Joseph Levitt joined the Ball State University School of Music faculty in 2004 as an assistant professor of voice and co-director of Opera Theatre.

Since making his operatic debut, Mr. Levitt has sung over 40 roles in more than 1,000 performances. He sang the role of Rodolfo with The New York City Opera National Company. Other roles include Hoffmann, Tamino and Pinkerton, a role in which he was last heard in September with Opera Illinois and last summer with the Opernair Festspiel in Vienna, Austria.

He created the part of Kaufmann in the American premiere of Jakob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm; Mr. Broucek in the opera of the same name, and Stewa in Jenufa by Janacek.

With conductor and composer Lukas Foss, he sang the American premiere of Gian-Carlo Menotti’s one-act opera The Egg, along with the world premiere of John Eaton’s opera, The Cry of Clytemnestra.

Mr. Levitt has sung with the Indianapolis Opera Company, and was heard last season in Robert Ward’s The Crucible with the Toledo Opera, and as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Opera Illinois. He was also guest tenor soloist with The Champaign-Urbana Symphony in Penderecki’s Credo. This past May, he again joined the Indianapolis Opera Company in their production of The Crucible. This fall, he will be guest tenor soloist with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Other solo engagements have included the Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, and Theater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen. Roles he performed include Nemorino in L’Elisire d’amore, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Graf Zedlau in Wienerblut and The Italian Singer in Capriccio. Equally at home in light opera, Mr. Levitt has performed the works of Strauss, Lehàr and Kalman in many of the historic opera houses in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Levitt’s vocal education includes bachelor and master’s degrees from Indiana University School of Music. He also received the prestigious Performer’s Certificate, for “Outstanding Musical Performance in Voice”.

An experienced stage director, he has written and directed a children’s version of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, in a co-production with Bradley University and Opera Illinois. With the Ball State Opera Theatre, he will produce and direct their main stage production of Die Zauberflöte this January in Emens Auditorium. 

He has sung with many famous conductors and coaches such as Bryan Balkwill, Tibor Kozma, Fiora Contino, Lukas Foss, Mignon Dunn, Kurt Adler, John Wustman, Günter Neuhold, Wolfgang Vacano and Ks. Sena Jurinac.

Mr. Levitt continues to study with his voice teacher, Arthur Levy in New York City. He makes his home in Indianapolis with his wife and two children.