ADA Artist Management & Representation

Biography

Tenor Scott Piper’s rich, resonate voice and charismatic stage presence are quickly establishing him as a sought after interpreter of opera’s romantic leading men, in roles such as the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Don José in Bizet’s Carmen, Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Rodolfo in La bohème. The Washington Post wrote of his Virginia Opera performance: “Scott Piper, as the Duke of Mantua, was given some of the finest tenor music in Italian opera and rose to its challenges impressively.” In the upcoming 2009-2010 season he will be seen as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Tulsa Opera, Cleveland Opera and Seattle Opera, and the title role in Faust with The New Israeli Opera and Dayton Opera.

His engagements for 2008-2009 included Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with Dayton Opera, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with both Florentine Opera and the Utah Opera, the Duke in Rigoletto with the Anna Livia International Opera Festival in Dublin Ireland, and Roldofo in La bohème and Don José in Carmen with New Israeli Opera. Engagements for 2007-2008 saw Mr. Piper as Don José in Carmen once again with New York City Opera as well as with Intermountain Opera, returning to Jacksonville Symphony for Alfredo in La traviata, singing Cavaradossi for Utah Opera’s Tosca, and making his debut with Florentine Opera as Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi. Highlights of the 2006-2007 included his debuts with Seattle Opera and Opera Birmingham as Rodolfo in La bohème, José in Carmen with New York City Opera, Tulsa Opera, and Des Moines Metro Opera, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Eugene Symphony. Other recent engagements include a return to Minnesota Opera in the North American Premiere of Mercadante’s Orazi & Curiazi, Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut for the Intermountain Opera Association, and his Glimmerglass Opera debut as Steva in Jenůfa.

Mr. Piper has been heard throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has recently appeared with Houston Grand Opera, the International Music Festival of Macau, Vancouver Opera (British Columbia), Compañia Lírica Nacional de Costa Rica, the New Peoples Theater of Moscow (Russia), Minnesota Opera, Opera Pacific, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Dayton Opera, Madison Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, and New York City Opera. In Italy he has appeared in Rome, Catanzaro, Modena, Ravenna, and at Teatro di Verdi in Busseto. He also appears as Alfredo in the new DVD of Franco Zeffirelli’s production’s of La traviata with Stefania Bonfadell, Renato Bruson and conducted by Placido Domingo.

As a guest soloist Scott Piper has appeared with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the Plymouth Symphony, the Canton Symphony Orchestra, the Flint Symphony, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Madison Symphony, the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, the Shreveport Symphony. With the Friends of the Opera of Michigan he sang the North American Premiere of Perosi’s oratorio La Rissurezione di Christo. Scott has received awards from: the Univeristy of Michigan Friends of the Opera, the National Society of Arts and Letters, the William C. Byrd Foundation, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the Ken Boxley Foundation, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition, the George London Foundation, and received the Jim and Janice Botsford Study Grant.