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Michael Spyres is one of the most sought after tenors of his generation and has been celebrated at many of the most prestigious international opera houses, festivals and concert halls. In the widest range of repertoire his career has taken him from the genres of Baroque to Classical to 20th century, while firmly establishing himself as a specialist in the Bel Canto repertoire as well as Rossini and French Grand Opera.

In the 2021/2022 season Michael presented his award winning debut solo album for Warner, _BariTenor._ On the opera stage, he performed Florestan in a new staging of _Fidelio_ at the Opéra Comique de Paris and made his much anticipated role debut as Mozart's Idomeneo at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. He also returns to the Houston Grand Opera as Roméo in Gounod's _Roméo et Juliette_ and makes his debut as Canio in Pagliacci with the OLOpera. In summer he returns to the Aix-en-Provence Festival in two new productions, singing Pollione in _Norma_ and the title role of _Idomeneo_. On the concert platform, Michael sang his first Tristan in the second act of _Tristan und Isolde_ at the Opéra de Lyon, made his recital debut with Mathieu Pordoy at the Atelier Lyrique deTourcoing, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Festival Les Volques, and performs two separate recitals in Paris. In 2021/2022, he also starred in concerts with the Ravello Festival, Opera Philadelphia, Strasbourg Philharmonie, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia , Gran Theatre de Liceu, Theater an der Wien, Théâtre des Champs-Élysees, and Teatro alla Scala.

Recent performances include his house debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in the title role of _La damnation de Faust,_ at the Houston Grand Opera as Fernand in _La favorite_ and at the Theater an der Wien as Licinio in _La vestale_, his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker in _Oedipus Rex_, the title role of _Mitridate, Re di Ponto_ at the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia of Valencia, the title part of _Benvenuto Cellini_ at the Berlioz Festival, the Berliner Festspiele, the BBC Proms and in Versailles, the title role of _Les Contes d'Hoffmann_ at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, his debut at the Vienna State Opera as Don Ramiro in _La Cenerentola_ and at the Philadelphia Opera as Edgardo in a new staging of _Lucia di Lammermoor_, his role debuts as Florestan in concert performances of _Fidelio_ with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, as Gualtiero in _Il pirata_ at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, as Chapelou in _Le Postillon de Lonjumeau_ in a new production at the Opéra Comique, in the title role of Vincent D'Indy's _Fervaal_ at the Festival de Radio France Occitanie Montpellier and as Pollione in _Norma_ at Opernhaus Zurich and the Teatro Real of Madrid, in Berlioz's _Lélio_ at the Carnegie Hall and in the title role of _La damnation de Faust_ in Strasbourg (recorded for Warner). In recent years he has also appeared in the title roles of _La clemenza di Tito_ for his debut at the Opéra national of Paris, of _Orlando paladino_ for his Zurich Opera House debut, of _Mitridate, re di Ponto_ in London (Covent Garden), and of _La damnation de Faust_ at the London Proms, the Edinburgh Festival and the Berlioz Festival La Côte-Saint-André; as Fernand in _La favorite_ at the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona, Vasco de Gama in a new production of _L'Africaine_ at Oper Frankfurt, Don José in _Carmen_ (role debut) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris, Énée in _Les Troyens_ (role debut) at the Salle Érasme Strasbourg (recorded for Warner/Erato), Alfredo in the second act of _La traviata_ in the Domingo Gala at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and in Schubert's _Messe Es-Dur D 950_ at the Salzburg Festival with the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Riccardo Muti.

In concert and recital, Michael has recently appeared in La Coruna, Strabourg, Moscow, at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Oper Frankfurt and the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa.La Coruna, Strabourg, Moscow, at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Oper Frankfurt and the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa.

Other career highlights are performances at the Teatro alla Scala (Belfiore in _Il viaggio a Reims_, Rodrigo in _La donna del lago_), Salzburg Festival (_Betulia Liberata_), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (_La donna del lago_), Liceu Barcelona (_Les contes d'Hoffmann_), Lyric Opera of Chicago (_Die Fledermaus_, _The Merry Widow_), La Monnaie Brussels (Arnold in _Guillaume Tell_, _Mitridate, re di Ponto_), Dutch National Opera (Libenskoff in _Il viaggio a Reims_), Semperoper Dresden (Giannetto in _La gazza ladra_), Théâtre des Champs-Élysées of Paris (_Mitridate_, Pirro in _Ermione_), New York Carnegie Hall (_Beatrice di Tenda_, _Missa Solemnis_), Gewandhaus Leipzig (Mendelssohn's _Lobgesang_), Bunka Kaikan Hall Tokyo (_La damnation de Faust_), Aix-en-Provence Festival (_Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno_), Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro (Baldassare in _Ciro in Babilonia_, a solo recital, Rodrigo in _La donna del lago_ and the title role of _Aureliano in Palmira_) and the BBC Proms (_Missa Solemnis_).

Michael Spyres was born in Mansfield (Missouri) where he grew up in a family of musicians. He began his studies in the U.S.A. and continued them at the Vienna Conservatory. He first sprang to international attention in 2008 in the title role of Rossini's _Otello_ at the Rossini in Wildbad Festival and as an ensemble member of Deutsche Oper Berlin where he made his debut as Tamino in _Die Zauberflöte_.

Mr Spyres has worked with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Mark Elder, Valery Gergiev, Kirill Petrenko, Fabio Luisi, Alberto Zedda, Michele Mariotti, Emmanuelle Haïm, Christophe Rousset and Evelino Pidò.

He has recorded Berlioz's _Les Troyens_ (Erato), Rossini's _La gazzetta_, _Otello_, _Le siège de Corinthe_ and _Guillaume Tell_ (Naxos) as well as _La petite messe solennelle_ (Naive), Donizetti's _Les martyrs_ and _Le Duc d'Albe_ (Opera Rara), Mazzoni's _Antigono_ (Dynamic), Meyerbeer's _Les Huguenots_ (ASO), Schumann's _Faust-Szenen_ (ASO), Verdi's _Otello_ (CSO) and his solo albums _A Fool For Love_ (Delos) and _Espoir_ (Opera Rara). _Ciro in Babilonia_ and _Aureliano in Palmira_ from Pesaro (Opus Arte), _Medea in Corinto_ from Martina Franca, _Guillaume Tell_ from Bad Wildbad and _Les contes d'Hoffmann_ from Barcelona (Erato) are available on DVD/Blu-Ray.