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Singer and conductor, tenor and baritone, eclectic artist with more than 150 roles, acclaimed by the public on stages all over the world.
Defined Renaissance man, awarded with honorary titles and prizes also for his humanitarian commitment.
Promoter of young talents and founder of Operalia. Worldwide Ambassador of Spanish Culture and Zarzuela.
Extraordinarily versatile, he has been general director and promoter of opera with Carreras and Pavarotti.
Performer of world premieres of operas, starred in opera movies, pioneer of crossover and winner of 12 Grammy Awards.
Conductor with more than 600 performances.
His career has continued for more than half a century and for this he has been celebrated at the Operas of New York, Vienna, Verona, Milan and Buenos Aires.
Trained as a cellist, Daniel Blendulf has developed a dual career as both a soloist and conductor. In 2014, he was awarded the Herbert Blomstedt Prize for conducting. He served for many years as artistic advisor to the Sinfonietta de Dala in Sweden, collaborating on numerous inspiring projects, including a Japanese tour with cellist Torleif Thedéen. Blendulf has worked with many prestigious ensembles, such as the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Camerata Salzburg, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He performs on a 1791 Vincenzo Panormo cello.
French tenor Benjamin Bernheim’s recent seasons have established him as a regular guest artist at Europe’s leading opera houses, including the Opéra national de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, Staatsoper Berlin, Opéra national de Bordeaux and the Royal Opera House in London where he performs leading tenor roles from the romantic repertoire. Garnering high praise with both his performances and recordings, he has been hailed as “The most beautiful tenor voice since Luciano Pavarotti” by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and “the new star tenor” by Diapason. In 2020, he was named “Artiste Lyrique de l’Année” (Opera Singer of the Year) at the Les Victoires de la Musique Awards in France, “personnalité musicale de l’année” (Musical Personality of the Year) by Le Syndicat professionnel de la critique de théâtre, musique et danse, and Singer of the Year by Oper! Magazin.. The same year, his debut album was also awarded a “Diapason d’Or” by Diapason, and was named a “Choc de Classica” by Classica.
Mr. Bernheim’s 2022/23 season brings him to the Wiener Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Opernhaus Zürich and the Metropolitan Opera among others. At the start of the season, Mr. Bernheim returns to one of his signature roles, Des Grieux in Manon at the Staatsoper Hamburg. Mr. Bernheim then performs Duca in Verdi’s Rigoletto twice in a row; first at the Wiener Staatsoper and then at the Metropolitan Opera where he makes his much-anticipated house debut. This is followed by his highly-praised interpretation of Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème at the Wiener Staatsoper. Also included in his 2022/23 season is his long-awaited debut as Roméo in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, first in concert with the Orchestre de chambre de Genève, followed by a staged production at Opernhaus Zürich. Also at the Opernhaus Zürich, he returns to the role of Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. His season concludes with a new production of Roméo et Juliette at the Opéra national de Paris, with performances in June and July 2023. On the concert stage, Mr. Bernheim makes his house debut at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, performing Verdi’s Requiem, followed by a recital later in the season. He also performs recitals at the Opéra national de Bordeaux, the Saarländische Staatstheater, Oper Frankfurt, Prinzregententheater, as part of the Munich Opera Festival, and at the Salzburger Festspiele.
Previous highlights include the title role in Les contes d’Hoffmann at the Staatsoper Hamburg, Faust (title role) at the Opéra national de Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, and at the Latvian National Opera, Rodolfo in La bohème at the Opéra national de Paris, Opernhaus Zürich, Royal Opera House (London), Staatsoper Berlin, and Wiener Staatsoper, Des Grieux in Manon at the Opéra national de Paris and Opéra national de Bordeaux, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opernhaus Zürich, Wiener Staatsoper and Salzburger Festspiele, Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto at the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Lensky in Eugene Onegin at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Alfredo in La traviata at the Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House (London), Opernhaus Zürich, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper, Opéra national de Bordeaux and the Staatsoper Berlin, the title role of Werther at the Opéra national de Bordeaux, and Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore at the Wiener Staatsoper.
On the concert stage, he has performed recitals at the Salzburg Festival, Opéra national de Bordeaux, La Grange au Lac, Opernhaus Zürich, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Philharmonie de Luxembourg, the Wiener Konzerthaus, Théâtre du Capitole, Gulbenkian Orchestra Main Hall, and L’instant Lyrique in Paris, and in Verdi’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elias, and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria.
