet, which was one of the Metropolitan Opera’s HD broadcasts that same season.He created the role of Lieutenant Audebert in the Pulitzer Prize winning opera, Silent Night, with Minnesota Opera and reprised the role with Opera Philadelphia and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.Bonner’s repertoire included a majority of Britten baritone roles including the title role in Billy Budd with LA Opera,directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by James Conlon, and Ned Keene in a concert version of Peter Grimes with the St Louis Symphony, performed at Carnegie Hall.
  • He was very much at home in the French repertoire, performing such roles as PellĂ©as in Debussy’s PellĂ©as and MĂ©lisande with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Zurga in Les pĂŞcheurs de perles with New Orleans Opera,and the title role of Hamlet with Washington National Opera and conducted by Plácido Domingo.Liam enjoyed mostly a stateside career, though notable international performances included Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with English National Opera in London, Henri de Valois in Chabrier’s Le roi malgrĂ© lui with the Wexford Festival Opera in Wexford, Ireland, and The Elder Son in Britten’s The Prodigal Son with Teatro dell’Opera Roma in Rome, Italy. Bonner is a former member of the Houston Grand Opera, Studio, as well as San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program and a Studio and Apprentice Artist at Central City Opera.
  • He is the recipient of a Richard F.
  • Gold Career Grant from the Shoshanna Foundation, a first-prize winner of the Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, a national semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and an award winner from the George London Foundation, the Lotte Lenya Competition, the First International Pavel Lisitsian Baritone Competition in Moscow, Russia, , and the Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition.

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