Jonas Budris

Jonas Budris’s Evangelist was superb—tonally refined, perfectly in tune, and evenly balanced in every register. His high notes were voiced with particularly effortless clarity.

Boston favorite Jonas Budris sang with smooth voice as the Poet and King Chrononhotonthologos. His most affecting moment came at opera’s end, where Vores interpolates the drama with settings of Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach. Budris’ singing there was pristine and hauntingly beautiful.

Throughout the opera, Budris revealed his acting versatility through his character’s emotional tumults, and in the third scene aria, particularly, the light agility of his honeyed tenor stood out.

What came through, though, was quite fine...the men, as is often the case at weddings, were more keyed up: tenor Jonas Budris bright and intense, baritone Andrew Garland dark and determined.

Equally brilliant and a bit more intense was the steely voice of tenor Jonas Budris, whose joyous delivery of “For look, as high as the heaven” almost made the audience forget completely that they were in their third hour of listening; and, as the penultimate song on the program, it gave one last burst of soloistic light before the final chorus.

Last (and possibly best) came young Jonas Budris, whose tenor only seemed to grow in power as it soared, and who brought the entire concert to a compelling close.