(Los Angeles) December 11, 2024 — On Sunday, January 19, 2025, LA Opera and The Wallis will present the second of three recitals in their season-long collaboration: bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, one of the major voices of our time, in an intimate performance with pianist Adam Nielsen.

The fast-rising bass-baritone already has three Grammy Awards to his name, and now Ryan Speedo Green has begun his conquest of the world's leading opera houses. Fresh from his triumphant star turns in the Metropolitan Opera's acclaimed productions of Champion and Fire Shut Up In My Bones and in the LA Philharmonic's Das Rheingold earlier this year, this magnetic performer makes his first LA Opera appearance in a spellbinding recital featuring songs by Wolf, Mussorgsky, Schubert, Mahler and more.

Performance and Ticket Info
The recital will be presented at 2pm on Sunday, January 19, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (The Wallis), located at 9390 N. Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Tickets are on sale now. Tickets can be purchased online at LAOpera.org, by phone at 213.972.8001, or at TheWallis.org. For disability access, call 213.972.0777 or email LAOpera@LAOpera.org.

More information about this recital is available at LAOpera.org/Green.

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About Ryan Speedo Green
Named “the real showstopper” by the New York Times, three-time Grammy Award-winning bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green has already established himself as an artist of international demand at the world’s leading opera houses and orchestras. The 2024/25 season sees his return to the Metropolitan Opera for a role debut as Queequeg in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick, marking the house premiere of the opera. Now in his thirteenth season at the Met, he began his season there as Fernando in Il Trovatore and is currently appearing there as the Spirit Messenger in Die Frau ohne Schatten. In the summer of 2025, he will make role debuts as Klingsor in Parsifal at the Glyndebourne Festival and as Wotan in Die Walküre with Santa Fe Opera.

Orchestral appearances for the season include a return to Orchestre Metropolitain Montreal for Bruckner’s Te Deum with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Mahler's Symphony Number 8 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons. Recital appearances include his much anticipated debut at Carnegie Hall as well as with Colorado Opera and True Concord in Tucson, Arizona. He also returns to his role as Artist in Residence with Florida State University for a series of master classes and an orchestral concert.

About Adam Nielsen
Pianist Adam Nielsen enjoys a diverse career as a soloist, collaborator, répétiteur and coach. His performances have been praised as “deftly and sensitively played” (New York Times), “an emotional account of the score” (Musical America) and “tapping into the emotional core of his audience” (Times Picayune, New Orleans). In 2018, he joined the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera, where he serves as répétiteur and assistant conductor. His current Met projects include Die Frau ohne Schatten, after recent productions including Florencia en el Amazonas and The Flying Dutchman. He was also a head coach for the Académie d'Festival Aix-en-Provence, where he was recently appointed as head coach.

In recent seasons, he has collaborated in performances with bass-baritone Davóne Tines, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford and baritone Steven LaBrie, all singers with whom he has cultivated treasured performing relationships throughout the span of his career. His playing can be heard in The Upside (STX/Lantern Entertainment), The Chaperone (PBS), The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson), The Staircase (Netflix), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) and The Unforgiveable (Netflix),

About LA Opera
Los Angeles is a city of enormous diversity and creativity, and LA Opera is dedicated to reflecting that vibrancy by redefining what opera can be. Under the leadership of Christopher Koelsch (Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco President and CEO) and James Conlon (Richard Seaver Music Director), LA Opera has become one of America’s most exciting and ambitious opera companies through imaginative new productions, world premiere commissions, and inventive performances that preserve foundational works while making them feel fresh and compelling. Learn more at LAOpera.org.

About The Wallis
Since its doors opened in 2013, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is a dynamic cultural hub and community resource where local, national and international performers share their artistry with ever-expanding audiences. Distinguished by eclectic programming that mirrors the diverse landscape of Los Angeles and its location in the entertainment capital of the world, The Wallis has produced and presented nearly than 500 theater, dance, music, film, cabaret, comedy, performance arts, and family entertainment programs. Learn more at TheWallis.org.

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