Herman Broder in Ben Moore's Enemies, A Love Story at Palm Beach Opera. Okulitch's career first garnered national attention in the role of Schaunard in the original cast of Baz Luhrmann's Tony Award-winning Broadway production of La bohème. Other career highlights include his Teatro alla Scala debut as Theseus in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, his Washington National Opera debut in the role of Swallow in Peter Grimes which he also performed at La Scala, and the role of Creonte in Medee with Opera Genève, the role of LBJ in the world premiere of JFK with Fort Worth Opera, and General Groves in Dr. Atomic with the Santa Fe Opera. In March 2011, he released his first solo album, The New American Art Song, featuring world premiere songs by Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, Lowell Liebermann and Glen Roven who all accompany Okulitch on piano. Simultaneous with the record release, the songs were performed in a concert at Carnegie Hall, again with the composers accompanying (except Heggie). In 2016, Okulitch premiered the role of Lyndon B. Johnson in David T. Little and Royce Vavrek's JFK at Fort Worth Opera. He reprised this performance for Opéra de Montréal in January 2018. Awards Okulitch is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including first prize from the George London Foundation in 2004, a grant from the Sullivan Foundation 2004, 2nd prize from the Licia Albanese/Puccini Foundation Competition, first prize from the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation in 2004, a grant from the Singers Development Fund in 2003, 5th prize in the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition in 2002, and was a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in 2000 and 2001. He is a 2006 and 2008 recipient of a Canada Council Grant for Professional Musicians and received the Andrew White Memorial Award and a Corbett Award while a student at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Recordings Baz Luhrmann's La bohème (Highlights from the 2002 original Broadway cast) DreamWorks 2002 Le roi Arthus (Ernest Chausson) Telarc 2005 Frau Margot Thomas Pasatieri Albany Records 2007 The New American Art Song, GPR Records (2011) References External links 1976 births Living people Operatic bass-baritones 21st-century Canadian male opera singers Canadian bass-baritones University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music alumni Musicians from Calgary Musicians from Ottawa People educated at Western Canada High School