Having “already made a name for himself in the world of opera” with his “delicate and flexible” voice, tenor Bernard Holcomb returned to The Metropolitan Opera last season for both X: The Life and Times of Malcom X and Fire Shut Up in My Bones, after recently making his Met debut in Champion. This season, Mr. Holcomb returns to the Met to sing the Fourth Jew in Salome and to Eugene Opera to sing the Duke in Rigoletto. He also joins Opera Parallèle in the title role of The Pigeon Keeper, Heartbeat Opera for the pastiche Slaylem: The Witch Trials, and he returns to Carnegie Hall for Mozart’s Coronation Mass with MidAmerica Productions and for Robert Ray’s Gospel Mass with Manhattan Concert Productions. This summer, he’ll join Connecticut Lyric Opera to sing The Trickster God in Amistad before returning to Central City Opera to perform the Minstrel in Once Upon a Mattress. Other recent highlights include Alfredo in La Traviata with Eugene Opera, Beadle Bamford in Pacific Symphony’s Sweeney Todd, Henry Davis in Street Scene and Iago in Rossini’s Otello with Central City, and his Opera Omaha debut in X: the Life and Times of Malcolm X.