This American bass studied at the Manhattan School of Music and at Morgan State University, and has been a student of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera. His 2024-25 season includes the roles of Hunding in Wagner’s Die Walküre with both the Royal Opera House and the Santa Fe Opera, Sparafucile in Verdi’s Rigoletto with both the Metropolitan Opera and the Chicago Lyric Opera, Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with the Metropolitan Opera, Colline in Puccini’s La bohème with the Santa Fe Opera, and Banquo in Verdi’s Macbeth with the Washington National Opera. In concerts, he will perform Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 as a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano.
Last season Soloman performed the roles of Fafner in Barry Kosky’s new production of Das Rheingold at The Royal Opera House, returned to The Metropolitan Opera for performances of Timur in Turandot, and role debuts in La forza del destino as Il Marchese di Calatrava and Il Padre Guardiano. Soloman also made his house debut at Staatsoper Hamburg in Rigoletto as Sparafucile and performed the role of Hunding in the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra’s tour of Die Walküre, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. To conclude the season, Soloman returned to Santa Fe Opera to perform Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni and sang a Verdi Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms.
He makes his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.