Arizona Opera Cast Members & Creatives

Jason Edelstein is a baritone from Paramus, NJ. This summer, Edelstein joins The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as a 2026 Gerdine Young Artist covering roles in both Roméo & Juliette and The Pirates of Penzance. After OTSL he returns to the Aspen Music Festival and School as a Renée Fleming Artist singing Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and covering Papageno in The Magic Flute. Edelstein spent summer 2025 in Aspen as a Renée Fleming Artist singing Schaunard in La Bohème and covering Abinaswar in the World Premiere of Siddhartha, She. He spent the 2025/26 Season as a Jan Miller Studio Artist with Pensacola Opera singing the roles of Charlie in Three Decembers, Barone Douphol (Germont cover) in La Traviata, and Ike Skidmore (Curly cover) in Oklahoma!.

He is a recent Encouragement Award recipient from the Florida District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. Edelstein completed his graduate studies at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and his undergraduate studies at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Recent credits include Barone Douphol (Germont cover) in Verdi’ s La Traviata, Charlie in Heggie’s Three Decembers, Schaunard in Puccini’s La Bohème, Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, John Buchanan in Hoiby’s Summer and Smoke, Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Steward in Dove’s Flight.