(Les Unc's) Calland Metts

Tenor Calland Metts has distinguished himself through the beauty of his voice and the artistry of his interpretations. The Chicago Tribune praised his performance in Lincoln Opera's Don Giovanni, saying, "Calland Metts delivered Don Ottavio's two difficult arias with greater suavity, sweetness and musicality than one is apt to hear on an average night at the Met or Lyric Opera."

Other opera roles Mr. Metts has performed are Tamino in The Magic Flute with Pamiro Opera, Count Almaviva in Chicago Opera Theater's student production of The Barber of Seville, Camille in The Merry Widow with both Marin Opera and DuPage Opera Theater, Nemorino in The Elixer of Love with Opera for the Young, Eumete in Music of the Baroque's production of Monteverdi's Il Ritorno D'Ulisse, Larry / Matt in Face on the Barroom Floor with Chicago Opera Theater, Frederic in the Pirates of Penzance and Captain Tarnitz in The Student Prince with Light Opera Oklahoma, Don Curzio in Madison Opera's Le Nozze di Figaro, and most recently Luiz in Light Opera Works' The Gondoliers.

Mr. Metts also concertizes frequently throughout the United States. He made his Chicago Orchestra Hall debut singing Mendelssohn's Elijah with the Apollo Chorus, and returned to sing Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Other performances include Bach's St. John Passion and Bruckner's Requiem with Ars Viva, Haydn's Paukenmesse, Bach's Magnificat and Schubert's Mass in G with Chorus Angelorum, Handel's Messiah with the Columbus Symphony, the Utah Symphony and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Mozart's Mass in C with the Walla Walla Symphony, Orff's Carmina Burana with the Pensacola Symphony and the Battle Creek Symphony, Bach's Cantata #61 with The Chicago Baroque Ensemble, Britten's War Requiem with the Wheaton Symphony, Haydn's Creation with the St. Clement Music Series, the title role in Candide with the Grant Park Music Festival, Gilbert and Sullivan Concerts with the Symphonies of Sioux City and Colorado Springs, and Broadway Pops concerts with the Symphonies of St. Louis, Milwaukee, Grant Park and Rockford.

Future engagements for Mr. Metts include Handel's Messiah with St. Clement Chorus & Orchestra and with Omaha Symphony, a premier of Les Uncomfortables, an opera written for the award-winning Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra, Mozart's Die Zauberflote with Opera for the Young, Orff's Carmina Burana with the Elmhurst Symphony, Tony in West Side Story with the Sheboygan Symphony, Rossini's Stabat Mater with the Country Side Unitarian Church Music Series in Palatine Illinois, the narrator for Tchaikovsky's Peter and the Wolf with the Elmhurst Symphony, and the Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion with The North Shore Choral Society. Oh, and Cal wants to be your bartender.