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.