Baritone David Kravitz has been widely praised for the “power, character” and “resonance and fluency” of his singing (Boston Globe; Opera News), his “brilliantly natural” acting and “perfect comic timing” (Boston Globe; St. Louis Post-Dispatch), his “eloquent” and “superb” diction (Boston Phoenix; Boston Herald), and his “drop-dead musicianship” (Boston Globe) on both the operatic and the concert stages.  Mr. Kravitz performed in the 2006-2007 season under the baton of James Levine in the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s production of Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron, and he joined the roster of New York City Opera in the 2005-2006 season, responsible for the leading role of Olivier in Strauss’s Capriccio. 

In the 2007-2008 season he returned to the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Levine for Berlioz’s Les Troyens, to Opera Boston for Handel’s Semele, to Opera Theatre of St. Louis for Martin y Soler’s Una Cosa Rara, and to Boston Baroque for Purcell’s King Arthur. Mr. Kravitz joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under Bernard Haitink; he performed Handel's Messiah in Carnegie Hall; he joined the Lincoln (NE) Symphony under Edward Polochick for Bach’s St. Matthew Passion; and he returned to Emmanuel Music for Bach’s B Minor Mass, to the New England Philharmonic for Mahler’s Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen, and to the Cantata Singers for Carmina Burana and for the Boston premieres of Kurt Weill’s Flight of Lindbergh and Charles Fussell’s High Bridge.

Mr. Kravitz will sing Prince Ottokar in Der Freischütz with Opera Boston in October of 2008.

The 2006-2007 season's opera roles included Ko-Ko in The Mikado with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the title role in Wozzeck with the New England Philharmonic; his other opera roles include Leporello and the title role in Don Giovanni, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, and Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore.

Mr. Kravitz’s concert performances include Handel’s Messiah in both Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, his “sensational” Boston Symphony Hall debut with Grant Llewellyn and the Handel & Haydn Society as Apollo in Handel’s Apollo e Dafne, and solo appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under Roger Norrington, Boston Baroque under Martin Pearlman, the Cantata Singers under David Hoose, and Emmanuel Music’s renowned Bach Cantata Series under Craig Smith.  As a chamber musician, Mr. Kravitz this season presented Brahms’ Neue Liebeslieder Walzer with the Boston Chamber Music Society; an all-Mozart concert with renowned soprano Lisa Saffer; and works by Samuel Barber and Charles Fussell with Boston’s Fibonacci String Quartet.  This season,

Mr. Kravitz’s commitment to new music has led to his presentation of world or regional premieres of numerous contemporary works, including Edward Cohen’s opera The Bridal Night and Andy Vores’ song cycle Goback Goback with Collage New Music (the latter was named one of the best classical performances of 2003 by the Boston Phoenix); John Harbison’s Four Psalms with Cantata Singers (recently released on CD by New World); Tod Machover’s Resurrection with Boston Lyric Opera; James Primosch’s Songs and Dances from “The Tempest” and Thomas Whitman’s opera The Black Swan with Philadelphia’s Orchestra 2001; and George Rochberg’s Sacred Song of Reconciliation with Boston Modern Orchestra Project.  Mr. Kravitz is also active as a recording artist and, in addition to Harbison’s Four Psalms, can be heard on Koch International Classics’ recordings of Bach’s Cantata BWV 20 and St. John Passion (1725 version) with Emmanuel Music, and on New World’s recording of Peter Child’s Estrella with Cantata Singers.