| New York 2023 ISPA Congress– Anthony Roth Costanzo |
 Anthony Roth CostanzoOpera Singer and Producer
Grammy Award-winner Anthony Roth Costanzo has appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. Recently, he returned to the Metropolitan Opera in his acclaimed performance of the title role in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten. Last season he was the New York Philharmonic’s Artist-in-Residence, performing and curating programming to reflect on questions of identity. Over the pandemic, he partnered with the Philharmonic to create and produce NY Phil Bandwagon, an initiative that brought over a hundred concerts to all five boroughs. This fall, he took London’s BBC Proms into a nightclub for the first time with his film/fashion/dance/opera extravaganza Glass Handel. His live show Only an Octave Apart with cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond received numerous “Best of 2021” accolades for its New York run, and enjoyed a month-long run in London to more rave reviews in fall 2022. Anthony is an exclusive recording artist with Decca Gold. His debut album, ARC, a collection of arias by Handel and Glass with Les Violons du Roy, was nominated for a Grammy. His most recent album, Anthony Roth Costanzo & Justin Vivian Bond: Only an Octave Apart was released in January 2022. He also stars on the Metropolitan Opera’s recording and DVD of Akhnaten which won the 2022 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording. Anthony has performed and produced around the world at venues including Carnegie Hall, Versailles, Madison Square Garden, Philadelphia Opera, The Berlin Philharmonic, The Kennedy Center, The London Symphony Orchestra, Kabuki-Za Tokyo, San Francisco Opera, The Guggenheim, Chicago Lyric Opera, The Park Avenue Armory, Teatro Real Madrid, and many others. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in a Merchant Ivory film and graduated with honors from Princeton University, where he has returned to teach, and Manhattan School of Music, where he is on the board of trustees and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2022. Also in 2022, Costanzo was honored by the New York Historical Society with its distinguished History Makers Award and received a fellowship from Oxford University. Speaker |
