Omar Najmi

Grammy-nominated tenor Omar Najmi enjoys a dual career as a performer and composer. In the 2024-2025 season Omar debuted 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 returned to Boston Lyric Opera as Enoch Snow in Carousel. His recent performance credits include Darius Shah in the workshop of The Many Deaths of Laila 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. Additional credits include the role of Demler in Frederick Douglass with Opera Odyssey, a return to Boston Lyric Opera as Malcolm in Macbeth, a chamber music concert with Grace Note Farm and a concert with Commonwealth Chorale. His new micro-opera The Elevator Trial will premiere in January as part of Boston Opera Collaborative’s annual performance of Opera Bites, and The Elevator Trial with Boston Opera Collaborative. 

In 2026, the busy singer joins hornist Radek Baborak to perform works by composer Joseph Summer at Carnegie Hall followed by a recording of the piece in Prague. Najmi joins the Tucson Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem, the Worcestershire Youth Symphony for Bruckner’s Te Deum, and Boston Baroque as Arbace in Idomeneo. He makes a role and company debut in Joseph Summer’s The Tempest with Teatro Grattacielo, and premieres The Many Deaths of Laila Starr at Minnesota Opera. Already a celebrated composer, his opera Mud Girl premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2025 as part of WNO’s American Opera Initiative. 

Najmi is a featured soloist on Danaë Xanthe Vlasse’s album Mythologies II, which was nominated for Best Classical Compendium at the 2025 Grammy Awards. He premieres the work in 2026 with the Arkansas Symphony. 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. 

In addition to his operatic performances, Najmi has appeared in concert as the tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with Greenwich Choral Society, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with Coro Allegro, Haydn’s Mariazellermesse with Masterworks Chorale, and Bach’s St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, and Christmas Oratorio with Emmanuel Music. Najmi made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2018 as the tenor soloist in Mark Hayes’ Gloria and has since returned as the soloist in Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living and as a soloist in Talents of the World Inc.’s Caruso Tribute Concert.