American tenor Jamez McCorkle’s recent highlights include the title role of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar which premiered at the Spoleto Festival in 2022 and was subsequently presented at LA Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera and Carolina Performing Arts Center. His recent roles include Bacchus in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos and Laca (Jenůfa). McCorkle’s 2024/25 Season highlights included his role debuts as Florestan at Washington National Opera and Opéra national de Bordeaux and also as Siegmund (Die Walküre) at Santa Fe Opera and Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos) at Staatsoper Hamburg. His 2025/26 Season includes three appearances as Siegmund (Orchestre de Paris, Accademia di Santa Cecilia and the LA Philharmonic), his debut as Parsifal and Erik (Der fliegende Holländer) at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Florestan (Fidelio) for Hungarian State Opera, and Bacchus at the Staatsoper Hamburg. He makes his Royal Opera debut in the 2025/26 Season as Grigory Otrepiev in Boris Godunov.