James Rose

James Rose currently serves as the President of Harvard College Opera, with co-President Alina Dong.

As a rising senior on leave for the 2021-2022 academic year, James served as the Vice President of Finance for the Harvard College Opera’s 2021–2022 Executive Board and performed the role of Don Curzio, in addition to serving as Production Advisor, for Harvard College Opera’s 2022 production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.

For the 2020–2021 year, James served as the Vice President of Finance and the Director of Belonging on HCO’s Executive Board and Board of Operators. The year before, James had the pleasure of performing the role of Monostatos in HCO's 2020 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Treasurer for the company that year, James also served as Production Advisor for the show and sat on the HCO Board of Operators' Communications, Development, Gala, Publicity, and Diversity & Inclusion committees. James made his Harvard College Opera debut as Le Roi in the 2019 production of Cendrillon, for which he also served as Associate Financial Producer and sang in the chorus. He has also sung in several of HCO’s smaller recitals.

Throughout high school, James sang a combination of lyric baritone and tenor repertoire and played Aeneas in Choate Rosemary Hall’s production of Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas. He was also the president of his high school’s two all-male a cappella groups, the Kaprophones and the Maiyeros, in his junior and senior years, respectively.

Outside of HCO, James is a resident of Quincy House, a writer for Satire V, a research assistant to several professors, and was a member of the crew team. He is pursuing a custom Special Concentration in Innovation, Political Economy, and Social Structure combining economics, comparative law, and other social sciences; a secondary in Economics; and a Concurrent Master’s degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Regional Studies – East Asia. He also studies Arabic and Chinese.