Baritone
Kenneth Overton has consistently received accolades for his rich gleaming
voice and his many layered, powerful interpretations. He recently toured
the British Isles as Porgy in Living Arts’ Porgy and Bess
and, in the same role, opened Opera Memphis' 51st season. He also makes
his début this season with Stadttheater Klagenfurt as Jake (Porgy
and Bess). He recently sang his first Escamillo (Carmen)
with Missouri Symphony Society, and well as Leporello (Don Giovanni)
with Opera Memphis, Ping (Turandot) with Sacramento Opera, Bello
(La Fancuilla del West) with Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center,
as Bass soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Annapolis
Symphony Orchestra, and as the Baritone soloist in Vaughan Williams' Five
Mystical Songs with the Oratorio Society of New Jersey. In March
of 2007, Mr. Overton performs the role of Stephen Kumalo in Lost in
the Stars with Skylark Opera.
Last
season, Mr. Overton returned to Connecticut Opera for Taddeo (L’Italiana
in Algeri) and appeared as Sharpless (Madama Butterfly)
and Schaunard (La Bohème) with Metro Lyric Opera (NJ).
He also appeared as soloist in Schubert’s Mass in Ab with
the Summit Chorale Festival (NJ), in addition to his Spain tour with the
American Spiritual Ensemble.