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JJ Hudson, bass-baritone

JJ Hudson, bass-baritone

JJ Hudson has performed more than twenty opera/lyric theater roles including: Leporello (Don Giovanni), Olin Blitch (Susannah), Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd), Giorgio (Passion), Shaunard and Colline (La Bohème), Grenvil and Douphol (La Traviata), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), and Selim (Il Turco in Italia). He has appeared with Eastman Opera Theater, Rochester Opera Factory, Empire State Lyric Theater, Tacoma Opera (WA), Buffalo Opera Unlimited, Music by the Lake (WI), and the Centro Studi Opera Festival (Urbania, Italy).

Hudson is currently on the faculties of SUNY-Oswego and Nazareth College. Hudson has also taught on the faculties of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Concord University (WV).

Hudson holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (Voice Performance and Literature) from the Eastman School of Music, where he also attained a Master of Music in Opera Studies-Stage Direction. In addition he holds a Master of Arts (Voice Performance) from the University of Iowa, and a Bachelor of Music (Composition and Voice Performance) from Stetson University (FL).

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