Arizona Opera Cast Members & Creatives

Praised for his “vibrant” performances (The New York Times), his “handsome” and “impressive bass” (Opera Today), and his “rich, agile sound” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi celebrates his 26th season at The Metropolitan Opera, where he has given over 450 performances. He opens their 2025/26 Season in the Company Premiere of Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, directed by Bartlett Sher and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He makes his company debut at Atlanta Opera as Bartolo in The Marriage of Figaro and sings his signature role, Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville at both San Francisco Opera and San Diego Opera.

Last season, he returned to the Met as the Sacristan in Tosca, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Marco Armiliato, and Xian Zhang, alongside Sondra Radvanovsky, Lise Davidsen, and Aleksandra Kurzak over the course of thirteen performances. He sang Agata in Viva la Mamma and the title role in Cimarosa’s Il maestro di cappella at Florentine Opera, and he returned to the Met for Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville, his first performance of this signature role at the company. In the summer months, he sang the title role in Don Pasquale at Opera Theatre of St. Louis in a production by Christopher Alden, conducted by Kensho Watanabe.