Sidney Outlaw delights audiences in the US and abroad with his rich and versatile baritone and engaging stage presence.  A graduate of the Merola Opera Program and the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, this rising American baritone from Brevard, North Carolina recently added a GRAMMY nomination, for the Naxos recording of Milhaud’s 1922 opera trilogy, L’Orestie d’Eschyle (in which he sang the role of Apollo) to his list of accomplishments.  He is singing the role of Pater Ecstaticus in Mahler's Eighth Symphony.

His 2017-17 season included Mercutio in Romeo et Juliette with Madison Opera, Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Faure’s Requiem and Mechem’s Songs of the Slave with Manhattan Concert Productions at Carnegie Hall, and Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Oratorio Society of New York.  He sang the role in May 2017of Elijah with the Canterbury Choral Society’s production of Mendelssohn’s oratorio of the same name.

The prior season saw his Dandini in La Cenerentola with the Greensboro Opera, appearances with the Charlotte Symphony, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music, and the Colour of Music Festivals, his Spoleto Festival debut as Jake in Porgy and Bess, and Madison Opera’s Opera in the Park.

Mr. Outlaw made his English National Opera debut as Rambo in The Death of Klinghoffer.  He has been a featured recitalist with Warren Jones at Carnegie Hall.   He traveled to Guinea as an Arts Envoy with the US State Department, singing a program of American music in honor of Black History Month and inn remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.