Jason duika

Most recently, baritone Jason Duika sang the title role in Verdi’s Nabucco to great acclaim with West Bay Opera in California and sang the baritone solos in Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem with MidAmerica Productions at Carnegie Hall’s 3,000-seat Isaac Stern Auditorium. In spring of 2019, he portrayed Herode in Massenet’s Herodiade with New Amsterdam Opera. In the previous February, Jason sang his first Verdi title role, Francesco Foscari in I Due Foscari with West Bay Opera. He also sang Marcello in La Boheme there, in October of 2018. Also in 2018, Jason was asked to return to his Alma Mater, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. to sing the leading baritone role of Enrico, Lucia’s brother, in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Jason is a graduate of Alma College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Music, with emphasis on Voice in 2006, Portland State University, where he received a Master of Music in Voice Performance in 2010, and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he received a Performer Diploma in Voice Performance in 2012. Jason makes his company debut with Boheme Opera NJ as Escamillo in Carmen.