Bass Jonathan Deutsch made his European operatic debut as Zaccaria and Ramfis in Verdi's "Nabucco" and "Aida" in the Roman amphitheatre, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, leading directly to his Italian debut as Zaccaria, in the city of Trieste. Other foreign appearances include Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" in Marseille, and twenty Nabuccos and ten performances of Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" in France, Spain, Portugal and Canada.
In the United States, Mr. Deutsch made his major operatic debut, with the Washington Opera, as the Old Hebrew in nine performances of Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah," with Placido Domingo, Denyce Graves and Justino Diaz. He has also sung the King in "Aida" with Baltimore Opera, Blitch at Wolf Trap, Alidoro in Palm Beach, Sarastro in Hartford and, in New York, Sparafucile with National Grand Opera, and Timur, with New York Grand Opera, in Central Park.

With a voice of three octaves, Mr. Deutsch has performed a bass and baritone oratorio repertoire presently numbering fifty-four works. International appearances include Verdi Requiems and Beethoven Ninths and the Missa Solemnis in Europe, Mexico, Panama, Canada, as well as a commercial video of Handel's Messiah, recorded live in the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, the first concert ever performed there. American performances include a world premiere performance and subsequent recording, on three days' notice, with the late Mstislav Rostropovich, of Shostakovich's cantata Rayok in the Kennedy Center and Carnegie concert halls, Beethoven's Mass in C with the National Symphony Orchestra in the National Cathedral, four Beethoven Ninths with Leonard Slatkin and the NSO in the Kennedy Center, Ivan the Terrible with the NSO at Wolf Trap, the Mozart Requiem with the Baltimore Symphony, Brahms "Requiems," in the Cathedral of St. John the Devine, New York, and, in Annapolis, MD, conducted by Sherrill Milnes, and the Schubert Mass in "G" in Carnegie Hall.
A native of Fargo, ND, a graduate, in criminology, of Moorhead, MN, State University, and a former U.S. Air Force military policeman, Master Sergeant Deutsch is currently the senior member of The United States Army Chorus, Washington, DC, as well as the senior vocalist of The U.S. Armed Forces.