An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, his debut album was released in 2019 to outstanding reviews. “You believe you are hearing some of the well-known arias for the first time,” raved the Süddeutsche Zeitung, while Le Monde effused “ a sumptuous voice, fiery sensitivity, and poetic musicality.” His second solo album, Boulevard des Italiens, released in 2022, was also very well received, Oper Magazin claimed: “one can almost speak of a sensational album…This is a cleverly put together… even charming album by a tenor who is unrivaled in his field”. BBC Music Magazine also rated the album five stars, praising: “Bernheim, who has a voice of immense clarity and lyrical attractiveness, sings Puccini like a dream… Taking a stroll with him down the Boulevard des Italiens is a real treat.” Benjamin can also be heard on the complete recording of Faust, in the title role, released in 2019 on the Palazzetto Bru Zane label.
Benjamin Bernheim studied with Gary Magby at the Lausanne Conservatoire,and was a young artist and troupe member at the Opernhaus Zürich.
The Swedish guitarist Mats Bergström (b. 1961 in Gävle) grew up in Stockholm in a family of musicians. After graduating from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, then a further year of study in London and a debut recital at the Wigmore Hall, he worked mainly as a session musician during the 1980s on both electric and acoustic guitar. Two years as a post-graduate student at the Juilliard School in New York at the beginning of the 1990s were followed by a conscious move towards chamber music. Today he is often heard accompanying some of our most prominent singers, or otherwise as a boundless soloist and ensemble player.
He has been a frequent guest with Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt) and the London Sinfonietta and has appeared with orchestras such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (HK Gruber: Busking), the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (Tan Dun: Guitar Concerto) and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Kurtag: Grabstein für Stephan). Mats Bergström’s acclaimed version of Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint has been presented in concerts at the Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms 2011) and Festival Hall in London, the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, Grieghallen in Bergen and Stockholm’s Konserthus in the presence of the composer himself.
In his discography, amongst his works of note are his recording of Bach’s Sei Solo – the three sonatas and three partitas for solo violin, transcribed for guitar – which has been praised in the international press and was nominated for a Swedish “Grammis” award, Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin together with Olle Persson, and a series of albums with Georg Riedel on the theme of Songs Without Words.
Mats Bergström, who lives in rural Uppland in Sweden, is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 2006. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious Litteris et Artibus medal by King Carl XVI Gustaf.
German-French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is one of the most sought after and versatile artists today. As a soloist, conductor and artistic director, he performs repertoire spanning from early music to the contemporary.
Season 2023/24 includes tours with Australian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées with Philippe Herreweghe, EUYO with Gianandrea Noseda and Arcangelo with Jonathan Cohen. Altstaedt makes his debut with Bamberger Symphoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal with Rafael Payare and NAC Orchestra Ottawa with Alexander Shelley, Bergen Philharmonic while re-invitations include London Philharmonic Orchestra with Ed Gardner, OPRF Paris, Tapiola Sinfonietta amongst others.
Since his highly acclaimed debut with Wiener Philharmoniker and Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival, recent notable residencies and collaborations include Budapest Festival Orchestra with Iván Fischer, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg with Teodor Currentzis, Helsinki Festival with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with Robin Ticciati, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Lahav Shani, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with Philippe Herreweghe, Münchner Philharmoniker with Krzysztof Urbánski, European Union Youth Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko, Seoul Philharmonic and Osmo Vänskä, all the BBC Orchestras including with John Storgårds, Orchestre National de France with Cristian Măcelaru, NHK and Yomiuri Nippon symphony orchestras, Washington’s National and Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and Sydney and New Zealand symphony orchestras. He also regularly performs on period instruments with ensembles as Il Giardino Armonico,Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Arcangelo, Academy of Ancient Music and conductors as René Jacobs, Phillippe Herreweghe, Andrea Marcon, Giovanni Antonini and Jonathan Cohen.
As a conductor, he works closely with the Scottish and Munich Chamber Orchestras and the OPRF Paris. He conducted in recent seasons the Budapest Festival Orchestra, SWR, OSI Lugano, Warsaw Philharmonic, Kyoto Symphony, Orchestra of 18th century, les Violins du Roy, Aurora and Zurich chamber orchestras.
