Carl DuPont is an artist, innovator, and educator dedicated to Transformational Inclusion and Care of the Professional Voice. His “rich, nuanced baritone” (Columbus Underground) has held center stage in performances at The Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Carolina, Opera Columbus, First Coast Opera, Toledo Opera, Opera Saratoga, Sarasota Opera, Cedar Rapids Opera, El Palacio de Bellas Artes, Opera Company of Brooklyn, The IN Series, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and Leipzig Opera. Recent roles include Hawkins Fuller in Fellow Travelers, Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville, and Leporello in Don Giovanni. His articles can be found in The Laryngoscope and the Voice and Speech Review. DuPont can be heard on the world premiere recordings of the Caldara Mass in A Major, The Death of Webern, and his solo album, The Reaction. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music (BM), Indiana University (MM), and the University of Miami (DMA), he currently serves on the faculties of the Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute, the Carey School of Business executive education division, and the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival; he is the co-artistic lead for the Kennedy Center’s Washington National Opera Initiative. This season he makes a role and company debut as Stephen Kumalo in Lost in the Stars with the Annapolis Opera Company, returns to Bach in Baltimore as the bass soloist in St. John’s Passion, sings the baritone solo in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, and reprises the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah for the Baltimore Choral Society.