Anthony Roth Costanzo

Grammy Award winner Anthony Roth Costanzo has appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway.

Recently, he returned to the Metropolitan Opera in his acclaimed performance of the title role in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten, and will star in the title role of Orfeo next season. He co-created, produced, and starred in a live show based on his album, Only an Octave Apart with cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond; it will travel to the Spoleto Festival this year after receiving numerous “Best of 2021” accolades for its New York premiere, and garnering five-star reviews for its month-long run in London in fall 2022. Last season he was the New York Philharmonic’s Artist-in-Residence, performing and curating programming to reflect on questions of identity. Over the pandemic, he partnered with the Philharmonic to create and produce NY Phil Bandwagon, an initiative that brought over a hundred concerts to all five boroughs. This fall, he took London’s BBC Proms into a nightclub for the first time with his film/fashion/dance/opera extravaganza Glass Handel.

Anthony has performed and produced around the world at venues including Carnegie Hall, Versailles, Madison Square Garden, Philadelphia Opera, The Berlin Philharmonic, The Kennedy Center, The London Symphony Orchestra, Kabuki-Za Tokyo, San Francisco Opera, The Guggenheim, Chicago Lyric Opera, The Park Avenue Armory, Teatro Real Madrid, Canadian Opera Company, The Elbphilharmonie, the English National Opera and many others. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in a Merchant Ivory film and graduated with honors from Princeton University, where he has returned to teach, and Manhattan School of Music, where he is on the board of trustees and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2022. Also in 2022, Costanzo was honored by the New York Historical Society with its distinguished History Makers Award and received a fellowship from Oxford University.

Photo by Matthew Placek.