American bass, Erik Kroncke, has a learned role repertoire of nearly 60 different roles, of which he has performed over 30 in the past seven years. He has appeared as the Commendatore, and Maesetto in Don Giovanni, Il Grande Inquisitore, Un Frate and Fillipo in Don Carlo, Colline, Alcindoro, Benoit in La Boheme, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, Monterrone and Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Count Capulet, Le Duc and Friar Lawerence in Romeo et Juliette, Sarastro and Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte, Don Alfonso in Cosi Fan Tutti, Doctor Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Pistola in Falstaff, Hunding in Die Walküre, Fafner in Das Rheingold, Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata, Baron Zeta in The Merry Widow and William Jennings Bryan in The Ballad of Baby Doe.

Erik has been described as “…one of the fastest rising young stars on the American opera scene today… the voice we have all been waiting on… remarkably like Kurt Moll and Matti Salminen.”

He has appeared with Chautauqua Opera, Natchez Opera Festival, Brooklyn Opera, Bronx Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Opera Colorado, New York Opera Forum and Opera Theater of the Rockies.

His symphonic and oratorio performances include engagements with the New York Philharmonic, Danbury Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony and the American Classical Orchestra. He was the 2002 and 2003 winner of the Friedrich Schorr Vocal Competition and was an Apprentice Artist at Chautauqua and Artist in Residence at Natchez Opera Festival. He is a native of Colorado and currently resides in Connecticut.