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The American bass-baritone, Cody Quattlebaum, is a native of Ellicott City, Maryland, where he was offered boundless encouragement to pursue the arts by a dedicated team of public educators in the Howard County school system. He obtained his Bachelor of Music degrfee in Voive and Oprra from the the University of Cincinnati - College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with with Kenneth Shaw (2011-2015); and his Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School of Music in New York under the tutelage of Marlena Malas (2015-2017). He was a finalist in the 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council competition (2017) and the recipient of a Sara Tucker grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation (2017), as well as a Novick Career Advancement grant. He has also received awards from the George London foundation, Connecticut Alliance of Music, Gerda Lissner Foundation (2016), Opera Index, and James Toland Vocal Arts (2016).
Commended by Opera News as “…a powerhouse, commanding of presence, virile of sound, and articulate even in the swiftest exchanges”, Cody Quattlebaum is earning a reputation as a unique and captivating interpreter of opera, song, and oratorio. In the recent seasons, he performed the title role of Grigory Stepanovich Smirnov in William Walton's The Bear at the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco (June-August 2017), and Claudio in Agrippina at The Juilliard School (2017). Other notable operatic performances include Guglielmo in W.A. Mozart's Cosí fan tutte during his first year with the Merola Program (June-August 2016), the Colonel in a premiere workshop of Daniel Catán’s Meet John Doe with Cincinnati Opera as a part of the Opera Fusion initiative (2015), and Figaro in in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at College Conservatory of Music (2013).
Cody Quattlebaum made his debut at Opernhaus Zürich in September 2017 as Schriftsteller, the antagonist in the world premiere of Der Traum von Dir, and later appeared as Larkens in Barrie Kosky's celebrated production of La Fanciulla del West (2017). He returned to close the 2017-2018 season as Zuniga in Georges Bizet's Carmen. After being named a finalist in the first annual Glyndebourne Cup, he made his London debut as Jesus and the bass soloist in J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion (BWV 245) alongside James Gilchrist, at Barbican Hall with the Academy of Ancient Music (Director: Richard Egarr). He returned in 2019 to perform G.F. Handel: Brockes Passion, HWV 48, lead by Maestro Richard Egarr. He also recently made his German debut at the Händel-Festspiele in Göttingen, appearing as Segeste in G.F. Handel's Arminio (2018) and as the Bass soloist in the Dettingen Te Deum, under Maestro Laurence Cummings (2018).
As a concert soloist and recitalist, Cody Quattlebaum has appeared in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, The Alhambra in Granada, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln center, and the Taube Atrium at the Wilsey Center for Opera in San Francisco. He was the featured bass soloist in the premiere recording of Douglas Knehans’ Symbolum Apostolorum under the Ablaze Records label.
Cody Quattlebaum joined the Dutch National Opera studio in 2018-2019 and appeared in a new production of Tannhäuser directed by Christof Loy (April 2019), a revival of Il Matrimonio Segreto (June 2019), and was featured in the world premier of Caruso a Cuba (May 2019). He currently lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. |
