adam flowers
Operatic Lyric Tenor. Teaching Artist. Writer.
about me
Adam has performed principal tenor roles in opera houses throughout North America, Hawaii, and Japan. In July 2006 he completed a five-year artist-in-residency for Opera San Jose, performing over 32 roles. He has performed with the San Francisco Opera Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and was the tenor section leader at San Francisco’s St. Ignatius Church Choir from 2014 to 2020. Adam is a certified Music Together™ teacher, teaching music to infants and toddlers in Marin County and San Francisco. He is currently the Program Coordinator for Pacific Actors & Singers Workshop, and a teaching artist for the San Francisco Opera Guild’s Book To Bravo educational program with students in the 5th-12th grades. He is a voice student of Sheri Greenawald and Deborah Benedict.
Adam has written feature articles for San Francisco Opera's production programs and the SF Opera Board of Directors quarterly newsletter Behind the Curtain. He has also written marketing copy and promotional copy for West Edge Opera in Berkeley, CA and served as their press relations associate. Writing examples are available upon request.
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performance, teaching, and life
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the word on the street
Reviews and Endorsements
In Opera San Jose's Production of L'Elisir D'Amore:
"The most well-deployed voice, however, belongs to Flowers, a resonant, through-the-mask lyric tenor possessed of that enigmatic ear-catching quality that the Italians call squillo. He also sports a completely brakeless passage to head voice, allowing him to slip into suddenly soft, high tones for effects both comic and poignant; the latter is highlighted in Nemorino's plaintive song of hope, "Una furtiva lagrima" ("A furtive tear"). Flowers adorns the cadenza at the end of the famed aria with lovely silences..."
Michael Vaughn, San Jose Metro
