Kevin Thompson possesses a voice with extraordinary range, depth, and color, combined with a commanding stage presence.

Upcoming engagements include Il Re in Aida for Ft. Worth Opera, January in Zaid Jabri’s Southern Crossings for Barnard College, the First Nazarene in Salome for Tulsa Opera, Sparafucile in Rigoletto for Nashville Opera, the Old Hebrew in Samson et Dalila for Bob Jones University, Oroveso in Norma for the Walnut Creek Festival, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for The Florida Orchestra.

Recent engagements include Sparafucile in Shreveport Opera’s Rigoletto, Polonius in Ruse Opera’s Hamlet, Monterone in Tulsa Opera’s Rigoletto, the Old Gypsy in Aleko for the New York City Opera and Opera Carolina as, Sparafucile in Rigoletto and Thibault in Maid of Orleans both with the New Orleans Opera, the American debut of Bottesini’s Ali Baba with Southwest Opera, Solomon in Gounod’s La Reine de Saba with Odyssey Opera, Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane with Maestro Leon Botstein at the Bard Festival, Wagner’s Rienzi at the Kennedy Center, Osmin in Die Entfuhrung as dem Serail at the Walnut Creek Festival, Basilio in The Barber of Seville with Opera Hong Kong, Angelotti in Tosca with Opera Tampa, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor for Bob Jones University, and Ramphis in Aida with Knoxville Opera, and the role of Captain in Daniel Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas with the New York City Opera.

In concert he has performed Thy Will be Done and the Verdi’s Requiem with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall, Mozart’s Requiem with the St. Louis Symphony, the Verdi Requiem with the Chautauqua Institute and with the Talahasee Symphony, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass at Carnegie Hall. For the National Symphony he has performed Handel’s Messiah, Wagner’s Rienzi, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.

Mr. Thompson has appeared internationally with the Hannover Staatsoper, Teatro Verdi Trieste, Teatro Regio Parma, Opera Kiel, the Gasteig in Munich, Wexford Opera, and La Folle Journee under such noted conductors as Edoardo Muller, Andreas Delfs, Julian Wachner, Christopher Allen, Grant Gershon, Leon Botstien, Joel Revzen, Alexander Kalajdzic, Mark Flint, Dean Williams, David Zinmin, and the late Julius Rudel.

World-premieres include Johannes Wulff-Woesten’s Die Weisse Furstin at the Munich Beinnale, Paul Dessau’s Haggadah shel Pesah with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and Ahmed Sumani in Tony Small’s Qadar at the Kennedy Center. As a permanent part of the Smithsonian Institute's Hirschorn Gallery in Washington, D.C., Mr. Thompson is featured singing “Old Man River” in occurring audio walk artwork exhibit entitled “Words Drawn in Water” by artist Janet Cardiff.