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Biography

Of Jason Hardy‘s debut with New York City Opera in Acis and Galatea, Opera News remarked that the role of Polyphemus was “brilliantly played.” In his return to New York City Opera, he gave a highly-acclaimed performance as Leporello in their new production of Don Giovanni.  In the 2011-12 season, Jason once again performs Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with Michigan Opera Theater and sings the dual roles of Grandpa George/Mr. Beauregard in The Golden Ticket with the Atlanta Opera. This past season, he made his debut with Madison Opera as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, returned to the Atlanta Opera as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, and sang Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Bar Harbor Music Festival. Upcoming engagements include his reprise of Leporello in Don Giovanni with Portland Opera, Don Magnifico in La cenerentola with Nashville Opera,  and Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with Arizona Opera

 In concert he was seen with the Richmond Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Mass in b minor with the Atlanta Sacred Chorale, Mozart’s Requiem and Bach’s Cantata #106 with the Handel Choir of Baltimore. Jason’s most recent operatic engagements include the title role in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Cleveland, Opera Omaha, and Opera Birmingham, the Speaker in Die Zauberflöte with Atlanta Opera, Cadmus and Somnus in Semele with Florentine Opera, a return to Connecticut Opera as Leporello in their production of Don Giovanni, and Colline in La bohème with the Nashville Opera. He was also recently seen in recital under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation, and in concert for Verdi’s Requiem in Prague and Haydn’s Creation in Montreal with the Berkshire Choral Festival, and for Stravinsky’s Les Noces with the New York City Ballet and the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Jason has also been seen as Leporello in Don Giovanni with Orlando Opera, Colline in La bohème with Berkshire Opera and Palm Beach Opera, Don Magnifico in La cenerentola with Connecticut Opera and Wolf Trap Opera, Basilio in Barber of Seville and Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Opera Birmingham, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore with Cleveland Opera and Wolf Trap Opera, 5th Jew in Salome with Baltimore Opera, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Frank in Die Fledermaus with the Merola Opera Program of the San Francisco Opera, an opera gala with Opéra de Montréal, as well as Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd with Wolf Trap Opera.

The bass was a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, National Finalist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago Center for American Artists, Grand Prize-winner of both the Florida Grand Opera Competition and the Heinz Rehfuss Singing Actor Competition, and a winner in the Liederkranz Foundation, Palm Beach Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Birmingham, Connecticut Opera, and the Oratorio Society of New York vocal competitions. He is also the recipient of a Sullivan Foundation Career Grant.   On the concert platform, Mr. Hardy has given numerous performances at Carnegie Hall, including Mozart’s Requiem and Ein Deutches Requiem by Brahms, both under the baton of John Rutter. Concert highlights also include debuts at the Kennedy Center, Avery Fisher Hall, and appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, National Chorale, New York Choral Society, New York City Ballet, Pacific Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Other performances have included Bach’s Magnificat, and St. John Passion, as well as The Creation, Mass in c minor, Messiah, Judas Maccabaeus, L’Enfance du Christ, Dona Nobis Pacem, Fauré’s Requiem, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.