Dylan Wright

Bass-Baritone

Originally from Calgary, AB, bass-baritone Dylan Wright has been praised for “seducing the audience with his rich, sonorous voice” (Beat Magazine) and is a graduate of the Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal. He recently sang Fasolt and Hagen in Berlin Wagner Gruppe and Opera by Request’s full concert production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, the four Villains in Toronto City Opera’s ‘Les Contes D’Hoffmann’, the Bonze and the Imperial Commissioner in Windsor Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Madama Butterfly’, and created the roles of Sherman Booth and Thomas Montgomery in the new opera ‘Joshua’ by Colin Mendez Morris with ArsMusica. He was last at Highlands Opera Studio in 2016, when he sang Mephistopheles in Gounod’s ‘Faust’. Other operatic highlights include the titular role in ‘Don Pasquale’, Dulcamara in ‘L’elisir d’amore’, Leporello and Il Commendatore in ‘Don Giovanni’ and the title role and Bartolo in ‘Le nozze di Figaro’, Seneca in ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’, Colline in ‘La Boheme’, Rocco in ‘Fidelio’, Frère Laurent in ‘Roméo et Juliette’, Zaccaria in ‘Nabucco’, and Cadmus and Somnus in ‘Semele’. Dylan has also performed as the soloist in such oratorios as the Mozart Reqiuem, Handel’s ‘Messiah’, Haydn’s ‘Die Schöpfung’, and Beethoven’s ‘Mass in C Major’ as well as in musical theatre as Emile de Becque in South Pacific. He holds a MMus in Opera from the University of Toronto and currently studies with Jason Howard.