Michael Spyres - 2007 und 2008

For the 2008/2009 season Michael Spyres will be member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he made his debut as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte already in June 2008 and also appear as Steuermann in Der fliegende Holländer and Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor.
Other important upcoming engagements are his La Scala debut in Milan as Belfiore in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims in April 2009, Duca in productions of Rigoletto for Springfield/Missouri (October 2009) and the 2009 St Margarethen Festival in Austria as well as the title role in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide for his debut with the Vlaamse Opera in Gent and Antwerp.
In July 2008 he sang for the first time Rossini’s Otello at the Wildbad Rossini Festival /Germany. The production will be commercially released on DVD and CD as well.
Michael Spyres was born in Mansfield, Missouri U.S.A. where he grew up in a family of musicians. In 2002 the Governor of Missouri presented Michael and his family the award of "Most Musical Family". Mr. Spyres began his studies in the U.S. then continued his studies in the Konservatorium Wien of Vienna, Austria. He was a Young Artist with Opera Theatre Saint Louis then shortly there after made his main stage operatic debut with Opera Theatre Saint Louis’ touring production as Rodolfo in La Boheme. He has performed such roles as Albert Herring, Duca in Rigoletto, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Alfredo in La Traviata and Hoffmann. In addition to his opera career he has a very active oratorio schedule in which he has performed Handel's Messiah, Bach's Weihnachts Oratorium, Mozart's Requiem, and Honegger's Le Roi David to name a few. Mr. Spyres is a three-time Regional winner of the MET auditions and winner of the Midwest MacAllister Awards. In addition to singing throughout the Midwest of the U.S.A he has performed as a soloist in Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, and South Africa. Michael has been a soloist with such choirs as the World Youth Choir, World Chamber Choir, and the Arnold Schönberg Chor. In the recent years Mr. Spyres has made several important debuts such as Vienna's famed Musikverein, the Eremitage in St. Petersburg (operatic concerts with Konstantin Orbelian in 2007 and 2008) as well as in Teatro San Carlo of Naples, Italy (Jaquino in Fidelio). He has recorded Mozart's Requiem with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the renowned Schoenberg Chor under the baton of Erwin Ortner. In July 2007 he performed and recorded with the label NAXOS the role of Alberto from Rossini's comic opera La Gazzetta in the Bad Wildbad Rossini Festival. In September Michael toured Japan as Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata, followed in November by his return to the Musikverein as the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. (July 2008)

Quelle: http://www.fischerartists.com/Spyres.htm

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