In 2012, Nicolas was chosen by Gidon Kremer to succeed him as the new artistic director of the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival and in 2015 by Ádám Fischer to become the new Artistic Director of the Haydn Philharmonie until 2022, within whom he regularly performed with at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Esterházy Festival and recently on tour in both China and Japan. Nicolas was Artistic Director of the Pfingstfestspiele Ittingen 2019 and 2023.
As a chamber musician, Nicolas partners include Janine Jansen, Vilde Frang, Christian Tetzlaff, Pekka Kuusisto, Barnabás Kelemen, Joshua Bell, Ilya Gringolts, Tabea Zimmermann, Lawrence Power, Antoine Tamestit, Martin Fröst, Alexander Lonquich, Jonathan Cohen, Jean Rondeau, Thomas Dunford, and the Quatuor Ébène. He performs at both Salzburg Mozart and Summer Festival, Verbier, Utrecht, BBC Proms, Lucerne, Musikfest Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein and Rheingau.
Joint appearances with composers such as Thomas Adès, Jörg Widmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Thomas Larcher, Fazil Say and Sofia Gubaidulina also consolidate his reputation as an outstanding interpreter of contemporary music. Sebastian Fagerlund, Helena Winkelman, Anders Hillborg and Fazil Say have recently written concertos for Nicolas. New Concertos by Erkki-Sven Tüür, Liza Lim and Márton Illés will be premiered in 23/24,
His most recent recordings for his Lockenhaus Festival garnered the BBC Music Magazine 2020 Chamber Award and Grammophone Award 2020. He received the BBC Music Magazine Concerto Award 2017 for his recording of CPE Bach Concertos on Hyperion with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen and the Edison Klassiek 2017 for his Recital Recording with Fazil Say on Warner Classics.
Nicolas received the Beethovenring Bonn 2015 and Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg 2018. Nicolas was a BBC New Generation Artist 2010-2012 and a recipient of the „Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship“ in 2009.
Amihai Grosz looks back on a very unusual career path: At first a quartet player (founding member of the Jerusalem Quartet), then and until today Principal Violist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and also a renowned soloist.
Initially, Amihai Grosz learned to play the violin, before switching to the viola at age 11. In Jerusalem, he was taught by David Chen, later by Tabea Zimmermann in Frankfurt and Berlin as well as in Tel Aviv by Haim Taub, who had a formative influence on him. At a very early age, he received various grants and prizes and was a member of the “Young Musicians Group” of the Jerusalem Music Center, a program for outstanding young musical talents.
As a soloist, Grosz has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Tugan Sokhiev, Klaus Mäkelä, Ariel Zukermann, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, Alexander Vedernikov and Lionel Bringuier. He performs internationally with orchestras such as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
In the world of chamber music, Amihai Grosz collaborates with artists such as Yefim Bronfman, Mitsuko Uchida, Daniel Hope & Friends, Eric le Sage, Janine Jansen & Friends, Julian Steckel, Daishin Kashimoto and David Geringas. Internationally, he can be heard regularly at the most prestigious concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Wigmore Hall in London and the Philharmonie Luxembourg, as well as at leading festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Evian, Verbier and Delft Festivals, the BBC Proms and the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival.
One of the most beloved and celebrated musical ambassadors of our time, soprano Renée Fleming captivates audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence. Known as “the people’s diva” and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo, she continues to grace the world’s greatest opera stages and concert halls. Over the past few seasons, Fleming has hosted a wide variety of television and radio broadcasts, including the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series and Live From Lincoln Center on PBS. Most recently, Fleming was awarded the National Medal of Arts at the White House by President Obama for her artistic excellence, creativity and innovation.
As a musical statesman, Fleming has been sought after on numerous distinguished occasions, from the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to performances in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2014 Super Bowl. In January 2009, Fleming was featured in the televised “We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration” at the Lincoln Memorial concert for President Obama. In 2012, in an historic first, Fleming sang on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in the Diamond Jubilee Concert for HM Queen Elizabeth II. Fleming also performed for the United States Supreme Court and, in November 2009, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic’s “Velvet Revolution” at the invitation of Václav Havel. An additional distinction was bestowed in 2008 when, breaking a precedent, Fleming became the first woman in the 125-year history of the Metropolitan Opera to solo headline an opening night gala.
