NathanBowles

This 2026-27 season, Nathan will return to LA Opera for his role debut as Ismaele, Nabucco and will make his Metropolitan Opera debut as First Armoured Man in The Magic Flute. He will also make his house and role debut as Elder Hayes in Susannah at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. On the concert scene, he will perform Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde alongside the Athens Symphony Orchestra.

A former Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist with LA Opera, Nathan made his house debut with Benvolio Roméo et Juliette and has since returned as Parpignol in La Bohème, Dr. Caius in Falstaff, First Armoured Man in Die Zauberflöte and the Bullfighter in Ainadamar. Bowles made his mainstage debut with The Dallas Opera as Benvolio and also appeared as Miguel in Offenbach’s Pépito and Dandini in The Billy Goats Gruff. He made his Tulsa Opera debut as Don José in The Tragedy of Carmen and his role and house debut with the Pacific Opera Project as Canio in Pagliacci. Other operatic credits include Don José in Carmen, John Styx in Orpheus in the Underworld, the Baker in Into the Woods, and Alfred in Die Fledermaus with Western Plains Opera. With Meadows Lyric Theatre at SMU, he appeared as Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia and Judge Danforth in The Crucible. In 2024, Nathan was a member of the Sante Fe Opera Apprentice Artist Programme.

Recent concert engagements include his role debut as Siegmund with the Taiwan Philharmonic in Die Walküre and Beethoven's Symphony No.9 with the Minot Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Palm Springs Opera Guild, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Minot State University Chorale in Hailstork’s I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes, and with Highland Park Methodist Church in Vaughan Williams’ Hodie in their Tower Arts Series.

Nathan won second prize at the 2026 Dallas Opera National Vocal Competition. A National Finalist in the 2024 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and a finalist in Operalia 2025, Nathan is also a recipient of the 2024 Richard F. Gold Career Grant.