Wayne Arthur | Featured Artist
Baritone Wayne Arthur (He/They) is an artist with a heart-felt intelligence, dedicated to telling liberatory new stories and uncovering untold historical truths through voice, acting and movement. Wayne recently won the Third Place and Spirituals Prizes at the 2024 George Shirley Vocal Competition. Wayne is a performer and collaborator in Jonathan González’ Spectral Dances, which will be presented at the Academy of Arts and Letters in NYC in October 2024.
Over the last few seasons Wayne appeared as Baritone 1 in Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the Seattle Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Detroit Opera and Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Wayne appeared in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Fire Shut up in my Bones, which received the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Opera Record.
During the 2022-2023 season, Wayne was a member of the prestigious Opera Institute at Boston University where he demonstrated versatility in performances as Dr. Rappaccini in Daniel Catan’s La Hija de Rappaccini, John Brooke in Mark Adamo’s Little Women and Melisso in Handel’s Alcina at Boston University. In October of 2022 Wayne had the honor of being invited to cover the soloist, bass-baritone Davóne Tines, in MacArthur Grant recipient Tyshawn Sorey’s Monochromatic Light: Afterlife at the Park Avenue Armory, under the direction of the legendary Peter Sellars.
Learn more at waynearthur.me
Wayne appears on the following Resonance programs: