SolomanHoward
- Bass


About Soloman
Winner of the 2021 Washington Performing Arts’ Ambassador of the Arts Award and the Kennedy Center’s 2019 Marian Anderson Vocal Award, Soloman Howard garners high praise from the press for his vivid performances on the great opera and concert stages of the world. Soloman Howard’s voice is described as “sonorous” by The New York Times, “superhuman” by The Denver Post, and “a triumph” by The Guardian.
This season, Soloman returns to the Royal Opera House to sing Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, as well as Fafner in Barrie Kosky's new production of Siegfried, a role he will later sing on a European tour with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Soloman also returns to the Metropolitan Opera to sing the Commendatore in Don Giovanni, makes his Dresden Semperoper debut singing Ramfis in Aida, performs the role of Hunding in concert versions of Die Walküre with the LA Phil, and sings as a soloist for Beethoven 9th Symphony at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest.
Contact
For availability and general enquiries:

Dominic Domingo

Joel Thomas

Mathieu Levan
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
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Selected Repertoire
Beethoven
Fidelio (Don Fernando) • Symphony 9 (Bass)
Glass
Appomattox (Frederick Douglass)
Gounod
Roméo et Juliette (Le Duc)
Händel
Semele (Cadmus)
Huang
An American Soldier (Manny Davis)
Kern
Show Boat (Joe)
Mozart
Don Giovanni (Il Commendatore) • Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro)
Puccini
La Bohème (Colline) • Madama Butterfly (Lo zio Bonzo) • Tosca (Cesare Angelotti) • Turandot (Timur)
Sparr
Approaching Ali (Muhammad Ali)
Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin (Knyaz Gremin)
Tesori
The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me (The Lion)
Verdi
Aida (Il Re d'Egitto and Ramfis) • Don Carlo (Un Frate) • I masnadieri (Moser) • La forza del destino (Il Marchese di Calatrava) • La traviata ( Il dottor Grenvil) • Luisa Miller (Wurm) • Macbeth (Banco) • Rigoletto (Sparafucile)
Wagner
Siegfried (Fafner) • Das Rheingold (Fafner) • Die Walküre (Hunding)
News
Press
Verdi Aida
The Royal Opera HouseSep 2022“Another exciting house debut comes from the American bass Soloman Howard as the High Priest Ramfis, transformed here into a high-ranking army officer. He has a huge stage presence, with a vast voice to match; commanding, effortless, astonishing, even terrifying.”
- Bachtrack, Stephan Pritchard
- 26 November 2022
Verdi Don Carlo
Lyric Opera of ChicagoNov 2022“Solomon Howard is authoritative as the Grand Inquisitor, and appropriately frightening as well.”
- Hyde Park Herald, M.L. Rantala
- 17 November 2022
Mozart Don Giovanni
San Francisco OperaJun 2022“Only the Commendatore, the singular voice of bass Soloman Howard, stepped out of the frame and was able to deliver the moral, which he did with consummate power.”
- Operawire, Lois Silverstein
- 24 November 2022