Praised by Parterre Box for his “glorious outpouring of tone” Colorado bass Griffen Hogan Tracy is making numerous debuts with companies in the 2023/24 season. Highlights include Colline La Boheme with Opera in the Heights, Ashby La Fanciulla del West with North Carolina Opera and the bass soloist in Beethoven’s 9th with the Santa Fe Symphony. Griffen joined the Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Artist for the 2022 season, covering the role of Manuel Toulon in Huang Ro’s new opera M. Butterfly and was featured in the Apprentice Scenes program as Phillipe II Don Carlos. In the 22/23 season Griffen headlined A&E Atlanta’s premier of Our Sacred World by Amy Leventhal and appeared with Amarillo Opera as Sparafucile Rigoletto and Cincinnati Opera as Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor. A graduate of the acclaimed Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, Griffen performed Prince Gremin Eugene Onegin, Colline La Boheme, Sam Un ballo in maschera (C-19) and Antonio Le nozze di Figaro and Viktor Ullmanns’s Liederbuch des Hafis.

During his AVA residency Griffen was featured in a wide variety of recitals and operas, performing repertoire by Shostakovich, Berg, Rachmaninoff, Haydn, and Handel, as well as Mozart and Verdi. Griffen has made numerous concert and operatic debuts around the country including bass soloist work with the Colorado Repertory Singers Mozart’s Requiem and Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.  In the summer of 2019, Griffen was a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, where he sang the role of 3rd Familiari in The Coronation of Poppea in addition to covering the roles of Seneca in The Coronation of Poppea and Sparafucile in Rigoletto.

In the 2017-2018 season he made several role debuts at UT Knoxville most prominently as Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Eduard Casaubon in Allan Sheerer’s new opera Middlemarch in Spring, a performance praised for its “insidious maliciousness” (Arts Knoxville). Griffen closed the 2017-2018 season by returning to Central City Opera’s Bofils-Stanton Artist Training Program, where he sang Un Vecchio Zingaro in their mainstage production of Verdi’s Il trovatore in addition to scenes including Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale), The Pirate King (The Pirates of Penzance), and Dansker (Billy Budd).  

Comfortable in a wide variety of repertoire, Griffen has notably sung Neptune in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Reverend John Hale in Robert Ward’s The Crucible, Leporello in Don Giovanni with the Yakima Symphony, Emile de Becque in South Pacific, Sir John Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Dr. Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro. 

Griffen is a two-time District winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Regional Finalist Encouragement Award recipient (2019) and Denver Lyric Opera Competition grand finalist.  Griffen holds an M.M. from the University of Tennessee and a B.M. from the Lamont School of Music.