Italian-American tenor, Jordan Costa, is an alumnus of the Yale and Eastman Schools of Music, and young artist programs, including Music Academy of the West (2019-2021), Glimmerglass (2022), Sarasota Opera (their 2022/23 season), Central City Opera (2023), Virginia Opera (2023), and Nashville Opera (2024). In September of 2021, Jordan made his professional debut as Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore with Opera in Williamsburg. Jordan reprised the role of Nemorino with Yale opera in May of 2022. During the 2022/23 season, Jordan covered Paolino in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Armand in Massenet’s Thérèse, as a studio artist with Sarasota Opera. Jordan also sang his first title role as a returning guest artist in Yale Opera’s production of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory. This past season, Jordan performed Conte Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, as a Virginia Opera Herndon Foundation Emerging Artist. He then covered Tamino, and performed as Monostatos, in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, as a Nashville Opera Mary Ragland Emerging Artist. This summer, Jordan is revisiting Almaviva, covering the role as an Opera Theatre of St. Louis Gerdine Young Artist. Jordan studies with renowned teacher Gerald Martin Moore.
