Jake Ingbar

In the 2023-24 season, American countertenor Jake Ingbar returns to the Dutch National Opera to perform the role of Narciso in director Barrie Kosky’s production of Handel’s Agrippina with Ottavio Dantone on the podium. He also joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera to cover Countertenor 2 in the contemporary opera-oratorio El Niño by John Adams with Marin Alsop conducting and Lileana Blain-Cruz directing. Additional highlights of the season include being a featured soloist in a two-part work set to a suite of exquisite operatic arias by Handel and his choral work Dixit Dominus with Doug Varone & Dancers, New York Baroque Incorporated, and MasterVoices with Music Director Ted Sperling in New York City; singing 4 Songs from Dark Spring, composed by Hans Thomalla, with Ensemble Ascolta at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in a concert honoring the composer; performing music of Giulio Caccini for the world-premiere of Tu me manques choreographed by Kirsten Wicklund for the Dutch National Ballet. Next season, he debuts at Nederlandse Reisopera as Ottone in Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea with Cappella Mediterranea led by Mónica Pustilnik and Semperoper Dresden as the Witch of Endor in Handel’s Saul with conductor Leo Hussain and director Claus Guth.  

Last season Mr. Ingbar made two major house debuts: San Francisco Opera where he performed the role of Leonardo in El último sueño de Frida y Diego, by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz, conducted by Roberto Kalb and Dutch National Opera where he sang Nireno and covered Tolomeo in Handel's Giulio Cesare led by Emmanuelle Haïm. In the summer of 2022, he joined the prestigious Académie du Festival Aix-en-Provence where he performed in Pergolesi’s Li prodigi della divina grazia nella conversione e morte di san Guglielmo duca d’Aquitania with Les Talens Lyriques led by Christophe Rousset. Mr. Ingbar also has the distinction of making his Het Concertgebouw debut in Amsterdam singing music of Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten with pianist Eytan Pessen.

In previous seasons, Mr. Ingbar performed with Los Angeles Opera to portray Mercury in Landi's La morte d'Orfeo, Colin in Bologne's L'Amant Anonyme, and Angel in Carla Lucero’s Las tres mujeres de Jerusalén, as well as the digital short, Las cinco lunas de Lorca, produced as a stunning tribute to Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz. He also sang Bach’s Magnificat with the Capella Regia Polona in Warsaw. During 2020, Mr. Ingbar was slated to debut at the Glimmerglass Festival as Il mago cristiano in Handel’s Rinaldo and with the NDR Radiophilharmonie as Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare in Hanover, Germany, before the pandemic forced their cancellation.

Mr. Ingbar has performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, Minnesota Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Guthrie Theatre, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Polish National Opera, with leading conductors as James Conlon, Stephen Stubbs, Gary Wedow, David Stern, and Petr Kotik. In 2022, he was a recipient of the Richard Gold Career Grant and was a winner of the Kennedy Center’s Young Soloists Competition. Previous scholarships were received from the George London Foundation and the Gerda Lissner Foundation. Mr. Ingbar made his professional debut at age ten as a soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and has performed throughout North America and Europe ever since. He can be heard as the alto soloist in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms on the album Psalms and Songs featuring the Exultate Choir and Orchestra. Mr. Ingbar also created the role of Karl in the Guthrie Theater presentation of The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman and based on the novel by Louise Erdrich, under the direction of Francesca Zambello.

A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mr. Ingbar is an alumnus of the Juilliard School, Rice University, the Britten-Pears Young Artist Program, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ Gerdine Young Artist Program, the Glimmerglass Opera Young Artist Program, and the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program at the Los Angeles Opera.

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