A Kansas native, Scott Conner has been lauded by critics and audiences for his appearances on both sides of the Atlantic. Mr. Conner’s warm, flexible voice and elegant stature brings proficiency in a wide range of repertoire, including Mozart, Rossini, Handel, Donizetti and Verdi. He is a graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts, and a Sara Tucker study grant winner from the Richard Tucker Foundation.
Regularly appearing with The Metropolitan Opera, Scott Conner’s 2026-2027 season features two notable assignments there: Colline in La bohème, and the Police Commissioner in Der Rosenkavalier. He also makes his Seattle Opera debut, singing the First Soldier/First Nazarene in Salome, and joins the Santa Fe Symphony for Verdi’s Requiem.
During the previous season, he returned to The Metropolitan Opera in a house role debut singing Zuniga in Carmen, Aldeano Three in El último sueño de Frida y Diego, and covering Colline in La bohème. He made his stage debut with Lyric Opera of Chicago as the First Soldier in Salome, and returned to Opera Philadelphia to sing Lord Sidney in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims.
Mr. Conner began his 2024-2025 season with The Metropolitan Opera, where he performed One-Armed Brother in Die Frau ohne Schatten, 2nd Armored Man in their holiday presentation of The Magic Flute, and Jose Tripaldi in Ainadamar. He also joined the company to cover Don Fernando in Fidelio and Colline in La bohème. In the spring, Mr. Conner made an anticipated role and house debut as Ramfis in Aida with Arizona Opera. In concert, he sang Mozart’s Requiem with the Jacksonville Symphony, and joined the Defiant Requiem Foundation for Verdi’s Requiem, performed in partnership with the Dallas Symphony.
Mr. Conner made his debut with The Metropolitan Opera in 2017 as the Police Commissioner in Der Rosenkavalier, and has subsequently returned in numerous roles, including: Colline in La bohème, The Voice of Neptune in Idomeneo, Schwarz in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Pinellino in Gianni Schicchi, and covering Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Bello in La fanciulla del West, and Creonte in Medea.
Other notable U.S. appearances include San Francisco Opera as Tom in Un ballo in maschera, Colline in La bohème and Angelotti in Tosca; his Cleveland Orchestra debut as Ashby in La fanciulla del West; San Diego Opera as Escamillo in Carmen; Santa Fe Opera as Mustafa in L’italiana in Algeri and Pistola in Falstaff; Portland Opera as Sparafucile in Rigoletto; Opera Philadelphia as The King in The Love for Three Oranges; Palm Beach Opera as Angelotti in Tosca; Lyric Opera of Kansas City as King Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Des Moines Metro Opera as Jupiter in Platée and the King in The Love for Three Oranges; Handel and Haydn in Le nozze di Figaro, singing both Bartolo and Antonio; Jacksonville Symphony in his role debut as Zuniga in Bizet’s Carmen; Bard Summerscape as a Judge in the American Premiere of Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane and the Spoleto Festival USA as the First Soldier and First Nazarene in Salome. Additionally, he joined the roster of the Lyric Opera of Chicago to cover the role of Mephistopheles in Faust.
Scott Conner began his career in Europe as an ensemble member of Semperoper Dresden, where his roles included Colline in La bohème, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Masetto in Don Giovanni and Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He has also appeared with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and BBC Proms as the Police Commissioner in Der Rosenkavalier, Zürich Opera for Don Profondo in Il Viaggio a Reims, as well as Zoroastro in Orlando under the baton of William Christie; Bayerische Staatsoper singing Tom in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, conducted by Zubin Mehta, as well as the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Theseus in Robert Carsen’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cavalli’s Elena; Opéra National de Paris as Nerbulone in Eliogabalo; Opera de Dijon as Jupiter/Vulcano in La finta pazza, led by Leonardo Alarcon; Dutch National Opera as Nerbulone in Eliogabalo and Bernardino in Benvenuto Cellini; Glyndebourne Festival Opera for Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin; L’Opéra de Lille as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Canadian Opera Company as the 2nd Soldier in Salome.
Mr. Conner was the recipient of the 1st Prize Award in the Gerda Lissner Vocal Competition and the Loren L. Zachary Vocal Competition. Conner attended the University of Missouri, Kansas City for his Bachelor of Music degree.
