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Canadian tenor Josh Lovell is in his final year as a member of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He is the 2018 Grand and Opera Prize winner at the 52nd Annual International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch, in The Netherlands, the 2nd place winner of the 2018 Dallas Opera competition, and was a 2017 semi-finalist with the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
In the 2018/19 season, Josh Lovell will continue his tenure with The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, performing Odoardo in Ariodante, Le Doyen de la Faculté in Cendrillon, and a Trojan in Idomeneo. He will cover the roles of Arbace in Idomeneo, the Young Servant in Elektra, and Lurcanio in Ariodante. On the Chicago concert stage, Josh Lovell will debut with Music of the Baroque, performing Bach’s Coffee Cantata, conducted by Jane Glover, as well as Handel’s Messiah with The International Music Foundation and Apollo Chorus. He will also debut the Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Victoria Philharmonic in Canada, and sing select Bach cantatas as well as the Magnificat with Baroque ensemble I Musici de Montréal.
As part of the 2017/18 season at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Josh Lovell made his main stage debut as The Emperor Altoum in Turandot. Other assignments included covers of the title role in Orphée et Eurydice, as well as Bruno and Arturo in I Puritani. He sang opposite Susan Graham and Nathan Gunn as part of the Jazz Trio in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, in the “Celebrating 100 Years of Bernstein” concert at Lyric Opera of Chicago. With Lyric Unlimited, Mr. Lovell covered the role of Timothy Laughlin in Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers. In the summer of 2018, Josh Lovell debuted Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Aspen Music Festival and School and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with the New Generation Festival, performed in the Gardens of the Palazzo Corsini al Prato in Florence, Italy. He was also a participant in the The Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme in the UK.
Past operatic work includes Ferrando in Così fan tutte as part of the Ryan Opera Center as well as at the University of Michigan, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, also at the University of Michigan, and Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor and Bardolfo in Falstaff with Pacific Opera Victoria. As an artist with the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, Josh Lovell performed scenes from The Rake’s Progress and Le Comte Ory. While at the University of Michigan, he also portrayed Bao Yu in workshop performances of Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber, a new work commissioned by San Francisco Opera.
An avid concert performer, Josh Lovell has performed Messiah with The Victoria Symphony in British Columbia as well as with the Toledo Symphony. Other orchestral work includes Mozart’s Requiem with the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra, Bach’s Mass in b minor with The Handel Society, Handel’s Jephtha with the Oakland Choral Society and Bach’s St. John’s Passion with the Victoria Baroque Players.
Additional professional and academic awards and honors include a Vancouver Opera Guild grant, 3rd place in the Marcello Giordani Foundation International Vocal Competition, the Johann Strauss Foundation scholarship, which allowed for a period of study at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and a winner of the Cooper-Bing International Opera Competition with Opera Columbus.
A Victoria, British Columbia native, Josh Lovell is a 2017 graduate of the University of Michigan, where he studied with Stanford Olsen. Previously, he was a student of Benjamin Butterfield at the University of Victoria, and currently studies with Julia Faulkner. Upon finishing his time with the Ryan Opera Center, Mr. Lovell will join the Ensemble of Vienna Staatsoper in Vienna, Austria.