About Johan Hartman

"As the comedic master of the house, Johan Hartman revealed a large, dark bass-baritone that immediately made one sit up and take notice” - South Florida Classical Review

“Hartman is an exciting new voice on the opera scene, both as a dramatic performer and as a composer” -- Patricia Silver

Johan Hartman is a professional bass-baritone, teacher, and composer. He holds an MM in vocal performance from CCM and a BM from New England Conservatory. He has worked with numerous professional opera companies, most recently performing the role of Colline in Florida l'opera and Zarzuela's production of La Boheme and the role of Uberto in Mostly Baroque's production of La Serva Padrona. He has also worked as a young artist at Sarasota Opera in Sarasota Florida under the tutelage of Maestro DeRenzi.

His list of operatic roles is extensive. Recent performances include Gus in John Musto’s Later the Same Evening, Pascual in Arietta’s Marina, and the Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. He has also appeared in other Mozart works—portraying Leporello in Don Giovanni and Sarastro in The Magic Flute—as well as roles in the operas of Richard Strauss, such as Truffaldin in Ariadne auf Naxos. His experience spans from some of the earliest operas ever composed—such as Seneca in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea—to contemporary premieres, including The Hunter in Timothy Ayres-Kerr’s Game of Werewolf.

As a composer, he has written three song-cycles, Blood and the Moon, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, and Love and Death, which are settings of poetry by W.B. Yeats, Robert Browning, and Lord Byron respectively. He also set part one of Yeats’ epic poem, The Wanderings of Oisin. Most recently he has written a one-act chamber opera entitled The Signal Man, with a libretto based on Charles Dickens’ short-story of the same name. He is currently working on an operatic adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis.