Bio

Wesley Rogers made his Seattle Opera debut as Maintop in Britten’s Billy Budd and has returned here to sing the Fourth Jew in Richard Strauss’s Salome and Trin in Puccini’s Fanciulla del West. While completing his M.A. at the University of Washington, he sang the Professor in Ravel’s Enfant et les sortilèges and Sam in Weill’s Street Scene. In 2005, he joined Seattle Opera’s Young Artists Program and appeared as Quint/Narrator in Britten’s Turn of the Screw. Other engagements include performances with Opera Memphis, Eos, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and the Cabrillo Festival. In May 2006, he sang the Evangelist in American Bach Soloists’s St. Matthew Passion. He returns to Seattle Opera in August for Richard Strauss’s Rosenkavalier.