SCHEDULE

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Abduction from the Seraglio
​/Mozart

9.29 & 30, 10.6 & 7 Livermore Valley Opera
Bankhead Theatre, Livermore, CA 

The Daughter of the Regiment
/Donizetti 

11.10, 15 & 18 Opera Carolina
Belk Theater at Blumenthal ​Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC

Messiah
/Handel 

12.14.2018 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Woodruff Center for the Performing Arts 
Atlanta, GA 

​A Three Tenors Christmas

12.20-22 Chanhassen Dinner Theatre 
The Fireside Theater, Chanhassen, MN

A Young Man's Exhortation/Finzi
​Winter Words /Britten

2.7.2019 Mark Bilyeu, piano
Schubert Club Courtroom Concerts, 
​Saint Paul, MN

On Whenlock Edge
​/Vaughan Williams 

2.17.2019 Joya Concert Series with pianist Mary Jo Gothmann
Zion Lutheran Church, Anoka, MN

The Fix WORLD PREMIERE 
/Puckett

3.16, 19, 21, 23, & 24 2019 Minnesota Opera 
 Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Saint Paul, MN

Requiem 
/Mozart

4.27 & 28 2019 Reno Philharmonic 
Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, ​Reno, NV 

Companionship
​ WORLD PREMIERE
/Peters 

5.1, 3, & 5 2019 Fort Worth Opera 
Fort Worth Botanic Garden, ​Fort Worth, TX 

Cantata BWV 132 & 164 
/Bach

5.13.2019 Minnesota Bach Ensemble 
Macphail Center for Music, Minneapolis, MN

Fidelio 
/Beethoven

6.2 & 8 2019 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 
Woodruff Center for the Performing Arts, Atlanta, GA 

Ariadne auf Naxos
/Strauss

7.6, 11, 13 & 14 2019 Cincinnati Opera 
School for Creative and Performing Arts
Cincinnati, OH

Glory Denied 
/Cipullo

8.16, 17, 23, & 24 Union Avenue Opera
Union Avenue Christian Church 
Saint Louis, MO

David Walton has made numerous appearances across the country as an up-and-coming lyric tenor. Recent roles include Count Almaviva, " a reedy tenor with requisite Rossini high notes" (TheWall Street Journal) in Francesca Zambello's new production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia at The Glimmerglass Festival and Ernesto in Don Pasquale with Minnesota Opera, where David was hailed as “a true lyric tenor with strong Italianate stylings" and credited with “the sweetest singing of the evening” (Star Tribune). Other operatic appearances include the title role in Albert Herring with Union Avenue Opera, Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Madison Opera,  and Tonio in La fille du régiment with Opera Carolina. 
 
David spent two years as a member of Minnesota Opera’s prestigious Resident Artist Program. There, he sang Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Tybalt in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Other credits as a Resident Artist include multiple world premieres including covering Larry Renault in William Bolcom’s Dinner at Eight and singing Delbert Grady in Paul Moravec's The Shining, where Opera News described Mr. Walton as "equally chilling in his casual charm and suavity." 
 
Mr. Walton made his Glimmerglass debut as Parpignol in La bohème and sang the role of Count Alberto in Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro as a member of their Young Artist Program. He also covered Reverend Parris in Francesca Zambello’s staging of The Crucible, performed the tenor solo from Rossini’s Stabat Mater, and played Frederic in a scene from ThePirates of Penzance for special guest Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As a Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Mr. Walton covered Matthew Gurney in Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, sang a Student in La rondine, and Belmonte in scenes from Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio with the Saint Louis Symphony.  He also sang Azor in Opera for the Young’s tour of Zemire et Azor by André Grétry and both Belmonte and Ernesto with Brava! Opera Theatre in Ashland, Oregon. David sang with Cantus Vocal Ensemble for three full seasons, touring the country and the world appearing at The Kennedy Center, The Royal Opera House of Muscat Oman, NPR Tiny Desk, and A Prairie Home Companion.
 
David is a 2017 Sullivan Grant Winner with the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation. He
won 2nd Place and Italian Diction award in the 2017 Marcello Giordani Foundation International Vocal Competition, 2nd place and Audience Choice Award with the 2017 Opera Birmingham Vocal Competition, and was District Winner in Minnesota for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Concert highlights include performing the tenor solo in Handel's Messiah with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and Rogue Valley Symphony; Mendelssohn's Lobgesangwith Lipscomb University; Carmina Burana with the Virginia Tech Symphony; Cantata BWV 88 with the Minnesota Bach Ensemble; Bach's Magnificat and Cantata BWV 80 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Robert Spano. Future concert performances include recitals with the Schubert Club and JOYA concert series plus Mozart's Requiem with the Reno Philharmonic and National Lutheran Choir. 
 
Upcoming roles include Jaquino in Fidelio with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Tanzmeister and Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos with Cincinnati Opera, Tom in the world premiere of Rachel Peter's Companionship at Fort Worth Opera and a return to Minnesota Opera as Happy Felsch in the world premiere of composer Joel Puckett and librettist Eric Simonson's The Fix.
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