Colorado bass Griffen Hogan Tracy has been praised for his “glorious outpouring of tone” (Parterre Box).  This season, he sang the Police Sergeant in Pirates of Penzance with Knoxville Opera, and sings Dr. Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro with North Carolina Opera. Recent roles include Big Money in the world premiere of Our Sacred World with GSU Perimeter College, and his house and role debuts with Amarillo Opera as Sparafucile in Rigoletto and as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Cincinnati Opera.

 

In summer festivals, Mr. Tracy recently joined the Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Artist, where he covered the role of Manuel Toulon/Judge in Huang Ro’s new opera M. Butterfly and was featured in the Apprentice Scenes program as Phillipe II in Don Carlos. With Opera Theatre of St. Louis, he sang 3rd Familiari in The Coronation of Poppea and covered Seneca inThe Coronation of Poppea and Sparafucile in Rigoletto, and with Central City Opera, he has sung Un Vecchio Zingaro in Il trovatore and scenes as the title role of Don Pasquale, The Pirate King inThe Pirates of Penzance, and Dansker in Billy Budd.

Other roles include Neptune in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Reverend John Hale inThe Crucible, Leporello in Don Giovanni with the Yakima Symphony, Emile de Becque in South Pacific, Sir John Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Dr. Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro. 

 

Mr. Tracy holds an Artist Diploma from the Academy of Vocal Arts (2022), where he performed the roles of Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin, Colline in La bohème, and Antonio in Le nozze di Figaro. During his time with the Academy of Vocal Arts, Griffen was featured in a wide variety of recitals, performing repertoire by Shostakovich, Berg, Rachmaninoff, Haydn, and Handel, and most recently gave a recital of Ullmann’s Liederbuch des Hafis in 2021. Mr. Tracy sang as the bass soloist with the Bucks County Symphony in Beethoven’s Mass in C, made his Knoxville Symphony debut in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and sang with the Colorado Repertory Singers in Mozart’s Requiem.

 

He won a District prize in the Georgia district of the Laffont Competition, an Encouragement Award in the Rocky Mountain Region of the Laffont Competition, received a Career Grant from the Pikes Peak Opera League, and won second place in the Denver Lyric Opera Competition grand finals.  Mr. Tracy holds Master of Music from University of Tennessee Opera Theatre, where he sang the title role in Le nozze di Figaro and Eduard Casaubon in Allan Sheerer’s Middlemarch in Spring, a performance praised for its “insidious maliciousness” (Arts Knoxville). He earned his Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver.