Canadian baritone James Westman has performed in many of the world’s leading opera houses, concert halls and recital venues, earning acclaim for his versatility, musicality and compelling stage presence. Over a career spanning more than four decades, he has sung more than 100 operatic roles and performed extensively in opera, oratorio, art song and concert repertoire. Westman’s signature role as Germont in Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata has been heard in more than 300 performances with companies including San Francisco Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, Houston Grand Opera, Opéra Bordeaux, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, L.A. Opera, the Vienna State Opera, Santa Fé Opera, Vancouver Opera, L’Opéra de Montréal and English National Opera. His operatic repertoire also includes Rigoletto, Scarpia in Tosca, Nabucco and Sir John A. Macdonald in Harry Somers’ Louis Riel. Recent highlights include Carmen with Manitoba Opera; Silent Night with Calgary Opera; Messiah and Carmina Burana with the New York Philharmonic; Nabucco and Tosca with L’Opéra de Québec; Johannes Brahms’ Requiem and Carmina Burana with leading Canadian orchestras. Westman has premièred numerous new works, including Kevin Puts’ Silent Night, André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Richard Danielpour’s Margaret Garner and Bramwell Tovey’s The Inventor. His recordings have received four Juno Awards and two Grammy Award nominations. A passionate advocate for the next generation of singers, Westman is also an active vocal mentor and masterclass clinician at universities, conservatories and professional training programs around the world. He is a professor of voice at Western University.