Daniel O’Hearn

Originally from Illinois, tenor Daniel O’Hearn was a 2022 National Finalist in the Met’s Laffont Competition, now in his second year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. During the Met’s 2024–25 season, he will sing Ruiz in Il Trovatore and the Master of Ceremonies in The Queen of Spades. This season, he will also cover the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and sing the role of Matteo in Arabella with Deutsche Oper Berlin. Past engagements at the Met include his debut role of the First Guard in The Magic Flute and covering Benvolio in Roméo et Juliette. Recent operatic engagements include Roméo in Roméo et Juliette and the Duke of Mantua at Vashon Opera, Steuermann in Der Fliegende Holländer at Pittsburgh Opera, Cecil in Roberto Devereux at Washington Concert Opera, and covered the role of Le Remendado in Carmen at Santa Fe Opera. As a member of Utah Opera’s Resident Artist Program, he appeared as Bill in Jonathan Dove's Flight and Spoletta in Tosca, while also covering Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Frederic in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. He has performed in several concert works including Stravinsky's Pulcinella and Handel's Messiah with the Utah Symphony under the baton of Thierry Fischer. In addition to his success in the Laffont Competition, he won second place in the 2024 International Belvedere Singing Competition, top prize at the 2024 Saengerbund German Vocal Competition, first place in the 2019 Kleinman Competition, and received the 2019 American Prize Chicago Oratorio Award. He is an alumnus of the Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist Program, the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artist Program, and Utah Opera Resident Artist Program and holds degrees in music from DePaul University.