In the 2025-26 season, Alfred Walker returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Creonte in Medea and to the Metropolitan Opera for Porgy in Porgy and Bess. He also sings Scarpia in Tosca with both Glyndebourne Opera and Florentine Opera, Nourabad in Les pêcheurs de perles in a return to Palm Beach Opera, and Jochanaan in Salome with Cincinnati Opera. On the concert stage he joins the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall for Gaspard in Le Freyschütz and joins the Cincinnati Symphony and acclaimed soprano Julia Bullock for the Porgy and Bess Suite. Recent credits include: Don Fernando in Fidelio (Chicago); Enobarbus in Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra (Met, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and San Francisco Opera); High Priest of Dagon in Samson et Dalila (New Orleans); the King in Smetena’s Dalibor and the Man in a Helmet in Julietta (Bard SummerScape); Verdi’s Requiem (Philadelphia Orchestra); Porgy in the suite from Porgy and Bess (Cologne Philharmonie); Orest in Elektra (Dallas Opera); Frère Laurant in Roméo et Juliette, Masetto in Don Giovanni, and Rambaldo in La rondine (Met Opera); Vater in Hänsel und Gretel (Chicago); Amonasro in Aida (Detroit);  title role in Saint-Saëns’ Henry VIII (Bard SummerScape); Rachmaninoff’s The Bells (LA Philharmonic under Maestro Gustavo Dudamel); and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Boston Philharmonic).

Photo by Walter Hill