Wright Moore

Wright has just completed his 8th season as a member of Metropolitan Opera’s Extra Chorus.  

Wright Moore has performed with opera companies in the United States and Europe, having made his U.S. professional debut with the Opera Theater of Saint Louis as Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos and his European debut as Sam in Susannah with the Vienna Kammeroper. 

Highlights from previous work in opera include: Second King in Die Liebe der Danae with the Salzburg Festival (Salzburg, Austria); Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Camille in The Merry Widow, and Kudrjasch in Katya Kabanovawith the Luzerner Theater (Luzern, Switzerland); Pong in Turandot with Virginia Opera (Norfolk, VA), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with the Circulo Portuense de Opera (Porto, Portugal) and the Mississippi Opera (Jackson, MS); both Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress,and Sam Polk in Floyd’s Susannah with the Wiener Kammeroper (Vienna, Austria); Matteo in Arabella with the Braunschweig Staatstheater (Braunschweig, Germany); Leukippos in Daphne for the Opera du Rhin (Strasbourg, France); Tamino in Die Zauberflötefor Teatro Lirico d’Europa (Madrid, Spain); and Hooker in the World Premiere of Emmeline by Tobias Picker with the Santa Fe Opera (Santa Fe, New Mexico), featured on PBS’s Great Performances Series.  Past concert engagements include:  Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and Bizet’s Te Deum with the Luzern Symphony in Luzern’s KKL Concert Hall in Luzern, Switzerland; Carmina Burana with the Sioux City Symphony; and the Beethoven 9th Symphony with the New Jersey Choral Society and the Orchestra Nexus under the direction of Eric Dale Knapp, conductor.  

Wright is also a painter, holding membership with the Ridgewood Art Institute, the Art Students League of New York, the Garrison Art Center, and the Salmagundi Club of New York.  Wright holds a BA from Amherst College and a Masters in Music from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Learn a singing technique that is grounded in the concept of vocal closure, the consideration of breath compression and the concepts of vowel contouring.  I am a working opera singer, but classical concepts can be applied and attenuated to other styles.  I view singing as an interpretation of tone through a coordination of vocal closure, space, and vowel.  Learn to monitor your voice from the larynx and rely less on concepts of "placement". Learn the correct "tilt" of the larynx and relate the resulting dimension of "cover" to vowel harmonization and proper tongue coordination.  Learn the importance of maintaining an ear for speech formant while handling the voice in a dynamic way so as to sing with as large of sound as possible.

Education: Amherst College BA; New England Conservatory of Music MM

In person: $100.00 per hour (pianist not included)
Virtual: $75.00 per hour