Described as "rumbling and sumptuously lush" and “hauntingly striking,” bass-baritone HANS TASHJIAN continues to expand his repertoire with opera companies throughout the country. During the 2022-2023 season, Mr. Tashjian was slated to rejoin Teatro Nuovo in the title role of Rossini’s Maometto II (COVID19 cancellation) and returned to the Metropolitan Opera, covering Flemish Deputy 2 in Don Carlo and making his house debut going on as Count Ceprano in Rigoletto. He also joined Opera Baltimore as Méphistophélès in Faust. In the summer of 2023, he sang Callistene in Poliuto with Teatro Nuovo, and in the fall, Mr. Tashjian joined Opera Essentia for several performances as the title role in a one-act distillation of Imeneo and presented the world premiere of John A. Sichel’s song cycle Paradoxides. He is also a singer-in-residence with American Opera Projects Composers & the Voice . 

Further credits include joining Teatro Nuovo as the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Bartolo in The Barber of Seville and Paul in their original holiday show Once Upon a Winter, Houston Grand Opera as Billy in the world premiere of The Snowy Day, the Metropolitan Opera as the cover of Député Flamand 2 in Don Carlos and cover of Pit Singer bass 1 and 2 in Brett Dean’s Hamlet, and Opera Praktikos and Opera Essentia as Zoroastro in a co-production of Handel’s Orlando. During the 2019-2020 season, Mr. Tashjian sang the title role of Aleko and el Capitán in Florencia en el Amazonas with Yale Opera, debuted at the Charleston Symphony as the bass soloist in the Messiah, and debuted the role of Enrico in Anna Bolena with Baltimore Concert Opera. In the spring of 2021, Mr. Tashjian returned to Sarasota Opera to sing the roles of Batone in L’inganno felice, Uberto in La serva padrona, and Gaudenzio in Il signor Bruschino. 

A frequent concert soloist, Mr. Tashjian has appeared as featured soloist with the Charleston Symphony, Queens Symphony Orchestra, Chelsea Symphony, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Bach Chorus of Pittsburgh, the Bach Music Festival of Canada, the Canadian Chamber Orchestra of NYC, in concert at New York University's La Maison Française, and as basso profondo and soloist with the New Jersey Conservatory's performance of the Rachmaninoff Vespers. In the spring of 2017 he performed Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Canadian Chamber Orchestra of New York City at the Recital Hall of SUNY Purchase, and in the Spring of 2019, he reprised the piece with the Jackson Symphony. Mr. Tashjian is an alumnus of the Yale School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and Carnegie Mellon University.