• Role: Jack Torrance

• Directed by John Hoomes

• Conducted by Dean Williamson

• Nashville Opera

World Premiere

• Role: Richard Loving (Alt cast and cover)

  • Performing May 10th, 2025 at the Carpenter Center in Richmond, VA

• Conductor: Adam Turner

• Director: Denyce Graves

• Virginia Opera

Company Debut

• “Baritone Robert Wesley Mason superbly portrayed the mental and emotional instability of Jack.” -Classical Voice North America

• “Mason captures the essence of a man whose demons—his character’s abusive father among them—warp him from the family man he used to be.” -Willamette Week

• “Jack Torrance, convincingly sung and acted by baritone Robert Wesley Mason … his character … compelling and well developed.” -Oregon Arts Watch

• Role: Jack Torrance

• Conductor: Damien Geter

• Director: Erin Neff

• Portland Opera

World Premiere

• Role: Johan (Cover)

• Conductor: Christopher Rountree

• Director: Thaddeus Strassberger

• National Sawdust

Company Debut

• Role: Belcore

• Conductor: Alexandra Enyart

• Director: Eve Summer

• Opera Grand Rapids

• Role: Forester (cover)

• Conductor: Roberto Kalb

• Director: Yuval Sharon

• Detroit Opera

• Role: John Cree

• Conductor: Kirk Severtson

• Director: Gregory Keller

• Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

• “Robert Wesley Mason stood out with one of the evening’s
  quieter pieces—Billy’s imprisonment aria from Britten’s Billy Budd.”
  -Wall Street Journal

• “Mason’s sound — flint-hard one moment, voluptuous the next — and searing dramatic intensity provided an ideal foil…His bright wit was similarly evident when he took a stage lap on a bicycle and punctuated his Billy Budd with a billy club.”
  -Classical Voice North America

• “Baritone Robert Wesley Mason added an extra dose of humor and dramatic flair…”

  -Runner Magazine

• Role: Baritone

• Director: Yuval Sharon

• Detroit Opera

• Piano Vocal Workshop

• Role: Richard Loving

• Conductor: Adam Turner

• Director: Denyce Graves

• Virginia Opera

• Loving v. Virginia, the opera

• Role: Vocalist

• Conductor: Yaniv Segal

• Director: Bill Barclay

• Renegade Opera

• “Robert Wesley Mason was an articulate, explosive, first-rate Jack, with his dark, robust baritone and assured physicality.” -Opera News

• “For Jack, here strongly sung and acted by baritone Robert Wesley Mason, Moravec provides music that becomes more jagged and discordant over the course of the opera, as Jack’s state of mind goes from hopeful to deranged.” -San Francisco Classical Voice

• “Energetic baritone Robert Wesley Mason portrays Jack, and in addition to his passionate singing, he is tasked with acting a dramatic role that at first is a smiling, loving family man but that descends into rage.  He accomplishes the task.” -Berkshire Fine Arts

• “In the leading roles, baritone Robert Wesley Mason and soprano Kearstin Piper Brown conveyed Jack and Wendy’s deepening plight with strong, shapely vocalism.” -San Francisco Chronicle

• “Baritone Robert Wesley Mason as Jack Torrance has a powerful sound … and had impressive stamina for this marathon of a role; he was onstage for nearly all of the opera.” -The Opera Tattler

• “Jack’s transformation from daddy to baddy was superbly and humanely characterized by Robert Wesley Mason.” -Aisle Seat Review

• Role: Jack Torrance (Company and role debut)

• Conductor: Nicole Paiement

• Director: Brian Staufenbiel

• Opera Paralléle

• Role: Billy Bigelow

• Conductor: Cody Martin

• Director: Greg Ganakas

• Pensacola Opera

• “A University of Michigan student orchestra will perform the original musical pieces interspersed with lines, spoken by the singers, from testimonies and interviews with members of the Auschwitz I men’s orchestra after the war. Silent for more than seventy years, the voices and stirring melodies of those imprisoned at Auschwitz will be brought to life in the Museum’s Edmond J. Safra Hall.”

• Conducted by Oriol Sans

• Museum of Jewish Heritage

• ”Mason brought robustness to moments as the Count that revealed how great a Figaro he would be in a full production.” -VAN Magazine

• Role: Figaro

• Role Debut

• Directed by Yuval Sharon

• Conducted by Christopher Rountree

• Michigan Opera Theater

• This show has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Role: Pleasure

• World Premiere opera by Kate Soper

• Company and role debut

• Directed by Michael Rau

• Wet Ink Ensemble

• Peak Performances

• ”We first see Wotan (the barrel-chested Robert Wesley Mason,
  with a voice to match) …” -The New York Times

• “The entire cast, all of whom play multiple roles, are excellent, with characterizations changing at the drop of a hat….Especially effective [is] Mason as Wotan…” -Epoch Times

• ”Robert Wesley Mason [is a] chameleon.“
  -Woman Around Town

• ”They each bring a great deal of hilarity and good-heartedness to the 4 to 6 characters each of ’em inhabit.” -Manhattan Digest

• ”…marvelous cast, who switch characters on a dime…all brought good voices to the fold…”
  -Broadway World

• Role: Actor #4 (Wotan/Gunther/Hagen)

• Directed by Eric Einhorn and Katherine M. Carter

• Musical direction by Emily Senturia

• Company and role debut

• On Site Opera

• Hannah Before

• Company debut

• Directed by Amy Hutchinson

• Conducted by Cody Martin

• Pensacola Opera