“…Roy Hage was in full control of the textures and dynamics of his voice, which could pierce through haze like a lightning bolt or build slowly and magically, like liquid filling a vessel.”

Berkshire Eagle

Roy Hage is a Lebanese-American tenor and singing actor whose work spans opera, musical theatre, concert performance, and the creation of new works. Praised for his “uncommonly beautiful voice” (Musical America) and emotionally fearless performances, Roy has emerged as one of the most versatile artists of his generation.

Growing up in war-torn Beirut, Roy sang along with opera recordings in his bedroom to drown out the sound of bombs before moving alone to the United States at sixteen to pursue a life in music. He is humbled to have grown from a child refuge in music into Lebanon’s first professional operatic tenor and multi-GRAMMY® nominee collaborating with many of the artists who first inspired his love for the art form.

A true singing actor with one of the widest role ranges in opera, Roy has performed 47 roles spanning lead roles in The Tales of Hoffmann, Roméo et Juliette, Candide, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Rake’s Progress, Manon, and West Side Story. A specialist in new works and opera in English, he has collaborated with Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur, GRAMMY®, Tony, and Emmy-winning artists and composers, helping shape landmark contemporary works.

Roy recently returned to LA Opera to create the role of Volmar in Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Hildegard, a critically acclaimed world premiere he later reprised at the PROTOTYPE Festival in New York. He also made his Williamstown Theatre Festival debut as Anatol in Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, hailed by many as the crowning jewel of the legendary festival’s season. Next, Roy returns to Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the company where he made his professional stage debut, to sing Fabrizio Naccarelli in The Light in the Piazza alongside broadway veterans Kate Baldwin and Paulo Szot and celebrated soprano Katrina Galka. @roythetenor