ShawnRoth

"An exceptionally promising young tenor" (Parterre Box), Shawn Roth is a
second-year Butler Studio Artist at Houston Grand Opera. In the
2025-2026 season, he appears as Il venditore in il Tabarro (HGO), Curley
in Of Mice and Men (HGO), and Da-ud in Die Ägyptische Helena (Bard
Summerscape Festival). In the 2024-2025 season, he debuted as Heinrich
der Schreiber in Tannhäuser (HGO), covered Erik in Der fliegende
Holländer (Des Moines Metro Opera), competed in the final round of the
Neue Stimmen competition in Gütersloh, Germany, won Third Prize in the
Houston Saengerbund Awards, debuted Don José in Carmen (Corpus
Christi Symphony Orchestra), and made his New York solo recital debut
with the Wagner Society of New York, after winning First Prize in the 2024
WSNY Singers Awards. Roth is a winner of the Marilyn Horne Song
Competition, a two-time district winner of The Laffont Competition, and
looks forward to competing in the 2026 Belvedere Competition in
Jūrmala, Latvia. He is an alumnus of Oberlin Conservatory, Academy of
Vocal Arts, and is a three-time fellow of Music Academy of the West. Roth
will join the Bayerische Staatsoper Studio for the 2026-2027 season,
where he will sing First Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte, Third Squire in
Parsifal, Brühlmann in Werther, and High Priest in Idomeneo.