Shelton, Chad

Chad Shelton (Orange, Texas)

2025–26 Season: Father Grenville, Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally's Dead Man Walking

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Brigadier General Edward Alexander in Philip Glass' Appomattox

Recent and Upcoming: Herod in Salome (Metropolitan Opera, Stuttgart, Des Moines, Houston Grand Opera); Tchekalinsky in The Queen of Spades (Metropolitan Opera); Father Grenville in Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally's Dead Man Walking (Metropolitan Opera); Lt. B.F. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera); Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer (Opera Colorado, Santa Fe Opera); Father Confessor in Dialogues of the Carmelites (Houston); Witch of Endor in Handel's Saul; Pollione in Norma (Houston, North Carolina Opera); Aegisth in Elektra (Houston); Tarik O'Regan's The Phoenix (Houston); Charles II in Carlisle Floyd's The Prince of Players (Florentine Opera); Bob Boles in Peter Grimes (Metropolitan Opera); Player 3 in Brett Dean's Hamlet (Metropolitan Opera); Rodrigo in Otello (Metropolitan Opera); Don José in Carmen (Seiji Ozawa Music Academy); Loud Stone in Matthew Aucoin's Eurydice (Metropolitan Opera)