A four-time Grammy winner, Fleming won the 2013 Best Classical Vocal Solo Grammy Award for Poèmes, a collection of 20th-Century French music. In recent years, this fourteen-time Grammy-nominated artist has recorded everything from Strauss’s complete Daphne to the jazz album Haunted Heart to the movie soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Her recording honors range from the 2009 Echo Award for Strauss’s Four Last Songs to the Prix Maria Callas Orphée d’Or by the Académie du Disque Lyric for TDK’s DVD production of Capriccio. In February, 2012, Fleming received the Victoire d’Honneur, the highest award conveyed by the French Victoires de la Musique.
An advocate for literacy, Renée Fleming has been featured in promotional campaigns for the Association of American Publishers (Get Caught Reading), and the Magazine Publishers of America’s READ poster campaign for the American Library Association. Her book, The Inner Voice, was published in 2004. An intimate account of her career and creative process, the book was also published in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Russia.
Fleming is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Hall Corporation, the Board of Sing for Hope, and the Advisory Board of the White Nights Foundation of America. In 2010, she was named the first ever Creative Consultant at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Albert Dohmen can look back on a long international career with a first highlight in 1997 performing Wozzeck at the Salzburg Easter and Summer Festival with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras conducted by Claudio Abbado and directed by Peter Stein. He subsequently worked with famous conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Claudio Abbado, James Conlon and many others. Albert Dohmen has been interpreting the important roles of his fach (like Kurwenal, Pizarro, Wotan, Amfortas, Holländer, Scarpia, Bluebeard, Hans Sachs) at all major opera houses such as the Bastille in Paris, Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, at the opera houses of Zurich, Amsterdam, the Liceo Barcelona, the Vienna State Opera, the opera in Los Angeles etc. He made his debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera as Jochanaan / Salome.
Albert Dohmen established himself as one of the leading Wotan singers of his generation. He sang this part in complete Ring cycles in Trieste, Geneva, Catania, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Vienna State Opera, at Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam and at the MET, just to name a few.
Recent highlights include his debut as Hans Sachs / Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Geneva and Barcelona, as Gurnemanz / Parsifal in Geneva, as Barak / Frau ohne Schatten in Florence under the direction of Zubin Mehta as well as productions Elektra / Orest in Baden-Baden under Christian Thielemann, Salome / Jochanaan in Amsterdam, Don Giovanni / Commendatore at the Vienna State Opera, Flying Duchman/ Daland in Paris, Falstaff in Stuttgart, Tristan/ König Marke in Barcelona and Meistersinger/ Pogner at La Scala in Milan.
Albert Dohmen made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival 2007 performing Wotan / Wanderer in the Ring cycles with revivals in the following years. At the 2022 Bayreuth Festival he made his debut as Hagen / Götterdämerung and Landgraf / Tannhäuser.
Albert Dohmen is also a very successful concert singer: He has sung the entire bass repertoire from Bach to Schönberg in all important concert halls and at international festivals, for example Beethoven´s 9th symphony under Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Brahms´ Requiem, again under Kurt Masur at the St. Denis Festival, Mahler´s 8th Symphony under Valery Gergiev and Gurre-Lieder, Beethoven’s 9th under James Levine. He also has various recital programmes, which he can be hears with in the renowned concert halls.
Among the numerous CDs documenting his artistic output, special mention should be made of his recordings of Zemlinsky’s Florentine Tragedy with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly and his three recordings under Sir Georg Solti (Frau ohne Schatten, Fidelio and Meistersinger).
Described as having “all the makings of a star” in the Guardian and hailed as “a lyric tenor clearly going places” in Opera magazine, tenor Sam Furness has sung major roles for Scottish Opera, Garsington Opera and the Teatro Real, Madrid, always earning praise for his compelling acting and innate musicality.
In the 2022/23 season he sings Kudryas Katya Kabanova at Grand Théâtre de Genève followed by performances at National Theater Brno, Andres Wozzeck at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Tybalt Roméo et Juliette at Savonlinna Opera Festival. He also sings Dvořák Requiem with St Alban’s Bach Choir.
