American tenor Gerard Powers has enjoyed enthusiastic acclaim from critics and audiences alike, commanding a fresh and exciting perspective on a wide range of operatic roles, throughout North America and Europe. Described by the New York Times as having a rich, virile, warm and ardent voice, Mr. Powers is also recognized for his strong acting skills, leading man looks and dynamic, energetic stage presence, whose excellent diction and artistic expressivity is recognized internationally.

Engagements during the 2007-2008 season will include debuts at San Franciso Opera as Prunier in La Rondine, and at the Bolshoi Opera as Don José in Carmen. He will sing Rodolfo in La Bohème for Opera Columbus and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly for Fresno Grand Opera..

Mr. Powers' engagements for the 2006-2007 season include Rodolfo in La Bohème in the Gala Concert at Florida Grand Opera; Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Boston Lyric Opera; the Gala Concert at New Orleans Opera; Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and Richard Smythe in The End of the Affair by Jake Heggie for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. He will sing the tenor solo in Lukas Foss's The Prairie at Rose Hall in Lincoln Center with the Brooklyn Philharmonic.

In the 2005-2006 season Mr. Powers sang the role of Ulysses in Gabriel’s Fauré’s Pénélope with the Wexford Festival, Ruggero in La Rondine in Salt Lake City with Opera Utah; Milio Dufresne in Leoncavallo’s Zaza with Teatro Grattacielo at Alice Tully Hall, Don Jose in Carmen with Opera Tampa, and Rodolfo in La Bohème with New York City Opera. He made his debut at Teatro Massimo in Palermo in the role of Anatol in Vanessa, as well as a debut as Hérisson de Porc-Epic in Chabrier's L'Étoile with Cincinnati Opera.

In the 2004-2005 season Mr. Powers returned to New York City Opera to sing Ruggero in La Rondine and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, the title role in Faust with Michigan Opera Theatre, the title role in Les Contes D’Hoffmann with Baltimore Opera, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with NYCO on tour to Japan in Tokyo and Nagoya as part of World Expo 2005, and Pinkerton with Central City Opera in Catherine Malfitano’s directorial debut. Mr. Powers returned to Carnegie Hall as the tenor soloist in the Verdi Requiem with the Oratorio Society of New York.

In the 2003-2004 season Mr. Powers returned to De Vlaamse Opera to sing the title role in Les Contes D’Hoffmann. He sang Rodolfo in Francesca Zambello’s new production of La Bohème in the Royal Albert Hall in London. Mr. Powers returned to Carnegie Hall for the Verdi Requiem with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the tenor soloist in Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with the Oratorio Society of New York. He also sang the title role in Les Contes D’Hoffmann in Central City, CO.

Engagements during the 2002-2003 season included the title role in Werther, and Luigi in Il Tabarro (as part of Robert Carsen’s world-renowned production of Puccini’s Il Trittico) with De Vlaamse Opera; Alfredo in La Traviata in Belgium’s Vorst Nationaal, Germany’s Cologne Arena, and Lisbon’s Atlântico-Pavilhao; Rodolfo in La Bohème with New York City Opera; and Nicias in Thaïs with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

The 2001-2002 season included a return to New York City Opera as Cavaradossi in Tosca; both Don José in Carmen and Gérald in Lakmé with Michigan Opera Theatre; Rodolfo in La Bohème at the Cologne Arena; and Ismaele in Nabucco at Belgium’s Vorst Nationaal. Concert engagements during the 2001-2002 season include the Mozart Requiem with L’Orchestre National de Lille and the Verdi Requiem with the Tokyo City Orchestra.

The 2000-2001 season included a return to New York City Opera as Alfredo in La Traviata, as Rodolfo in La Bohème, and as Cavaradossi in Tosca; a debut with Houston Grand Opera as Don José in Carmen; a debut with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Rodolfo in La Bohème; a role debut as Ismaele in Nabucco at the Cologne Arena; and appearances as Don José in Carmen at Munich’s Olympiahalle and the Amsterdam ArenA. Concert engagements during the 2000-2001 season included Gösta Berling in Zandonai’s I Cavalieri di Ekebù with Teatro Grattacielo at Alice Tully Hall, and both Haroun in Bizet’s Djamileh and Kornélis in Saint-Saëns’s La Princesse Jaune with L’Opéra Français de New York at Alice Tully Hall.

Other recent engagements for Mr. Powers include Don José in Carmen at Germany’s Cologne Arena and Opera Festival of New Jersey, the Duke in Rigoletto with Portland Opera Repertory Theatre in Maine, and Fenton in Falstaff with Opera Illinois; concert engagements included Federico in Cilea’s L’Arlesiana with Teatro Grattacielo at New York’s Alice Tully Hall and Kodály’s Psalmus Hungaricus with the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall.