Jarrett Ott

American baritone Jarrett Ott, one of Opera News’ twenty-five “Rising Stars,” and called “a man who is seemingly incapable of an unmusical phrase,” is enjoying an international career. In the 2025-26 season, Ott will return to the Santa Fe Opera and Lyric Opera Kansas City as Sharpless in Madame Butterfly, Seattle Opera as Hawkins Fuller in Fellow Travelers, and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Opéra de Lille. In concert, he will make his Carnegie Hall recital debut with pianist Kunal Lahiry, a program they will also perform at the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris, Pascal Dusapin’s Antigone at the Philharmonie de Paris, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Eun Sun Kim and the Minnesota Orchestra, and Vaughan-Williams’ A Sea Symphony with the Seattle Symphony.

In opera, Jarrett Ott’s recent work has included Opéra national de Paris as Oreste in Iphigenie en Tauride and Colonel Álvaro Gómez in Calixto Bieito’s new production of The Exterminating Angel by Thomas Adès, Agrippa in John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra for his Metropolitan Opera debut, the title role in Rameau’s newly completed Samson with Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Opéra Comique, the Bayerische Staatsoper as Dandini in La Cenerentola, Opéra Comique in both Pascal Dusapin’s Macbeth Underworld, and Jan Nyman in Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves, the Gran Teatre del Liceu as Lescaut in Manon, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, conducted by Emmauelle Haïm, and performed W.P. Inman in the East Coast premiere of Cold Mountain as well as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Philadelphia, as well as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos, Maximilian in Candide and Masetto in Don Giovanni with The Santa Fe Opera.

He also sang Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Lyric Opera Kansas City and Dayton Opera, Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Teatro Regio di Torino and Pittsburgh Opera, Jupiter in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld with New Orleans Opera, Curly in Oklahoma! with Glimmerglass Festival, Zurga in The Pearl Fishers with North Carolina Opera. A former member of the Staatstheater Stuttgart Ensemble, he has performed Conte, Marcello in La bohème, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dandini, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Faust in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride and Chou En-lai in Nixon in China.

In concert, Jarrett Ott has performed the title role in David Lang’s world-premiere prisoner of the state with Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic, later with Malmö Opera and Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Stephano in Sibelius’ The Tempest with Susanna Mälkki, and Weimar Nightfall: The Seven Deadly Sins, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, both at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has performed Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Seattle Symphony and Colorado Springs Philharmonic, the Grand Teatro del Liceu as Riff in West Side Story, Raphaël Pichon at the Paris Philharmonie for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, as well as this same work with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées on tour in Europe, and a tour of Mozart’s Requiem with Philippe Herreweghe and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed Brahms’ Requiem with the Columbus Symphony, joined colleagues for the inaugural Sag Harbor Song Festival on Long Island, and with New York Choral Society, has appeared as soloist in Stanford’s Songs of the Fleet, Handel’s Israel in Egypt, both at Carnegie Hall.

Jarrett Ott has performed the world premiere of The Hyland Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and with Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, pieces by Vito Zuraj and Bach, conducted by Matthias Pintscher. He joined the Colorado Symphony and Oregon Bach Festival for Vaughan-Williams’ A Sea Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra for Ralph Vaughan-Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, the US Naval Academy in Annapolis for Messiah and Symphoria in Syracuse, NY for an evening of opera favorites.

Ott has toured with Teodor Currentzis and MusicAeterna as Don Pedro de Alvorado in concerts of Purcell’s Indian Queen, with stops in Geneva, Köln, Bremen, and Dortmund, and later in a run of shows at the Salzburg Festival, was a featured soloist with Emmauelle Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée for a gala event at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, which was later released on Warner Classics/Erato, and Maximilian in Candide with the Hamburg Symphoniker at the Lausitz Festival.

A native of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, Jarrett Ott is based in New York and received his master’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music.

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