Alan Held

"One of Opera's Finest Singing Actors"

World wide Management:
Caroline Woodfield, Vice President
Opus 3 Artists
Email: cwoodfield@opus3 artists.com
Phone 212.584.7526

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DC THEATER SCENE

Starring in the title role of Wozzeck was the American, Alan Held, who owns one of the most beautiful bass-baritones in the world. That voice is big, too, and exceptionally smooth. Fortunately, Mr. Held is also a skilled singing actor.
NEW YORK SUN

Alan Held was a sensational Jochanaan. His dark baritone, his enunciation, his muscularity and his acting were perfection.

THE OPERA CRITIC

Alan Held’s Wotan is a complete performance: a fusion of singing and acting into a whole, rounded character portrayal that stays lodged in the mind and heart. The staging of Wotan’s monologue, in which he voices his intense frustration that he can’t find a hero who is able to do things that the gods can’t, seemed so right that it’s permanently colored my understanding of the opera.
THE WASHINGTON POST

Never have I heard a voice resonate Verizon Hall like Mr. Held’s...the bass-baritone’s vocal passages gorgeously depict his character’s own inner-struggles with fate while his gorgeous tone cuts through to the back of the house.
PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE

The amazing American bass-baritone, Alan Held, who on his own is worth the price of admission…animal magnetism to burn and the kind of darkly ringing tones that sound like giant redwoods toppling during a forest fire.
TORONTO STAR