Bass Griffen Hogan Tracy is from Golden, Colorado and will be making numerous debuts in the 2023-2024 season. This season Griffen will sing the bass solo in Mozart Requiem, Colline in La Boheme (Opera in the Heights), Ashby in La Fanciulla del West (North Carolina Opera), and the bass solo in Beethoven’s 9th with the Santa Fe Symphony. 22-23 highlights were Sparafucile in Rigoletto (Amarillo Opera), Commendatore in Don Giovanni (AVA), and Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor (Cincinnati Opera). He is a graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia where he performed Colline in La Boheme, Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin, Antonio in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Sam in Un Ballo in Maschera. Griffen has been an Apprentice Artist with the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Central City Opera. He is a two-time regional finalist in the Laffont Competition and won top prize in the 2023 Denver Lyric Opera Guild competition. Griffen holds a B.M. from the University of Denver and a M.M. from the University of Tennessee Knoxville.