Critical acclaim of Ryan’s performances, interviews & press features
“Ryan McKinny, as the Dutchman, moved through an enormous range of emotions with vocal power and control, and a great deal of theatrical grace.” Journal Sentinel “Bass-baritone Ryan McKinny gave the title role appropriate angst and gloom with his richly dark voice and expressive way with a phrase.” Shepherd Express“
“Soutenu par une masse de 24 figurants, c’est le baryton-basse au fort charisme, l’Américain Ryan McKinny, qui se mesure au redoutable cap vocal à atteindre pour rendre l’ampleur du personnage pivot de Wotan. Le chanteur avouera avoir travaillé à ce rôle depuis un bon dix ans maintenant.” Sors tu “Les voix, dont celle Ryan McKinny (Wotan)...
“Baritone Ryan McKinny and soprano Tamara Wilson, once students at the Aspen Opera Center, demonstrated how they have fashioned major careers with beautifully shaped singing and attention to text.”
“McKinny showed the audience the human side of the scientific genius and I doubt that operagoers who saw his portrayal will soon forget it… By this time, McKinny as Oppenheimer is severely troubled and with golden baritonal sounds he sings lines of John Donne that begin: “Batter my heart, Three-Person’d God.” Although Adams’s music...
MN: Where are you from originally? R McK: Los Angeles, CA MN: Are there other musicians in your family? RMcK: Both my parents studied classical guitar at the University of Southern California. MN: Where did you study? RMcK: First, I studied at Pasadena City College, then Cal State Northridge and after that at the Juilliard School. MN: What instruments do you...
“Singing is most powerful to me when it’s deeply connected to our whole lives,” says Ryan McKinny. These are telling words from a singer who has forged his career not as a series of stops on the opera circuit but as a process of exploration—and whose reputation stands as much on his thoughtful approach to his work as on the intrinsic appeal of his...
