McKinny, Ryan
(Los Angeles, California)
2025–26 Season: Joseph De Rocher, Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking
San Francisco Opera Highlights: Clarence in John Adams' Girls of the Golden West
Recent and Upcoming: Joseph de Rocher, Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking (Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago); Jan Nyman in Missy Mazzoli's Breaking the Waves (Houston Grand Opera); title role of Der Fliegende Holländer (Ópera National de Chile, Des Moines Metro Opera); Verdi Requiem (Colorado Symphony); Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Louisville Orchestra); Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Toledo Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra); title role of Don Giovanni (Washington National Opera, Chicago, Houston); title role of Bluebeard's Castle (Boston Lyric Opera); title role of Le Nozze di Figaro (Seattle Opera, Metropolitan Opera); Gerald “Mac” McDonald in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Before It All Goes Dark (Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago); Amfortas in Parsifal (Bayreuth); Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde (Seattle Opera); Wotan in Das Rheingold (Montreal); Donner in the Ring cycle (WNO, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Houston); Scarpia in Tosca (LA Opera); Oppenheimer in John Adams' Doctor Atomic (Santa Fe Opera); Jochanaan in Salome (Houston); Clarence in Adams' Girls of the Golden West (LA Philharmonic, Amsterdam's Dutch National Opera); Adams' Nixon in China (LA Phil); Mahler's Eighth Symphony (LA Phil)
Stage director of Kevin Puts' Silent Night (Wolf Trap Opera)