American baritone Troy Cook has performed in many of the world’s great opera houses, including The Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, La Monnaie (Brussels) and Opera Bilbao. Mr. Cook begins the 2026-2027 season with Austin Opera, reprising the role of Athanaël in Massenet’s Thaïs for his third set of performances in recent seasons. With the Sarasota Orchestra, he reunites with conductor Giancarlo Guerrero for Orff’s epic Carmina Burana, and later in the season, travels to the Metropolitan Opera to cover the role he originated, Father Palmer, in the company premiere of Silent Night.
2025-2026 season engagements included Marcello in La bohème with Austin Opera, Handel’s Messiah with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Manfred Honeck; Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Oregon Symphony; and a return to The Metropolitan Opera, covering Gerhard in the company’s season-opening premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. The summer saw his return to the Glimmerglass Festival as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly and Andrew Carnes in Oklahoma!
The 2024-2025 season began at Opera Philadelphia, as Paul Devon in the North American premiere of The Listeners, followed by Virginia Opera’s world premiere, Loving v. Virginia, as ACLU attorney Bernard Cohen. Additional engagements included Athanaël with Spoleto Festival USA, Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance for Knoxville Opera, and Giorgio Germont in the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s performances of La traviata. In concert, he joined the Grant Park Music Festival, for Orff’s Carmina Burana with conductor Giancarlo Guerrero.
Troy Cook created the role of Father Palmer in the world premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell with Minnesota Opera, singing further performances of the role with Utah Opera, Austin Opera and Atlanta Opera amongst others. He also originated the role of John Cree in Puts and Campbell’s Elizabeth Cree with Opera Philadelphia.
Other recent operatic engagements include Athanaël with Utah Opera; Major-General Stanley with Glimmerglass and Kentucky Opera; Mark Torrance in The Shining with Opera Colorado; Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Washington National Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Portland Opera and Central City Opera; Rodrigo in Don Carlo with Washington National Opera and Opera Philadelphia; Valentin in Faust at the Macau Festival, and Ford in Falstaff with San Diego Opera.
Previous career highlights include Ford in Falstaff with Staatsoper Hamburg; Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Santa Fe Opera; Morales in Carmen and Schaunard in La bohème with The Metropolitan Opera; Marcello in La bohème with Spoleto Festival USA, Florida Grand Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Semperoper Dresden, and Opera Philadelphia; Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Germont in La traviata with Florida Grand Opera and Central City Opera; Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Opera Philadelphia; Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Austin Opera, San Francisco Opera and Fort Worth Opera; Mr. Flint in Billy Budd with San Francisco Opera; and Giacomo in Beatrix Cenci with Grand Théâtre de Genève.
