Performances & Engagements
Upcoming Performances
May 11, 2024 - Credo (Margaret Bonds) in Visions of Hope, Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Greenfield, Massachusetts
Previous Engagements
February 3, 4, 10, and 11, 2024 - Betto in Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) and Bruschino Sr. in Il Signor Bruschino (Rossini), Bronx Opera, Bronx, New York
May 4, 6, and 7, 2023 - Abdul/Abe in Omar (Rhiannon Giddens), Boston Lyric Opera, Boston, Massachusetts
March 10, 2023 - Opera Innovators Master Class with Anne Bogart, co-founder of SITI Company and professor of theater at Columbia University. Boston Lyric Opera, Boston, Massachusetts.
October 14, 16, 21 & 23, 2022 - Marco in Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) and Counsel in Trial by Jury (Gilbert & Sullivan). Salt Marsh Opera, Stonington, Connecticut.
August 11 & 13, 2022 - Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Charles Gounod), Boston Lyric Opera, Boston, Massachusetts
May 27, 2022 - Raj in This Is Not That Dawn (Omar Najmi), New Camerata Music. The Center for Arts at the Armory, Somerville, Massachusetts.
May 18, 20 & 22, 2022 - Champion (Terence Blanchard), Boston Lyric Opera, Boston, Massachusetts
April 27, 2022 - Opera Night at Boston Public Library presents Terrence Blanchard: Opera Composer in Jazz. Boston Lyric Opera, Boston, Massachusetts. Additional lecture by Reverend Dr. Emmett G Price III, Dean of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music.
June 26, 2021 - Street Stage Performance (mobile opera), Boston Lyric Opera, Boston, Massachusetts
May 6, 2021 - Opera Night at the Boston Public Library presents Opera and Jazz, Boston Lyric Opera, virtual. Lecture by Dr. Tammy Kernodle, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Music at Miami University (Ohio).
April 29, 2021 - The Tonic Hour community engagement, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston, Massachusetts
April 8, 2021 - Opera Night at the Boston Public Library presents Blackness and Identity in Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, virtual. Lecture by Dr. Naomi André, David G. Frey Distinguished Professor in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
September 27–October 6, 2019 - Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), Boston Lyric Opera, Boston, Massachusetts
June 14–19, 2019 - Crossing the Line to Freedom: A Musical Narrative (selections composed by Nkeiru Okoye, Adolphus Hailstork, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and Undine Smith Moore), Boston Lyric Opera, Boston, Massachusetts
October 3–7, 2018 - The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o'clock (composed by David Lang) by David Lang and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York, New York
July 21, 2018 - Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart), North Shore Music Festival, Long Island, New York
September 16, 17, 23, & 24, 2017 - Ensemble in Galileo (Bertolt Brecht, translated by Yuval Sharon) by The Industry, San Pedro, California
July 7 & 9, 2017 - Marco in Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), Prelude to Performance presented by the Martina Arroyo Foundation, New York, New York
April 2017 - William in Little Bear world premier (Marc Lowenstein), REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, California
“A special thank you and ‘Bravo!’ for the performance… of ‘Crossing the Line to Freedom.’ I was so impressed and awed by the singers voices and mastery and acting chops. What a gift to the city.”
Attendee at Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of “Crossing the Line to Freedom”
“Nick LaGesse was wonderful eye and ear candy as the real love of the Widow, the philandering Sheriff [Count Danilo].”
Charles Karel Bouley, Huffington Post
We want to give gratitude to opera singer Nick LaGesse from hopscotchopera.com for coming by KSA this morning to speak to every grade level during our Family Time. Our students learned a little about opera and left inspired to follow their dreams no matter what! #music #gratitude #love —KIPP Scholar Academy
“Nicholas LaGesse as Sheriff Danny Loewe [Count Danilo], is a very attractive
and charismatic actor who knows how to flirt with the audience. His lovely baritone
makes him a complete star package.”
Georja Umano, LA Splash Magazine
Opera on Location
A high-tech work of Wagnerian scale is being staged across Los Angeles.
Alex Ross, The New Yorker
‘Hopscotch’ Takes Opera Into the Streets
Yuval Sharon's ambitious new production is a “mobile opera in 24 cars” winding their way in and around downtown Los Angeles.
William Robin, The New York Times
“[Zerbinetta's] Four Merry men...were funny and charming, fully committed to the slapstick, with antics ranging from swimming makeshift 'seas' made by coordinated slats of wood to wooing nymphs with ukelele serenades.... Baritone Nicholas LaGesse stood out for his voice’s natural, honeyed tone and his winning character.”
Lauri D. Goldenhersh, Singerpreneur