Biography
Baritone
Michael Sumuel
Michael Sumuel appears this season with the Metropolitan Opera in the title role of Le nozze di Figaro, Washington National Opera as Porgy in Porgy and Bess, and the Candian Opera Company and LA Opera as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly. He makes debuts with the Chicago Symphony, Camerata Salzburg, and Houston Symphony.
Operatic highlights include the Metropolitan Opera as Reginald in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X and Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore;San Francisco Opera for the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, Escamillo in Carmen, and Elviro in Xerxes; Lyric Opera of Chicago as Masetto in Don Giovanni; Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Sharpless, Junius in The Rape of Lucretia, and Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Seattle Opera as the title role in Figaro and Leporello in Don Giovanni; and Santa Fe Opera in Carmen. In concert, he has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Sumuel was awarded a Richard Tucker Career Grant, was a Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition grand finalist, and won the Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition. He is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Merola Opera Program, and the Filene Young Artist program at Wolf Trap Opera. He currently resides in San Francisco with his wife and son and made his San Francisco Symphony debut in December 2012.
Operatic highlights include the Metropolitan Opera as Reginald in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X and Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore;San Francisco Opera for the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, Escamillo in Carmen, and Elviro in Xerxes; Lyric Opera of Chicago as Masetto in Don Giovanni; Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Sharpless, Junius in The Rape of Lucretia, and Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Seattle Opera as the title role in Figaro and Leporello in Don Giovanni; and Santa Fe Opera in Carmen. In concert, he has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Sumuel was awarded a Richard Tucker Career Grant, was a Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition grand finalist, and won the Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition. He is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Merola Opera Program, and the Filene Young Artist program at Wolf Trap Opera. He currently resides in San Francisco with his wife and son and made his San Francisco Symphony debut in December 2012.
