Three-time Grammy Award-winning bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is our 2025 Olga Forrai Foundation Award for Artistic Excellence honoree. Mr. Green regularly appears on the great operatic and concert stages worldwide, including New York, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Glyndebourne, Santa Fe, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Toronto.

Singing a wide variety of roles from the standard repertoire of Wagner, Verdi, Strauss, Puccini, and Mozart, Mr. Green has also received critical acclaim for his roles in contemporary works like Terence Blanchard’s Champion and Fire Shut Up in My Bones and Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick. This Summer, Mr. Green makes role debuts as Klingsor in Parsifal (Glyndebourne), Wotan in Die Walküre (Santa Fe), and next Spring as King Marke in a new production of Tristan und Isolde at The Metropolitan Opera.

Honors and awards include a 2011 Grant from The Olga Forrai Foundation, the same year he was a National Grand Finals Winner in The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He has been the recipient of a 2014 George London Foundation Award, 2014 Annenberg Grant recipient, 2014 Gerda Lissner Foundation First Prize winner, Richard Tucker Career Grant, and Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation, and in 2023 received the Beverly Sills Artist Award from The Metropolitan Opera.

Learn more about Ryan here.

Ryan Speedo Green will be present at the event.