Jason’s Bio
Jason Adamo is a bass-baritone who has performed a wide variety of repertoire by composers from Mozart to Puccini. A specialist in Italian opera, he has performed frequently with Eastern Opera of New Jersey and with the Baroque Opera of New Jersey (conducted by Dr. Robert Butts), having sung Marcello in La Bohème, Silvio in I Pagliacci, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, Bonze and Yamadori in Madama Butterfly, Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore, the Speaker, First Priest and Second Armored Man in The Magic Flute, and the title roles of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, and in 2018 he sang in the world premiere of Dr. Butts’ new opera, Auld Lang Syne. In New York City, Jason has sung Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algeri and the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro with New York Opera Forum as well as Marcello in La Bohème with Amore Opera. Other roles include Father in Hansel and Gretel, the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro, Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algeri, and Schaunard in La Bohème.
Jason’s standout roles include Dr. Falke in Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, which he has performed with both Eastern Opera of New Jersey as well as the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, and Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro which he performed with the Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute in San Francisco, under the baton of Matthias Kuntsch, and again with Maestro Robert Butts and the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey. Arts critic Art Ritchie of mycentraljersey.com has written: “Jason Adamo is a simply wonderful Falke” and Sheila Abrams of njartsmaven.com has this praise for Jason’s Figaro: “Adamo projects an effortless sound, his voice embracing some of opera’s most familiar arias as if they are natural speech. And his articulation (in the original Italian) is superb.”
Before establishing an operatic career, Jason was a prolific interpreter of roles in plays, classic musical theatre and operetta, having performed in As You Like It and Hamlet with Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Evita (as Juan Perón) and Cyrano with the Actors’ Company of Pennsylvania at the Fulton Opera House, the Off-Broadway musical A Stoop on Orchard Street, South Pacific with the Princeton Opera Association, Brigadoon at Bristol Riverside Theatre, as well as essaying the Gilbert and Sullivan roles of Sir Despard Murgatroyd in Ruddigore and the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance, in addition to appearing in many other plays and musicals. Jason’s origins as an actor and musical theatre singer continue to inform his dramatic characterizations in operatic repertoire.
Born in the city of Trenton, New Jersey and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Jason has been an active performer on stages from Philadelphia to New York City since 1994. He has previously lived in both of those great cities and now resides in New Jersey and maintains ties to the flourishing music community there.
