Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will present an online program on “Creative Entrepreneurship and a Path Forward for Opera” in collaboration with Triangle Wagner Society.
Sunday, February 28, 2027, 2:00 PM, on Zoom.
Please email to RSVP: info@bostonwagnersociety.org
Anthony Roth Costanzo, Durham, NC native and a leading countertenor and opera company general director/president, has written a new book, Countertenor. Both the book, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and an accompanying CD will be available on October 27, 2026. You can preorder now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Bookshop, Powell’s City of Books, or Target.
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. He is the General Director and President of Opera Philadelphia and the Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio.
He has performed with many of the world’s leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Opera National de Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, English National Opera, Liceu Barcelona, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Dallas Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, Glimmerglass Festival (where he served as Artist in Residence), and Finnish National Opera.
He stars in the Metropolitan Opera’s recording and DVD of Akhnaten which won him a GRAMMY Award, and his solo album ARC was nominated for a GRAMMY, as was his recording of the title role in John Corigliano’s Lord of Cries. Costanzo collaborated with cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond on the album Only an Octave Apart, and in the fall of 2026 his first book, Countertenor will be released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux along with a companion solo album, released by Nonesuch.
Costanzo works as a producer and curator in addition to his singing, creating shows for The Paris Opera, The BBC Proms, The New York Philharmonic, St. Ann’s Warehouse, National Sawdust, the Philharmonia Baroque, The Barnes Foundation, St. John The Divine, Princeton University, WQXR, The State Theater in Salzburg, Master Voices, and Kabuki-Za Tokyo. He created and produced the New York Philharmonic’s Bandwagon initiative, the orchestra’s innovative response to the pandemic. It began with 81 impromptu concerts in all five boroughs of New York City and evolved into a series of festivals created with partner organizations throughout the city.
Mr. Costanzo graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University where he was awarded the Lewis Sudler Prize for extraordinary achievement in the arts and where he has returned to teach. He received his masters and an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music, where he now serves on the board of Trustees as well as on the board of the National Black Theater. He has been a fellow at Oxford and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.