This season American
bass-baritone
Michael Sumuel,
lauded as having
“vocals that are
smooth and ingratiating”
(Daily Camera),
returns to San
Francisco Opera to
perform the title role
in a new production
of Le nozze di Figaro.
He also reprises
Escamillo in Carmen
with the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet,
joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, and returns
to The Cleveland Orchestra for Mozart’s Mass
in C minor, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood
Bowl for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and
the Grant Park Music Festival in Beethoven’s Missa
solemnis.
Last season, Sumuel performed Marcello in La bohème
at Houston Grand Opera and Alidoro in La Cenerentola
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at Norwegian National Opera and Ballet.
On the concert stage, he sang Haydn’s Theresienmesse
with the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago,
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Oklahoma
City Philharmonic, and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria
with the San Diego Symphony, and participated
in a Schubertiade at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia.
He also joined the Phoenix Symphony for performances
of Messiah and Mercury Houston for
Bach’s Magnificat.
Concert appearances included debuts with the BBC
Proms, singing Kate Whitley’s I am I say with the
Multi-Story Orchestra at Eastgate Centre Rooftop
Car Park, Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Orchestra
of St. Luke’s conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado
at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
with Seattle Symphony, Handel’s Messiah with the
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Bach’s St. John
Passion with Music of the Baroque in Chicago conducted
by Jane Glover, and a return to Mercury
Houston to perform the bass solos in Bach’s St. Matthew
Passion.
MICHAEL SUMUEL
Bass-Baritone
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