Anthony Roth Costanzo

Grammy-winning countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of eleven and has since appeared in opera, concert, and recital, as well as on film and in Broadway productions. He is the general director and president of Opera Philadelphia and the artistic director of SongStudio at Carnegie Hall. He has appeared with many of the world’s leading opera companies and orchestras, including the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra. He has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Versailles, Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl, Kabuki-Za Tokyo, the Guggenheim, and Little Island. As a producer he has created projects for Paris Opera, New York Philharmonic, BBC Proms, WQXR, and St. Ann’s Warehouse, among others. Costanzo graduated with honors from Princeton University and Manhattan School of Music, where he is now on the board of trustees. Costanzo holds an honorary doctorate from Manhattan School of Music, a History Makers Award from the New York Historical, a board seat with National Black Theater, and has been a visiting fellow at Oxford University and a distinguished visiting scholar at Harvard. His new book Countertenor is set for release this fall.