Recent operatic engagements include Kudryas Katya Kabanova (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma); Turiddu Cavalleria rusticana and Beppe Pagliacci (Åbo Svenska Teater, Turku); Pang Turandot (Grand Théâtre de Genève); Albert Gregor The Makropoulos Case (Opernhaus Zürich); White King/Mad Hatter Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Rodolphe Guillaume Tell (Theater an der Wien); Glass Maker Death in Venice (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Lensky Eugene Onegin (Garsington Opera, Royal Academy Opera and at the Ryedale Festival); Novice Billy Budd (Royal Opera House, Teatro Real Madrid and Teatro Municipal Santiago); Simpleton Boris Godunov (Royal Opera House); Vitek The Makropulos Case (Grand Théâtre de Genève, Vlaanderen Opera); Kavalier Cardillac (Vlaanderen Opera); title role Albert Herring (Opera di Firenze, Opera Holland Park and Théâtre du Capitôle Toulouse); Don José Carmen (Jyväskylä Opera); Tamino Die Zauberflöte (Turku Music Festival); Hoffmann Les contes d’Hoffmann (English Touring Opera); Jaquino Fidelio (Garsington Opera and Philharmonie de Paris); Peter Quint/Prologue The Turn of the Screw (Northern Ireland Opera); Števa Jenůfa (Scottish Opera); The Diary of One Who Disappeared (Shadwell Opera); and Flamand Capriccio, Baron Lummer Intermezzo, Gaspar in the world première of David Sawer’s The Skating Rink and Jack in the world première of Roxanna Panufnik’s Silver Birch (all for Garsington Opera).
On the concert platform he has recently sung Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore and Mass in C Minor with Hertfordshire Chorus in St Alban’s Cathedral, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
His oratorio and concert repertoire includes Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Messiah and Samson, Britten’s St Nicholas and Les Illuminations, Verdi’s Requiem, and Dyson’s Canterbury Pilgrims.
Michael König is a heroic tenor who performs in the world’s most prestigious opera houses including Semperoper Dresden, Opéra National de Paris, Hamburg State Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Festival Bayreuth, Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, Covent Garden London, Glyndebourne, Zurich, Oslo, Tokyo and La Scala, Milan. His voice and powerful stage presence is in demand for renowned roles such as Florestan (Fidelio), Max (Der Freischütz), Lohengrin, Siegmund (Die Walküre), Erik (Der Fliegende Holländer), Kaiser (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos), Jim Mahoney (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), Andrey Khovansky (Khovanshchina), Grigory/The Pretender (Boris Godunov), and Sergey (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) amongst others.
Michael made his debut at La Scala in 2017 as Max in Der Freischütz. Recently he could be heard in a new production of Lohengrin at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Florestan (Fidelio) in Luxembourg and Stuttgart, Ariadne auf Naxos in Lausanne and at La Scala in Milan, Jim Mahoney at the Korea National Opera in Seoul, Siegmund (Die Walküre) at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse as well as in Amsterdam. As a concert performer he sang Beethoven’s 9th symphony at La Scala and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel in Los Angeles and on tour in Washington, London and Paris.
Michael is also in high demand on the concert stage. His extensive repertoire includes the tenor parts in Beethoven’s 9th symphony and Missa solemnis, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Das Klagende Lied and the 8th symphony and he has performed with top orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic , the BR and SWR Symphony Orchestras and the San Francisco Symphony.
He has worked with celebrated conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Christian Thielemann, Andris Nelsons, Daniele Gatti, Seji Ozawa, Daniel Barenboim, Vladimir Jurowski, Gennadi Rozhdesventsky, Hartmut Hänchen, Sebastian Weigle, Teodor Currentzis and Christoph von Dohnányi.
Michael König was born in Mutlangen, Germany and began his singing career as a member of the Schwäbisch Gmünd St. Michael’s boys’ choir. He studied music at the Mannheim Conservatory with Rudolf Piernay. His early engagements included Jeník (The Bartered Bride) for Glyndebourne Festival, Narraboth (Salome) and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) in Frankfurt and Lensky (Eugene Onegin) in Baden – Baden, Basel and Paris.
When he is not touring, Michael lives with his family in Haida Gwaii, BC Canada.
Future projects include a concert performance of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck (Tambourmajor) at the Verbier Festival as well as Die Walküre and Die Frau ohne Schatten in Stuttgart and again Die Walküre at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.