With his mellifluous "honey-voice," Tenor Jonathan Pierce Rhodes has emerged as an exciting young presence in the world of opera, drawing attention and admiration from audiences and critics alike. In the current season, Mr. Rhodes makes his role debut as Timothy Laughlin in Fellow Travelers by Gregory Spears with Opera Parallele. Shortly after, he makes his highly anticipated house debut with The Lyric Opera Chicago, where he is set to reprise his role as Policeman 2, as well as cover The Son, in Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s critically acclaimed opera, Blue. Additional appearances this season include concerts with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Apollo’s Fire, as well as his Carnegie Hall debut with the Oratorio Society of New York, where he will appear as the soloist in the world premiere of Moravec’s All Shall Rise and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang.

Mr. Rhodes is a recent graduate of the Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artist program. During his residency there, he frequented several roles including Pong in a brand-new production of Turandot directed by Francesca Zambello. Additional roles at Washington National Opera include The Hippo in The Lion, The Unicorn and Me, A Priest/Piquillo cover* in Songbird, and Frank in The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, a character he first brought to life at The Glimmerglass Festival in 2019.

Mr. Rhodes has been honored to spend the past three summers as a young artist at The Glimmerglass Festival. In his final season there, he covered the title role in Leonard Bernstein's Candide and portrayed Cacambo, receiving praise as a "big-voiced standout" by the Wall Street Journal. Previous years have seen him as the Man in Armor and Priest #1 in The Magic Flute and Cherubiel in the world premiere of Holy Ground.

In 2022, the Houston District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition recognized Mr. Rhodes as an encouragement award winner. In 2019, he received the 1st place Neva Pilgrim Award in the Civic Morning Musicals Competition and had the distinction of being named a recipient of Eastman’s William Warfield Scholarship Award. Rhodes holds both a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from The Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester. In addition, he recently graduated from Rice University, where he received his Masters in Opera Performance.