Beau Palmer

American Tenor Beau Palmer, now teaching voice at Georgia Southwestern State University, has performed with major American and European opera companies and symphonies singing a diverse repertoire of roles. Recently he returned to Opéra Nantes and Opéra Angers to sing Zio Vezinet (Il Cappello di Paglia de Firenze) where he has recently sung the roles of Hauk Sendorf (Macropulos Case) and Fatty (Mahagonny), a role he reprised from the Spoleto Festival, USA. Mr. Palmer returned to the Spoleto Festival, USA as Monostatos (Magic Flute) a role he has performed with Opera Pacific, Choregies d'Orange and Florida Grand Opera. Mr. Palmer has received acclaim as Little Bat McLean (Susannah) at the Washington Opera and Le Grand Théâtre de Genève, as Don Jerome in Prokofiev's Fiancailles au Couvent at the Opéra National de Lyon and Le Grand Théâtre de Genève, as the title role of Shostakovich's The Nose with Opéra de Lausanne (available on disc), as Valzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier) at New York City Opera, San Diego Opera, Washington Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, and as Pong and Pang (Turandot) at the Paris Opéra and San Diego Opera. He has also sung with with San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, La Monnaie (Brussels), Lille Opéra, Dallas Opera, the Metropolitain Opera Company and Long Beach Opera. Mr. Palmer was seen with New York City Opera as Spoleta (Tosca), televised nationally for PBS's "Live From Lincoln Center." He also premiered Handel's Elijah as the tenor soloist in China and Hong Kong. At Mercer University as part of his Master of Music degree program which he has just completed he performed the role of Oronte in Handle's Alcina, and Jud Fry in Oklahoma!. He has also recently on several occasions been soloist with the Choral Society of Middle Georgia.