Grammy Award-winning, Kansas City native David Morgans is a promising young Afro-Latinx tenor. This season, he’s back at the Metropolitan Opera on teams for Lohengrin, Der fliegende Holländer, and Champion with more to be announced! Most recently, he was to sing the roles of Mingo and Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess with Des Moines Metro Opera and sang concerts as Il Duca in Rigoletto and as Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles. He also appeared as Mr. Charles in Ricky Ian Gordon’s Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center Theater and was bound to make his role and house debut with Florentine Opera as Rodolfo in their new production of Puccini’s La Boheme.

The 2021-2022 season began with Mr. Morgans opening the Metropolitan Opera’s new season as Pledge in Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones. Next, he reprised his role as Prayer in The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, sang concert work in the Met’s performances of Verdi’s Requiem and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, and was also in the season’s Live in HD production of Boris Godunov. Mr. Morgans could also be seen in their productions of Die Meistersinger and La Boheme.

Last season duirng the COVID-19 lockdown, Mr. Morgans was a resident artist at Portland Opera where he made his debut of Uncle Mac in Night Trip by Carlos Simon, studied the roles of Romeo (Romeo et Julliette), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Rodolfo (La Boheme), and sang several recitals. A highlight from his concert work is singing Hailstork’s cantata for solo tenor and chorus, I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes, in a concert with Hunter College. The 2019-2020 season found Mr. Morgans as a finalist in the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Competition hosted by the Chicago Lyric Opera. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Prayer in their new production of The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and appeared in their new production Der fliegende Holländer.

The 2018-2019 season began with Mr. Morgans’ New York City debut as Rodolfo (La Boheme) in concert work with City Lyric Opera in performances that were praised as “one of the best we've heard” (Voce di Meche). In the spring of 2019, he appeared as an Apprentice Artist with Sarasota Opera. Under the baton of Maestro Victor DeRenzi, he sang several concerts as various Verdian heros such as Don Alvaro (La Forza del Destino), Jacopo (I due Foscari) and Henri (Les vêpres Siciliennes) in addition to concert work as Gerald (Lakmé). Mr. Morgans spent that summer making his first introduction to New York City Opera covering the role of Renata in the world premiere of Stonewall by Iain Bell with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Mark Campbell.

            A few past highlights include time as an Apprentice Artist with Des Moines Metro Opera studying the roles of Ferrando (Cosí fan tutte), Il Duca (Rigoletto), and Tom Snout (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) as well as work in graduate school as Grimolado in Rodelinda, and singing the roles of Rinuccio and Gherardo in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.

            Mr. Morgans appears on Albany Records’ world premiere recording of Adolphus Hailstork’s I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes; a cantata for solo tenor, chorus, and piano featuring William Jewell College Concert Choir as the underpinning of Hailstork’s masterpiece along with other exceptional musical offerings from the Concert Choir.

            Based out of New York City, David Morgans calls Kansas City his home. He holds his Bachelor of Science in Music from William Jewell College and his Master of Music from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance.