Tenor Aaron Short has sung leading and featured roles with numerous national and international opera companies and symphonies, including Dallas Opera, Nashville Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Lyric Unlimited, Knoxville Opera, Nashville Opera, Knoxville Symphony, and the Festival Lyrique-en-Mer in France. He fulfilled young artist residencies with Portland Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, and Florentine Opera in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Some of his favorite roles he has performed include Sam in Susannah, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Bégearss in Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, and Jimmy Mahoney in Kurt Weill's Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, where his performance was hailed by the New York Times as "simultaneously subtle and shattering.” Aaron is an alumnus of Wichita State University and the Manhattan School of Music, and he recently completed his Doctor of Musical Arts at Northwestern University in 2024.
Selected Scholarship
DMA Voice & Opera Performance, 2024 - Northwestern University
MM Voice Performance, 2013 - Manhattan School of Music
BM Voice Performance, 2011 - Wichita State University