About

Tenor Zachary Taylor has been lauded for his “honeyed, pliant tenor” and “sincere” portrayals. He has held residencies with several companies, including Des Moines Metro Opera, Pensacola Opera, Nashville Opera and currently the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee, where he is a Baumgartner Studio Artist. Zachary’s most recent performances include a celebrated portrayal of Justice Antonin Scalia in Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg with Florentine Opera, a return to the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra as the tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, and as the lovesick sailor Ralph Rackstraw in Nashville Opera’s H.M.S. Pinafore. He has also performed with Opera Carolina, the Charlotte Symphony, the Greensboro Choral Society, the Pensacola Choral Society, and Music on Site, among others.

As a member of the Baumgartner Studio with Florentine Opera for the 2025-26 season, Zachary will cover Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, sing the roles of Nathanaël and Spalanzani and cover the titular role in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and sing Spoletta and cover Cavaradossi in Tosca. He will also perform in a touring children’s rendition of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and in numerous outreach concerts and events.