Jake Surzyn, Baritone
Jake Surzyn performs Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Op 125, “Choral” with the Carmel Symphony Orchestra on October 5th, 2024 for the CSO’s Opening Night Celebration: Beethoven & Liszt.
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- About Jake Surzyn
- About the Indianapolis Opera
- The Indianapolis Opera Resident Artist Program
About Jake
JAKE SURZYN, baritone, has performed with many of Michigan’s opera companies including Detroit Opera where he performed in Yuval Sharon’s production of Ragnar Kjartansson’s Bliss as Antonio and Rodríguez’s Frida as Mr. Rockefeller. Jake was an emerging artist at Opera Idaho during the 2022/2023 season, covering the roles of Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Macbeth (Macbeth), Jim Crowley (An American Dream), and Vodník (Rusalka) while performing as Fiorello, il Medico and il Servo, and the Hunter.
In the 2021/2022 season he was a studio artist with Madison Opera where he covered Jupiter in Orpheus in the Underworld and Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor.
Jake has been a developing artist with Central City Opera and an emerging artist with Charlottesville Opera, having performed as Samuel in Pirates of Penzance, Mr. Jones in Street Scene, Herr Zegler in The Sound of Music, Sir Lionel in Camelot, and covered Danilo in The Merry Widow, Franz in The Sound of Music, Marcello in La bohème, Lancelot in Camelot, and Escamillo in La tragédie de Carmen.
An avid performer of oratorio, Jake has been a soloist in works ranging from the Baroque to the contemporary.
About the Indianapolis Opera
The mission of Indianapolis Opera is to educate, inspire, and entertain through the creation and presentation of musical storytelling for our diverse Hoosier community.
Formed in 1975, Indianapolis Opera is the oldest and largest professional opera company in Indiana. In its nearly 50-year history, the Indianapolis Opera has presented 163 productions and large-scale concerts representing the work of 48 different composers, including more than 18 composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. IO delivers diverse artistic experiences, reaching over 30,000 audience members a year throughout all of Indiana with mainstage productions, educational programming, and outreach concerts. Each of these programs shares the thrill of live opera and the healing power of music with a multicultural blend of classic, lyric musical theater, and contemporary repertoire, each balancing style and language within the full spectrum of the human experience.
Opera is a unique art form, wherein all artistic expressions are equal and diverse simultaneously, combining the raw athletic power of the classical human voice with music composition, poetry, instruments, theater, scenic design, costuming, makeup and more. These fully dimensional presentations are affecting and meaningful, connecting artists and audiences both in times of uncertainty and periods of peace.
The Indianapolis Opera Resident Artist Program
In 1989, Indianapolis Opera founded their Resident Artist Program, and has worked with over 170 emerging artists who have gone on to national and international careers, performing on the stages of all of the world’s largest opera houses.
As the only professional opera artist development program in Indiana, the company delivers to their Resident Artists a complete training experience, during which IO Resident Artists serve as ambassadors of the Opera by presenting operatic performances and educational experiences throughout Indiana and neighboring states.
Artists who participate in the Resident Artist Program comment on both the breadth and depth of their experiences, from multiple opportunities to perform, intensive work with guest faculty, and mentorship from Indianapolis Opera team members.