“But best of all was tenor Chance Jonas-O’Toole’s Male Chorus, his voice so sweet (and accurate on the difficult runs) that you breathlessly awaited his every interjection. ”
Praised by Opera News for his “charm, sharp diction, and ping,” tenor Chance Jonas-O’Toole is committed to engaging audiences through passionate storytelling.
Chance is currently a Stipendiat at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where this season he will be heard as David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the Steuermann in Der Fliegende Holländer, and Tamino in an abridged version of Die Zauberflöte, as well as smaller roles in Das Schlaue Füchslein, La Traviata, Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Salome, and more. In the 23/24 season, he was heard in new productions of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena as Sir Hervey, George Benjamin’s Written on Skin as John/Angel 3, and Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame as Chekalinsky, as well as many repertoire productions.
In 2023 Chance joined the Merola Opera Program where he sang the Male Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. In 2022, Chance first joined Merola, singing Monostatos in The Magic Flute, as well as scenes by Donizetti and Britten with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. In 2021, Chance joined Opera Theatre of St. Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist. In the 2019/2020 season, Chance performed the role of Jo the Loiterer in Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All with Met Live Arts and The Juilliard School at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He also toured to London’s Opera Holland Park and Versailles’ Opera Royale as the First Sailor in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Juilliard 415, which garnered praise from The New York Times for his “sweet-voiced tenor.”
In 2019, Chance debuted with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy under Andris Nelsons. In the summers of 2017 and 2018, Chance was a tenor fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he sang in multiple world premieres and song recitals, as well as concerts of Bach cantatas under John Harbison. Chance is a graduate of The Juilliard School with both a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Vocal Performance. Chance is a recipient of the Novick Career Advancement Grant from the Juilliard School.
He is currently based in Berlin.