Lauded by Opera News for his “inky bass-baritone and clear projection ideally suited to the role, capturing this isolated man’s passion with telling grief,” in the 2024/25 season Alfred Walker returns the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Don Fernando in Fidelio, the Metropolitan Opera for further performances of Enobarbus in Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra, joins New Orleans Opera for the High Priest of Dagon in Samson et Dalila, returns to the title role in Der fliegende Holländer in his house debut with Irish National Opera, and sings Porgy in the suite from Porgy and Bess with the Cologne Philharmonie. Last season, he sang Enobarbus the European premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra with Gran Teatre del Liceu, Orest in Elektra with Dallas Opera, returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Frere Laurant in Roméo et Juiliette and Rambaldo in La rondine. Mr. Walker recently joined San Francisco Opera as Enobarbus in the world premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Vater in Hansel und Gretel, the Metropolitan Opera as Masetto in Don Giovanni, Detroit Opera for Amonasro in Aida, and returned to Bard Summerscape for the title role in Saint-Saëns’ Henry VIII. He also sang Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with the LA Philharmonic under Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, and joined the Boston Philharmonic for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
A graduate of Dillard University, Loyola University, and the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program, the New Orleans native is the recipient of awards from the George London Foundation, Palm Beach Opera Competition, Houston Opera Studio’s Eleanor McCollum Competition, and the Sullivan Foundation career grant.