Richard Cox

In the 2020-21 season, American tenor Richard Cox appears as Loge in Das Rheingold with Atlanta Opera and has recently appeared in the title role of Siegfried in concert with the North Carolina Opera, the role of Ahab in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick with the Chicago Opera Theater and Opera San José and Larry Renault for the European Premiere of William Bolcom and Mark Campbell’s Dinner at Eight at the Wexford Festival Opera.

Mr. Cox has appeared on the stages of The Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera Minnesota Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, North Carolina Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, New Orleans Opera, Opera San Jose, Glimmerglass Festival, Wexford Festival, Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, Palau de la Música de València, and Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile. He is a former ensemble member at Opera Frankfurt, where he appeared in several productions.

Mr. Cox has also sung with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, Colorado Music Festival, I Musici de Montreal Chamber Orchestra, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, and the Britt Festival.

Cox has earned grants from the George London Foundation, Sullivan Foundation, Opera Index Inc., the Olga Forrai Foundation, Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, and the Shoshana Foundation. He holds degrees from Tennessee Technological University, Florida State University, and The Juilliard School. He is currently on faculty at Bard College Conservatory of Music.