Tenor Joshua Sanders is engaged for a third season as an ensemble member at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. In 2026/2027 he reprises his roles in: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Conte Almaviva), Die Zauberflöte (Tamino), La Traviata (Alfredo Germont), Donizetti’s Viva la Mamma (Tenore), and Alles Liebe! (Cosimo); and premieres a new production of Kurt Weill’s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Jack O’Brien / Tobby Higgins).

In the 2025/2026 season, he returned to the Metropolitan Opera to cover Sam Clay in Mason Bates’ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and made debuts at Teatro Massimo Palermo in Donizetti’s Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (Guglielmo), the Luxembourg Philharmonie in Rossini’s Stabat Mater (Tenor soloist), and Tanglewood Music Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Le nozze di Figaro (Don Curzio); conducted by Andris Nelsons.

Mr. Sanders made debuts across Germany in the 2024/2025 season, at Deutsche Oper Am Rhein in Der fliegende Holländer (Steuermann), Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci in Galuppi’s rarely heard Baroque gem Didone abbandonata (Iarba / Nettuno) with the Nereydas Ensemble, at Stadttheater Fürth in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Conte Almaviva), and the Internationale Maifestspiele in Der fliegende Holländer (Steuermann) and Tosca (Spoletta). He also debuted with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt (Victorin); in collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera.

His 2023/2024 season began with a debut in Roméo et Juliette (Roméo) at Opera San José, where he also starred in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Conte Almaviva). He joined the roster of the Lyric Opera of Chicago for La Cenerentola (Don Ramiro cover), and Los Angeles Opera for Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio cover). Mr. Sanders made debuts at Nashville Opera in Die Zauberflöte (Tamino), and New York City’s Perelman Performing Arts Center in Huang Ruo’s An American Soldier (Baker/Carter/Rodriguez), which was recorded for Platoon Records and nominated for a Grammy© Award.  He also returned to the Metropolitan Opera to workshop the title character of Sam Clay in Mason Bates’ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

Mr. Sanders made his international debut in 2017 at Teatro Regio Torino as Der Hirte in Tristan und Isolde conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. During his year-long tenure at Teatro Regio, he sang roles in Turandot, Salome, Montiverdi’s L’Orfeo, Le nozze di Figaro, and Verdi’s I Lombardi alla prima crocciata (Il Priore di Milano) which was recorded for Naxos. In that same season, he also made his debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin in Un ballo in Maschera conducted by Donald Runnicles.

Other past seasons include engagements with: the Metropolitan Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Madison Opera, Berkshire Opera Festival, and Wolf Trap Opera in partnership with Washington Concert Opera.

In concert, Mr. Sanders made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2019 in Vaughan William’s Serenade to Music (Tenor soloist). He has appeared at Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall in Bruckner’s Mass no.3 (Tenor soloist), and with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra as the title character in Berlioz’s Lélio. Additional concert credits include: Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St. John Passion, and Vaughan Williams’ Pilgrims Journey.

As a cross-over cabaret artist, he has produced and starred in shows as his alter-ego Pretty Lamé, for the Internationale Maifestspiele, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, and the New York State Council on the Arts. He made his debut at New York City’s Lincoln Center in concert with luminaries and winners from RuPaul’s Drag Race, and at the Public Theater in a cabaret curated by Justin Vivian Bond for New York State’s NYPopsUp initiative. He has also starred Off-Broadway at Company XIV in their acclaimed productions of Nutcracker Rouge and Seven Sins (recorded for Spotify).

Mr. Sanders trained as a studio artist at Wolf Trap Opera, and holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been awarded prizes and grants from the Belvedere Singing Competition, the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, the Opera Foundation, Opera Index, the Loren L. Zachary Competition, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera at Florham Violetta DuPont Competition, Bel Canto Vocal Scholarship Competition, and New York State Council on the Arts’ Support for Artists initiative.