Green was born in
Suffolk, Virginia, and grew up in low-income housing and a trailer park. and a
Master of Music at
Florida State University. In 2014 he received the
George London Foundation Award, won first prize of the Gerda Lissner Foundation, was a finalist in
Palm Beach Opera's singing competition, and graduated from the
Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Green sang the Commendatore in
Don Giovanni at the
Juilliard School in New York and at
Opera Colorado in Denver where he was Resident Artist in 2010–11. In 2014 he sang Zuniga in
Carmen for the
Wolf Trap Opera Company in
Vienna, Virginia. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2012–13 as Mandarin in Puccini's
Turandot, followed by
Parsifal as a Grail Knight. The following season at the Met saw him as the Bonze in
Madama Butterfly and as the Jailer in
Tosca. In 2014–15 he sang Rambo in
The Death of Klinghoffer at the Met. Green returned to the Met in 2016 as Colline. In 2025, he sang
Queequeg in the Met's premiere production of Jake Heggie's
Moby-Dick. In 2014 Green became a member of the
Vienna State Opera. His roles there included Angelotti in
Tosca, Sparafucile in
Rigoletto, Basilio in
The Barber of Seville, a Jew in
Salome, Fouquier-Tinville in
Andrea Chénier, a Monk in
Don Carlos, Titurel in
Parsifal, the King in
Aida, Timur in
Turandot, and Varlaam in
Boris Godunov. He appeared as guest artist in
Opéra de Lille's 2016 production of in
Il trovatore as Ferrando. Later that year, Green debuted at the
Salzburg Festival in
Die Liebe der Danae as one of the Kings. In concerts, Green has sung in Handel's
Messiah, in Mozart's
Requiem and
Coronation Mass, and in Verdi's
Messa da Requiem. He sang several times in Beethoven's
Symphony No. 9, first in 2014 with the
Philadelphia Orchestra. == Honors and awards ==