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Bass Seth Malkin has performed a wide variety of roles in Opera and Music Theater, and has appeared with such companies as The Opera Orchestra of New York, Santa Fe Opera, New Orleans Opera, and the Seattle Opera, where he most recently sang in Ariadne auf Naxos, and Fanciulla Del West, both in 2004. In fall of 2003, he was Timur in Turandot, and Zuniga in Carmen at the New York City Opera.

He appeared in Germany for the 1999-2000 season, where he sang a variety of roles at the Stadttheatre Regensburg including Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro, and a premier staging of the Bach St. John Passion. In June of 1999, Mr. Malkin made his Carnegie hall Debut, singing Beethoven’s Mass in C.

Mr. Malkin has been presented in New York recital on the Noonday Concert Series at St Paul’s Chapel, Wall Street, performing Ned Rorem’s song cycle, Flight for Heaven, on which Mr. Rorem coached him.

Noted for his grace onstage, Seth comes by his poise honestly: Trained at the New York School of Ballet, he danced professionally in productions of Petrouchka, with American Ballet Theater, and The Nutcracker with The Cleveland Ballet, and was a soloist with the New Orleans, and Tampa Ballets.

A veteran of several Broadway shows, he has appeared with Angela Lansbury and Madeleine Kahn, and was seen in the 1997 Tony Awards Telecast with the Broadway cast of Candide. He is featured on that cast album. He has also pursued an interest in liturgical music, leading a Wilkes Barre congregation many times in worship throughout the Jewish High Holidays.

Mr. Malkin became a full-time member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus in 2005.