UPCOMING PERFORMANCES AND TEACHING

SUMMER 2021

Ferrante joins this celebrated opera company for his 6th season on faculty as a voice teacher. 

Wolf Trap Opera has historically been the training ground for many of the finest singers on the operatic stage. Ferrante was a Filene Young Artist in 2005 and 2006 and has been a member of the faculty since 2016. 

2020-2021 Season

Ferrante returns to the Minnesota Opera

for his 4th season on faculty as voice teacher with the company's celebrated Resident Artist Program.

2020-2021 Season

Ferrante returns to the Pensacola Opera

for his 2nd season on faculty as voice teacher with the company's celebrated Artists in Residence program.

 OCTOBER 14, 2020

Ferrante joins acclaimed soprano and voice teacher Marquita Lister and host and General Director of Nashville Opera John Hoomes for a panel discussion and class with young singers from 

Tennessee State University and Fisk University.

Nashville Opera presents a series of eight masterclasses and roundtables that provide access, promote inclusion, and expand career pathways for developing African-American artists.  Nashville Opera received an Art Works award from the National Endowment for the Arts 

as well as an Innovation Grant from Opera America and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation to support this enhanced partnership.

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Ferrante leads a masterclass with several singers from the voice department at the University of Central Arkansas 

at the invitation of faculty member and tenor,  

Stephen Martin..

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions is a program designed to discover promising young opera singers and assist in the development of their careers. 

The Auditions take place in 39 Districts and 12 

Regions throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico all run locally by volunteers.

JANUARY 2021

In his sixth year leading the Classical Voice division, Ferrante carefully chooses finalists from hundreds of applications and spends a week with them in lessons, seminars, guest master teacher sessions and other events including a gala at the Gehry-designed New World Center on South Beach. The week culminates with the awarding of prizes up to $10,000 to the cream of the crop of classical singers aged 15-18. Ferrante's chosen winners go on to be freshman at the nations top conservatories and schools including Juilliard, Curtis, CCM, Indiana University, Eastman, Oberlin, Rice University and Harvard.

YoungArts is the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, which recognizes and supports America's most talented high school artists in the visual, literary, and performing arts and includes nominating future Presidential Scholars in the Arts.

FEBRUARY 2022

Ferrante returns to Opera Omaha in one of his most successful roles, Beadle Bamford, for a new production of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.

Of his performances as the Beadle at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the L'Informazione di Modena said 

"Jason Ferrante left everyone with their jaws dropped by transforming the innocuous parlor songs into fireworks, alternating between his beautiful tenor voice and his stupendous falsetto soprano, complete with floated high notes and ending on a baritonal low G."

MAY 2022

Ferrante returns to a frequently-performed role in a new production for his debut with Tulsa Opera