Nmon Ford

Panamanian American baritone Nmon Ford’s recent highlights include his appearances as Escamillo Carmen at Opera Colorado, English National Opera and Calgary Opera. He joined Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for St Matthew Passion and with Fort Worth Symphony he performed a staged version of The Creation. Contracted for the role of Sharpless Madama Butterfly during the summer at Cincinnati Opera, this season he sings the role again at Detroit Opera, and travels to Opera Carolina for Silvio I Pagliacci before joining Cincinnati Symphony for concert performances of Hamlet as The Spectre. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony takes him to the Pomona Orchestra, and he returns to Opera Colorado for High Priest Samson et Dalilah.

A feature of past seasons includes his exceptionally reviewed performances as Crown in the new Metropolitan Opera production of Porgy and Bess at English National Opera; and also for the title role Don Giovanni in the UK’s Dorset Opera Festival.  He sang A Sea Symphony under the baton of Robert Spano with Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and his own composition, The House of Orpheus, which was slated for a premiere run in March 2020 at London’s Young Vic Theatre directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, is set for a US premiere in Season 2024/25.