Randolph Locke enjoys a busy international career, having performed with opera companies in Italy, Greece, Finland, Stuttgart, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Puerto Rico, Mexico City, Ottawa, Edmonton, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Boston, Atlanta, Santa Fe, and Sarasota and more. His repertoire encompasses some of the most demanding tenor roles, including Calaf, Cavaradossi, Radames, Bacchus, Samson, Manrico, Hoffmann, and Don José.

Opera News described his Don José in Carmen: “Randolph Locke provided a José of strength and resolve whose principles, as much as love, guided his actions. His stentorian tenor met every demand, even ending his Flower Song pianissimo.” In his role debut as Radames in the Opera Memphis production of Aida, the Commercial Appeal reported: “Aptly self-assured and virile, Locke possesses a pure tenor voice that rang out with vigor and might in his arias about battle; yet the same voice melted with aching sensitivity during expressions of intimacy with Aida.”

Locke has also made forays into Russian (Eugene Onegin, The Gambler), Czech (The Makropoulos Case, Smetana’s Hubicka and The Bartered Bride) and more contemporary fare, such as Mourning Becomes Electra, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Susannah, and Merriwether Lewis in The Corps of Discovery. At the Opera de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and the Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato, he sang the role of Panfilo in the revised premiere of Carlos Chavez’ The Visitors, which was released on the RCA/BMG label, winning Mexico’s coveted Music Critics Award. In 2001, Mr. Locke and his wife, mezzo soprano Carol Sparrow, cofounded the nonprofit organization Opera for Animals: Singing Is Saving (OASIS) to raise funds for animal welfare groups by giving recitals or other special musical events via their donated talents.