In the summer of 2017, Michael was the Cobbler in Philip Glass's The Juniper Tree at Wolf Trap Opera. Premier of Korngold’s immense Das Wunder der Heliane and the Baritone Soloist in Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Symphonie. In the 2018-2019 season, Michael sang the title role in the world premiere of Henry Mollicone’s Moses, under the baton of Maestro James Conlon, and Caireles in El gato montés with LA Opera in June 2019, he made his role debut as Escamillo in Carmen with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra he then joined the Bard Summerscape and Music Festival as Der fünfte Richter in the U.S. During the 2019-2020 season at LA Opera, he sang Schaunard in La bohème, Der Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte, and Sir Walter Raleigh in Roberto Devereux. Summer of 2022, he sang Ford in Verdi's Falstaff (opposite Sir Bryn Terfel as the title role) and the title role in Don Giovanni with the Aspen Opera Theater.ĭuring the 2020-2021 season, he sang Ophémon in Joseph Bologne's L'amant Anonyme at LA Opera and Demetrius in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Santa Fe Opera. Matthew Passion in a co-production with the Hamburg Ballet and covered Dandini in Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola.

This season at LA Opera, he sang the Bass Soloist in the St. Hawk is a recent graduate of the Los Angeles Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program.

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