Ryan Dearon
BASS
Chicagoan bass-baritone Ryan Dearon is an active singing actor and has been praised for being “dramatically robust” (ClevelandClassical). On stage, he has been featured in a variety of operas, including: Handel’s Alcina (Melisso), Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro) and Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso), Puccini’s La Boheme (Benoît/Alcindoro), Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (Jim/The Undertaker) Poulenc’s Les mamelles des Tirésias (Le gendarme), as well as a new opera, Nkeiru Okoye’s Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom (Robert). In concert, he has performed with the Grant Park Festival Chorus and as a soloist with Northwestern’s Alice Millar Chapel Choir. Dearon also had noted engagements as a soloist in Haydn’s Creation and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with Oberlin ensembles. Dearon is an alum of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and Oberlin College & Conservatory.
