Deborah Sanders

Arts Management

Nmon Ford

Baritone

Panamanian American baritone Nmon Ford’s last season appearances include the role of Silvio Pagliacci at Opera Carolina, Le Spectre Hamlet with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Pomona Orchestra, a critically acclaimed High Priest Samson et Dalilah at Opera Colorado, and Sharpless Madama Butterfly at Cincinnati Opera and at Detroit Opera, a role to which he returns again this season at Pittsburgh Opera and at Utah Opera.

 

Recent highlights include Escamillo Carmen at Opera Colorado, English National Opera and Calgary Opera; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s St Matthew Passion and Fort Worth Symphony’s staged version of The Creation. A feature of past seasons includes his exceptionally reviewed performances as Crown in the new ENO/Metropolitan Opera production of Porgy and Bess at English National Opera; and he excelled in the title role Don Giovanni in the UK’s Dorset Opera Festival.

“Baritone Nmon Ford struck a charismatic presence as the American Consul, Sharpless. He was vocally a standout…” Janelle Gelfland, Cincinnati Business Courier, July 23, 2023

 

“Ford – last seen in the UK as Crown in the ENO production of Porgy and Bess – was a casting coup for Dorset’s artistic director, Roderick Kennedy. The audience was unable to take its eyes off this Don as he waltzed, pirouetted and jived his way through the role with supreme confidence, accompanied by his warm, ample, seductive baritone. This was a consummate performance that simply knocked spots off…” Martina Bet, The Express, 31 August 2021

 

“Of the major characters, only Nmon Ford as Bess’s violent lover Crown has the necessary vocal heft and stage presence, and his ability to cow the entire community during the storm scene arouses a genuine thrill of terror.”  Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph, 12 October 2018

“Calm and collected, Nmon Ford, as the Celebrant, made a sweet sound…”  Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 18 July 2018

 

“Baritone Nmon Ford was outstanding as Jochanaan. His opening lines were surprisingly powerful, sung as they were from under the stage in the cistern. But he sang with resonant dignity throughout. He was also much less stiff physically than most Jochanaans.” Mark Kanny, Trib-Live, November 6, 2016

BERLIOZ Samson et Dalila (Le grand prêtre)
BIZET Carmen (Escamillo)
Les pêcheurs de perles (Zurga)
BLOCH Macbeth (Macbeth)
CATÁN Florencia en el Amazonas (Riolobo)
GIORDANO Andrea Chénier (Carlo Gérard)
GRUENBERG The Emperor Jones (Brutus Jones)
LEONCAVALLO I pagliacci (Tonio)
MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana (Alfio)
MASSENET Hérodiade (Hérode)
MOZART Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni)
PUCCINI Tosca (Scarpia)
STRAUSS, R. Die Liebe der Danae (Jupiter)
Salome (Jochanaan)
VERDI Aïda (Amonasro)
Un ballo in maschera (Renato)
Don Carlo (Posa)
Ernani (Don Carlo)
Macbeth (Macbeth)
Nabucco (Nabucco)
Otello (Iago)
La traviata (Germont)
Il trovatore (di Luna)
Rigoletto (Rigoletto)
WAGNER Lohengrin (Telramund)
Parsifal (Amfortas, Klingsor)
Tristan und Isolde (Kurwenal)
ADAMS El Niño
BACH, J.S. Cantata no.205
St. Matthew Passion
BEETHOVEN Symphony 9
BERLIOZ L’enfance du Christ
BLOCH Sacred Service
BOLCOM Songs of Innocence and of Experience
BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem
BRITTEN War Requiem
DEBUSSY L’enfant prodigue
Trois ballades de François Villon
DELIUS Sea Drift
DE FALLA Sietes cançiones populares Españolas
ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius
ELLINGTON Sacred Songs
FAURÉ Requiem
HANDEL Judas Maccabeus
Messiah
Samson
HAYDN Creation
HIGDON Dooryard Bloom
LESHNOFF Zohar
MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Kindertotenlieder
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Rückertlieder
Symphony 8
MENDELSSOHN Elijah
MOZART Concert Aria, “Mentre ti lascio, o flglia”
Concert Aria, “Per pietà, non ricercate”
ORFF Carmina Burana
RACHMANINOV The Bells
RAVEL Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
THEOFANIDIS Creation/Creator
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Mystical Songs
Sea Symphony
Serenade to Music
VILLA-LOBOS Symphony 10, “Amerindia”
WALTON Belshazzar’s Feast

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