Timothy McDevitt

Timothy McDevitt, Vocal Arts Faculty: Related Studies in Vocal Arts

American baritone, Timothy McDevitt, has established himself among the industry’s most versatile performers of today. His unique ability to thrive in the worlds of both opera and musical theatre is clearly represented by his diverse schedule throughout the United States and abroad.

In the 2022-23 season, Timothy joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera covering in the new production of Terrence Blanchard’s Champion. This season also includes William The Fall of the House of Usher at OrpheusPdx, Maximilian Candide with the Cincinnati Symphony, concerts with the Winston Salem Symphony, and performances of his original cabaret Erwartung //

{Expectation} for The Metropolitan Opera Club, Ludlow House, The Century Association, and the Park Avenue Armory Avant-Garde. The accompanying short film is also screened at the Long Beach Opera and Opera Company of Philadelphia film festivals.

The 2019-20 season included his debut in Germany as Harry Easter in Street Scene at Oper Köln, Maximillian in Candide with the Philadelphia Orchestra alongside actor Bradley Cooper, Call Me Madam with NY City Center Encores, Bruce Ismay in Titanic in Greenville, Zelenka’s Missa Omnium Sanctorum with the American Classical Orchestra, and a return to Ravinia for the revival of Bernstein’s Mass with the Chicago Symphony, later broadcast on PBS Great Performances. He was also seen in season two, episode six of Dickinson on AppleTV+

On the opera stage he has starred in Les Mamelles de Tirésias at both the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, L’Isola Disabitata at Alice Tully Hall, Zaide with the New World Symphony, La Fanciulla del West with the New York City Opera, and Les Enfants Terribles with the North Carolina Opera. His numerous theatre and concert credits include the Emmy Award winning Carousel for Live from Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic, Guys and Dolls at Carnegie Hall, West Side Story with the NHK Symphony in Tokyo as well as the Philadelphia Orchestra, South Pacific at Ash Lawn, The Secret Garden at Baltimore Center Stage/Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Dreyfus Affair at BAM, Thou Swell with the NY City Ballet, Bernstein’s Mass with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and several appearances with NY City Center Encores; Brigadoon, Me & My Girl, The New Yorkers, and Lady be Good. His discography includes Mass on the Deutsche Grammophon label, Brigadoon and Lady be Good with Ghostlight Records, and Roberta on New World Records. Timothy is a native of Reading, Pennsylvania and holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Juilliard.