One of the great American tenors of his generation, Paul Groves continues to enjoy an impressive international career performing on the stages of the world’s leading opera houses and most prestigious concert halls. In the 2022-23 season, Mr. Grove appeared with the Houston Grand Opera for Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, and made his return to the Metropolitan Opera in the role of Howie Albert in Terence Blanchard’s Champion. Highlights of Mr. Groves’ 2023-24 season will include a return to Champion in the same role with the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Paul Groves began his 2019-20 season performing La Damnation de Faust in concert with the Shanghai and Beijing Symphonies. He returned to the Metropolitan Opera for his 27th season with the company in performances of Chekalinsky in The Queen of Spades and Tamino in The Magic Flute.

Recent seasons have seen Groves at Opera de Lyon for performances as Faust in Boito’s Mefistofele, his debut at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan as the title role in Candide, and his debut as Herod in Salome with the Spoleto Festival USA. A veteran of the concert stage, Groves appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Stravinsky’s Persephone with Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Indianapolis Symphony for Bruckner’s Te Deum with Krzysztof Urbanski, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with Donald Runnicles. Recent performances include as Wilhelm Arndt in The Ring of Polykrates with the Dallas Opera under Music Director Emmanuel Villaume, Faust in a concert production of La Damnation de Faust with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with Opera de Lyon, Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 with the Rochester Philharmonic, Haydn’s Creation with the Prague Philharmonia, and Das Lied von der Erde alongside Sasha Cooke at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

Additional highlights of recent seasons include a rare role debut singing Alessandro Cesare in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo with the Opéra national de Paris, his first performances in the title role of Wagner’s Parsifal with the Lyric Opera of Chicago led by Sir Andrew Davis, appearances as Admète in Gluck’s Alceste with Madrid’s Teatro Real, Nicias in Massenet’s Thais with the Los Angeles Opera, and Pylade in Iphigénie en Aulide with Theater an der Wien. An avid concert performer, Groves’ previous season was filled with debuts and return engagements with symphonies across the United States. Throughout the 2016/2017 season, he was seen performing Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony, Berlioz’ Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony under Charles Dutoit, as well as Stravinsky’s Perséphone with the Oregon Symphony.