Omar Najmi

Grammy-nominated tenor Omar Najmi enjoys a dual career as a performer and composer. In the ‘24/’25 season Omar will debut with LA Opera as Simon in Adoration, the Spoleto Festival as Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, Seattle Symphony and Boston Baroque as the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah, and he will return to Boston Lyric Opera as Enoch Snow in Carousel. His recent performance credits include Darius Shah in the workshop of The Many
Deaths of Layla Starr at Minnesota Opera, Mr. Herz in Mozart in the Museum with Anchorage Opera, Valcour in The Anonymous Lover with Boston Lyric Opera, Enoch Snow in Carousel at First Coast Opera, and tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Tulsa Symphony. Najmi is a featured soloist on Danaë Xanthe Vlasse’s album Mythologies II, which is currently nominated
for Best Classical Compendium at the 2025 Grammy Awards. He can also be heard as the title character in Hamlet and as a soloist in Who is Sylvia?, both with Navona Records, and in Centaur Records’ Enterprises of Great Pitch. He recently released his solo debut album Transformations, featuring a selection of romantic to modern classical songs including his own original song cycle More Than Our Own Caves.

As a composer, Najmi is a current member of Washington National Opera’s ‘American Opera Initiative’, where his and Christine Evans’ opera Mud Girl will receive its premiere at the Kennedy Center in January. Recently, his work Pierrot was premiered by City Lyric Opera in NYC, and his The Comet at Yell’ham was premiered by the Ulysses Quartet. He has additionally
had works commissioned by Boston Lyric Opera, Atlanta Opera, White Snake Projects, Emmanuel Music, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Boston Opera Collaborative, Catalyst New Music and more.