BIOGRAPHY
RUBIN CASAS
BASS BARITONE
Rubin Casas’ stentorian bass—marked by depth, beauty, and a commanding stage presence—continues to distinguish him on stages across the United States and abroad.
In 2026, the talented bass reprises the role of Scarpia in Tosca in his debut with Ozark Lyric Opera. Recent engagements include the Commendatore in Don Giovanni with Charleston Opera Theater, Tosca with New York City Opera in Bryant Park, and creating the role of Alphonse Frankenstein in the world premiere of Gregg Kallor's Frankenstein with Arizona Opera. He appeared as Grech in Fedora with Teatro Grattacielo and as Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors with the New England Symphony Orchestra.
Career highlights include the title role in Don Pasquale with Spokane Opera — hailed as “impressive” by The Spokesman-Review — and his Carnegie Hall debut in La Fanciulla del West with the Opera Orchestra of New York under Eve Queler. Casas joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in 2007–08, covering roles in Macbeth, War and Peace, The Gambler, Satyagraha and Madama Butterfly. With the Opera Company of Middlebury, he appeared as Scarpia in Tosca and Banco in Macbeth, Virginia Opera as Abimélech in Samson et Dalila,
Sparafucile in Rigoletto at Opera Las Vegas, and Commendatore in Don Giovanni with Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, where he was praised for his “rumbling bravura.” His broad repertoire includes both Angelotti and Scarpia in Tosca, Colline in La Bohème, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor Bishop Ruiz in the Grammy Award–winning world premiere of Don Davis’ Rio de Sangre, later released on Albany Records. Casas earned an Austin Critic’s Table Award nomination for his portrayal of Eddie Carbone in A View From the Bridge described as “powerful and expressive” by the Austin American-Statesman.
In concert, he has been bass soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with both the New York Choral Society and the Litchfield County Choral Union, and has appeared with the Idaho Falls Symphony for a Verdi-Wagner Bicentennial Gala and in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Austin, as well as in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Monmouth Civic Chorus and Orchestra.
Additional credits include engagements with the New Haven, Meriden, and Princeton Symphony Orchestras, and a gala with Orchestra Miami celebrating the 200th anniversary of Casa Ricordi. He made his Alice Tully Hall debut in Rossini’s rarely heard La cambiale di matrimonio and appeared at Carnegie Hall as bass soloist in Haydn’s Mariazeller Mass No. 8 with MidAmerica Productions.
Rubin Casas is an alumnus of Yale University and The University of Texas at Austin.