Jan Opalach has been a principal artist with New York City Opera for over 25 years, singing leading rôles in Falstaff, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Il barbiere di Siviglia among many others. He has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, Washington Opera, Atlanta Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theater of St Louis, Canadian, English National, and Netherlands Opera. He has recorded for Nonesuch, Argo, Bridge, CRI, Decca, Delos, EMI, L’Oiseau-Lyre, and Telarc. A winner of the W.M. Naumburg Vocal Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions and recipient of a recital grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, he is currently on the voice faculty of the Eastman School of Music.