Hawaiian baritone making his mark at Chicago’s Lyric Opera

There are baritones who sing opera, and then there are “Verdi baritones.” Quinn Kelsey has no doubts about which camp he is in. “I’m definitely a Verdi baritone,” Kelsey said in an interview last weekend at his home here. Fitting into that category requires a voice of a certain size and power, he said, but something more as well: “It’s a quality one has to have in the voice, a kind of a noble timbre. It has to have a very large space, what you would think of when you think of how a king would sing.”

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