Soloist, Tenor

Jamez McCorkle

American

Jamez McCorkle is an American tenor. He came to wide notice in the title role of Omar, an opera about the enslaved Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said, which was first staged at the Spoleto Festival USA in 2022 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2023. He went on to sing the part in other American productions of the work, among them in Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco.

Performs in

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  1. Kirill Petrenko conducts Richard Wagner’s “Walküre”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Die Walküre in Concert: Kirill Petrenko Continues the Ring. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  2. Die Walküre, Osterfestspiele Salzburg Cited in Die Walküre in Concert: Kirill Petrenko Continues the Ring. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  3. Jamez McCorkle, Wikipedia Cited in Die Walküre in Concert: Kirill Petrenko Continues the Ring. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  4. Jamez McCorkle, Royal Ballet and Opera Cited in Die Walküre in Concert: Kirill Petrenko Continues the Ring. Accessed 7 October 2026.