Eric Owens

Education: Temple University and the Curtis Institute of Music

Opera: Doctor Atomic, L’Italiana in Algeri, Rigoletto, Otello, St. François d’Assise, Norma, Aida, Il Trovatore, La Boheme, Die Zauberflöte, Simon Boccanegra, La Sonnambula, Ariodante, di Lammermoor, Don Giovanni, Banquo, The Rape of Lucretia

Has performed with: San Francisco Opera, Grand Theatre de Geneve, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Colorado, Cincinnati Opera, Royal Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Paris Opera (Bastille), Washington Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Minnesota Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, National Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Bachakademie Stuttgart

Awards and Honors: 2003 Marian Anderson Award; winner, Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition; First Prize, Mario Lanza Voice Competition

Coming up: Elliot Goldenthal’s Grendel with Los Angeles Opera in a production by Julie Taymor, and Mozart’s Sarastro at the Opera Angers-Nantes