Robert Kopf is an American tenor based in New York City. Partial to the works of Benjamin Britten, he has performed the title role in Albert Herring as well as the roles of Lysander and Snout in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Miami Music Festival), and Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw (Mannes Opera.) This past summer, he debuted the role of Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with the Trentino Music Festival. Other credits include Tirsi in Gagliano’s La Dafne and selections from Handel’s Jephtha.

He has also performed the roles Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro, Dick McGann in Street Scene, and the Emcee in Cabaret. For his work in opera, he has received scholarships from the institutes of Opera Lucca and Classic Lyric Arts.

In concert he served as soloist with the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra as well as the Davidson College Symphony where he won the Davidson College Music Department’s annual concerto competition.

In recital he enjoys the Lieder repertoire, having performed both of Schumann’s Heine cycles: Dichterliebe and Liederkreis Op. 24. He also received a scholarship to attend the Lieder Studio at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria where he performed in programs of Schubert Lieder and German Operetta.   

An advocate for new work, he premiered composer Carol Lin’s song cycle for tenor “3 Poems by Eleanor Wylie” as well as Raphael Fusco’s “An American Requiem.” 

As a theatre practitioner, he received his alma mater’s Fujita Arts Fellowship to conduct research on contemporary interpretations and cultural contexts of the works of Samuel Beckett in Great Britain. He is an alumnus of the British American Drama Academy and the Samuel Beckett Summer Symposium at Trinity College.

He holds an MM in Voice from the Mannes School of Music and a BA in Theatre from Davidson College where he was J. Estes Miller and James C. Harper Scholar of Music and a Davidson Research Initiative Fellow.