Biography
Herbert Perry is an internationally acclaimed artist who has appeared in major
roles with leading opera companies throughout the world, including the Metropolitan
Opera title role in Le Nozze di Figaro, Leporello and Masetto in DonGiovanni, Colline in LaBohème and Angelotti in Tosca),
Lyric Opera of Chicago (Giorgio Walton in I Puritani), Houston Grand Opera,
The Washington Opera, New York City Opera (Escamillo in Carmen, Leporello),
the Santa Fe Opera, Vancouver Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Boston
Lyric Opera, Connecticut Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theatre
of Saint Louis, Opera Pacific, Orlando Opera, and Santa Fe Opera in the U.S.A.
In Canada, he has appeared with the Canadian Opera Company, Edmonton Opera and
Vancouver Opera. In Europe, he has appeared with Opera de Lyon, Opera de Nice,
Montpellier (Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress), Staatstheater Stuttgart,
Teatro Real (Madrid, Spain), Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Italy (Leporello)
and the Salzburg Festival (Tiresias in Oedipus Rex), to name a few.
On the concert stage, he has been heard with the Boston Symphony, the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Houston Symphony,
the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony, Kansas
City Symphony, Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Southwest Florida Symphony, Texas Chamber
Orchestra, and Tucson Symphony. Notable conductors with whom he has worked include
James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Christoph Eschenbach, Gunther Schüller, Sergiu Comissiona,
Michael Tilson Thomas, Christopher Hogwood, and Leonard Slatkin
He is also a frequent guest artist with many North American music festivals, including
the Tanglewood Festival, the Cincinnati May Festival, the Aspen Music Festival,
the Spoleto Festival USA, the Chautauqua Festival and the Minnesota Orchestra
Summerfest.
During the past three seasons, Mr. Perry has collaborated extensively with Philip
Glass and Robert Wilson as the officer in Philip Glass' In the Penal Colony
at the Classic Stage Company in New York City, as Vasco da Gama in Philip
Glass and Robert Wilson's opera, White Raven at the New York State Theater,
In the Penal Colony in Seattle and Chicago.
His performance with Teresa Stratas in Kurt Weill's SevenDeadly Sins
at the Opera de Lyon is available on compact disc and video from EMI.
Mr Perry made his national television debut as Balthazar in Menotti's AmahlandtheNightVisitors, which was directed
by the composer and telecast live during the 1984 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony.
