Tommy Glass

Baritone Thomas Glass is the winner of the 2022 Mabel Dorn Reader Foundation Prize at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and a Grand Prize Wilmer at the 2019 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio and Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Program.

In the 2024-2025 season, Thomas makes a return to the Metropolitan Opera to

cover Starbuck in Moby Dick, and to cover Antony in Antony and Cleopatra.

In the 2023-2024 season, Mr. Glass returned to Atlanta Opera to sing the title role of Jack Torrence in The Shining, and to the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Marcello in La bohème. Mr. Glass returned to the Metropolitan Opera to cover Mercutio in Romeo et Juliette conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin and sing in the Sumner Recital Series.

Highlights of recent seasons include house and role debuts at The Metropolitan Opera (Yamadori in Madama Butterfly), Opera Theater of Saint Louis (title role in Harvey Milk: Reimagined), Berkshire Opera Festival (Ford in Falstaff), Atlanta Opera (Dandini in La Cenerentola) and at Arizona Opera (John Lassiter in Riders of the Purple Sage). He made role debuts at Houston Grand Opera as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Mercutio in Romeo et Juliette, Marcello in La bohème, and the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Mr. Glass made his San Francisco Opera debut covering Mark Antony in John Adams, new opera Antony and Cleopatra. He also made his role and house debut at Palm Beach Opera as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, and returned to Minnesota Opera for his role debut as Leporello in Don Giovanni.

Born in Edina, Minnesota, Thomas earned his Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota.