About this Artist

Lauded by Opera News for his “inky bass-baritone and clear projection seemed ideally suited to the role, capturing this isolated man's passion with telling grief,” in the 2021/22 season Alfred Walker returns to San Francisco Opera as Scarpia in Tosca, returns to the Metropolitan Opera for further performances of Crown in Porgy and Bess, joins Washington National Opera as Mtchll in It All Falls Down with is a part of Written In Stone, a tetralogy one-act operas by Carlos Simon and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and joins Washington Concert Opera as Nalikantha in Lakme.  He recently joined Michigan Opera Theatre as Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana, the Metropolitan Opera for Crown in Porgy and Bess, San Francisco Opera for Vater in Hansel und Gretel, Boston Lyric Opera for Oroveso in Norma, and Washington National Opera for the title role in Porgy and Bess.  Other recent performances include the Titurel in Parisfal and the Speaker in The Magic Flute with the Metropolitan Opera, the Ruler in Das Wunder der Heliane with Bard Summerscape, Orest in Elektra with San Francisco Opera, Amonasro in Aida and Porgy in Porgy and Bess with Seattle Opera, Méphistophélès in Faust with Portland Opera, and the Man with the Helmet in Martinů’s Juliettaat Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony Orchestra 

The bass-baritone recently triumphed as the title role in Der fliegende Holländer at Theater Basel and returned to the company for his first performances of both Amfortas in Parsifal and Amonasro in Aida.  Other recent performances include Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde at Angers Nantes Opera and Opéra de Dijon; his first performances of Wotan in Das Rheingold with North Carolina Opera; Méphistophélès in Berlioz’s La damnation du Faust at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago; the title role of Der fliegende Holländer with Oper Köln, Seattle Opera, Théâtre de Caen, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg Boston Lyric Opera, and the Wagner Geneva Festival; the title role of Josh Gibson in the world premiere of Sonenberg’s The Player King with Pittsburgh Opera; Pizarro in Fidelio with Caramoor International Music Festival; Bluebeard in Bluebeard’s Castle with the New Japan Philharmonic; Amonasro in Aida with Utah Opera; Creonte in Medea with the Opéra national de Lorraine; Four Villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann with Komische Oper Berlin  and Den Norske Opera; and Il Prologo in Gnecchi’s Cassandrawith the Deutsche Oper Berlin.  His celebrated characterization of Orest in Elektra has been seen at Teatro alla Scala, Seattle Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Spain’s San Sebastián Festival and he received great acclaim for performances of Allazim in the Peter Sellars’ production of Zaide at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Wiener Festwochen, London’s Barbican Center, and Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. He sang Telramund in concert performances of Lohengrin in Oviedo, Spain under the baton of Semyon Bychkov and later joined the conductor and the WDR Sinfonie Orchester Köln for Lodovico in Otello.  In lesser-known repertoire, he sang Kunrad in Feuersnot with the American Symphony Orchestra and König Karl in Schubert’s Fierrabras at the Bard Music Festival.

Additional highlights of recent seasons include his Los Angeles Opera debut as Porgy in Porgy and Bess; title role of Don Quichotte, Four Villains in Les contes d'Hoffmann with Seattle Opera and Tulsa Opera; Méphistophélès in Faust also with Tulsa Opera; Achilla in Giulio Cesare and Colline in La bohème with San Diego Opera, Atlanta Opera, and New Orleans Opera; Leporello in Don Giovanni with Opera North; Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Palm Beach Opera, Banquo in Macbeth with Minnesota Opera; Donner in Das Rheingold with New Orleans Opera; and Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte with Minnesota Opera and Utah Opera.  Also a frequent presence on the Metropolitan Opera stage, he recently returned to the famed house for Parsi Rustomji in its first presentation Satyagraha in addition to joining the company for its productions of Bluebeard’s Castle, Il trovatore, Elektra, Le nozze di Figaro, Roméo et Juliette, Don Giovanni, Samson et Dalila, Pelléas et Mélisande, Les Troyens, and L'enfant et les sortilèges.