The 2019–20 season will mark William Hite’s 34^th as a professional singer. He will sing and record the role of Henry Gray in Arnold Rosner’s The Chronicle of Nine with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project under Gil Rose. He will return to perform with the Cantata Singers in Boston for the 20^th time, taking on the role of Zadok, the High Priest in Handel’s Solomon. In December he will sing Messiah with Chicago’s Apollo Chorus, the ensemble with which he recorded the piece on the Clarion label, and Boston’s Spectrum Singers have invited him to perform Bach’s Magnificat and BWV 130, Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir. Recently, Mr. Hite debuted the title role in Eric Sawyer’s opera The Scarlet Professor that deals with the controversial and tragic downfall of the Smith College professor Newton Arvin in the early 1960s. He sang the role of Massimo with Odyssey Opera in Gluck’s Ezio, and Oebalus in Emmanuel Music’s performance of the 11-year-old Mozart’s Apollo et Hyancithus. On the concert stage he returned to the Charlotte Symphony for Messiah, and the Fairfax Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem. And for the first time he sang at the Hatch Memorial Shell in Boston with the Landmarks Orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in front of an audience of 5000.