After his debut under the baton of Lorin Maazel as a part of the Castleton Festival in which he sang the baritone arias of the Gershwins’ masterpiece Porgy and Bess John Fulton became a well-known artist on the European scene. He performed the role of Jake in Porgy and Bess with the Royal Danish Opera and was included in the 2014 Austrian and Luxembourg tour of New York Harlem Productions’ Porgy and Bess in the same role. Other recent engagements include concert performances of Porgy and Bess with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson and the Porgy and Bess concert suite with the Stamford Symphony Orchestra.
During the 2007-2008 season he debuted as a member of the New York Harlem Productions Inc. touring production of Porgy and Bess. With this company Mr. Fulton has performed the roles of Jake, Crown, and Jim in numerous opera houses across Europe, including the Staatstheater Hannover, the Carré Theater in Amsterdam, and the Strasbourg Theater. Mr. Fulton also completed two seasons with the Arizona Opera in the Marian Roose Pulin Young Artist Studio.
Other operatic engagements include Masetto in Don Giovanni, Sciarrone in Tosca, Cappadocian in Salome, Schaunard in La Bohème, and Fiorello/Police Sergeant Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Arizona Opera, Morales in Carmen and Crown in Porgy and Bess at Tulsa Opera, Fiorello Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Michigan Opera Theatre, and the role of Marullo in Rigoletto in concert with the Westfield Symphony Orchestra in New Jersey.
Mr. Fulton has performed Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Marquis d’Obigny in La Traviata with Opera Colorado, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro for Opera Theatre of the Rockies, and Count Ceprano in Rigoletto and David in A Hand of Bridge with Berkshire Opera. He has additionally taken part in several outreach projects for Cincinnati Opera including the part of Robert Garner in Richard Danielpour’s Margaret Garner. Mr. Fulton has studied voice with Metropolitan Opera baritone Mark Oswald, has collaborated with conductors Steuart Bedford and Hal France, and has been directed by Catherine Malfitano, Ken Cazan, and James Robinson.