Frederick Ballentine

2o24 - 2o25

season engagements

Mr. Ballentine returns to the stage for the 2024-25 season for engagements with Dutch National Opera, the Seattle Opera, the Detroit Opera, and more.

TENOR SOLOIST

OPERA AT THE COLISEUM

PACIFIC VOCAL SERIES

OCTOBER 2024

OCTOBER

2024

Pelican Hill Resort

Newport Coast, California

Mr. Ballentine appears as as soloist with Pelican Hill Resort and the Pacific Vocal Series in an open-air opera performance at the Coliseum Pool.

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HARLEKIN

DER KAISER VON ATLANTIS

NEW WORLD SYMPHONY

OCTOBER 2024

OCTOBER

19 & 20

2024

New World Symphony

Miami Beach, Florida

Mr. Ballentine joins the New World Symphony for a staged double bill of Victor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis with a libretto by Peter Kein, and Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins, a ballet chanté composed to a German libretto by Bertolt Brech.

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TENOR SOLOIST

MATERNA REQUIEM

ST.FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH

OCTOBER 2024

OCTOBER

2024

St. Francis Xavier Church

Cincinnati, Ohio

Mr. Ballentine performs as the tenor soloist in Rebecca Dale's Materna Requiem under the baton of Trevor Kroeger.

CAPTAIN BEN MARCO

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

AUSTIN OPERA

NOVEMBER 2024

NOVEMBER

9 & 10

2024

The Long Center for Performing Arts

Austin, Texas

Mr. Ballentine makes his company debut as Captain Ben Marco in Put and Campbell's opera The Manchurian Candidate.

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SOLOIST

KONZERTHAUS BERLIN

NOVEMBER 2024

OUR PEOPLE

NOVEMBER

2024

Konzerthaus Berlin

Berlin, Germany

With "Our People", Indian-American pianist Kunal Lahiry and Grammy Award-winning tenor Frederick Ballentine are creating a space and a song program at the Konzerthaus for the Berlin voguing community, an important subculture for Black and LGBTQ communities.

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WITCH

UTAH OPERA

JANUARY 2025

HÄNSEL UND GRETEL

JANUARY

18, 20, 22, 24, & 26

2025

Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre

Salt Lake City, Utah

Mr. Ballentine joins the Utah Opera to sing the Witch in their production of Hänsel und Gretel.

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SIX

DUTCH NATIONAL OPERA

MARCH 2025

WE ARE THE LUCKY ONES

MARCH

14, 16, 19, 22, 26, & 30

2025

Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Freddie joins Dutch National Opera for composer Philip Venables and director Ted Huffman’s fourth music theatre collaboration, We are the Lucky Ones.

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SOLOIST

LEEDS LIEDER FESTIVAL

APRIL 2025

OUR PEOPLE

APRIL

2025

The Attic

Leeds, England

Freddie joins pianist Kunal Lahiry for a recital prgoram that was a passion product born out of the strife of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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KEVIN RICHARDSON

DETROIT OPERA

APRIL 2025

CENTRAL PARK FIVE

MAY

10, 16, & 18

2025

Detroit Opera House

Detroit, Michigan

Mr. Ballentine stars in Anthony Davis' 2020 Pulitzer Prize winning opera, The Central Park Five at Detroit Opera.

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SOLOIST

SEATTLE OPERA

APRIL 2025

in concert

APRIL

2025

Seattle Opera, McCaw Hall

Seattle, Washington

Fresh off his “captivating” (Bachtrack) performance as Loge in their 2023 Das Rheingold, Frederick Ballentine (Charlie Parker’s Yardbird ’20, Carmen ’19) returns to Seattle Opera for a one-night-only concert.

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MELOT

THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA

JUNE 2025

TRISTEN UND ISOLDE

JUNE

1 & 8

2025

Marian Anderson Hall

Philadelphia, Pennslyvannia

Freddie joins The Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin for Wagner's epic opera, Tristan und Isolde.

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TENOR SOLOIST

REAL ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA

JUNE 2025

BEETHOVEN 9

JULY

3 & 4

2025

Teatro de la Maestranza

Seville, Spain

Freddie joins the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla as the tenor soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.

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