Michael Myers is a versatile tenor who has performed with major opera companies throughout the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Santiago, Canada (Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton,), New York City Opera, Pittsburgh, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Seattle, Nice, Avignon, Wiesbaden and Stuttgart. His concert performances have included appearances with the Cincinnati May Festival with James Conlon, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Riccardo Muti (also at Carnegie Hall), Opéra de Lyon with John-Elliot Gardiner, the Minnesota Orchestra, and many performances with the Mostly Mozart Festival at New York’s Lincoln Center.
Michael Myers American tenor
The 2007 – 2008 season saw Michael Myers at the Metropolitan Opera in the opening night production and high-definition broadcast of Lucia di Lammermoor as Normanno (also available on DVD), the Messenger in Aida, and the First Armed Man in Julie Taymor’s Die Zauberflöte He also participated in productions of The Gambler, War and Peace, and Macbeth. In subsequent seasons Mr. Myers returned to the Metropolitan Opera for more performances as Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor as well as War and Peace with the Canadian Opera Company.
Past operatic engagements for Michael Myers have included the title role of Peter Grimes in Nancy (France), Captain Vere in Billy Budd (Israel), Don José in Carmen in Bordeaux and Nancy, and the title role in the Les contes d’Hoffmann in Nancy, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor in Salt Lake City, Erik in Der fliegende Holländer in Bordeaux, Werther in Tel Aviv, and Of Mice and Men in Utah.
Mr. Myers was also seen as Don José in Carmen with the Utah Opera and the Connecticut Grand Opera and returned to the Washington Opera where he sang the role of the Podesta in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera. Mr. Myers appeared in Brussels as Soliman in Zaide with Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, as Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress at the Teatro Real in Madrid, as the Painter/the Negro in Lulu with the Danish Radio Symphony in Copenhagen, which was subsequently recorded. He has also sung with the Washington Opera in the title role of Werther.
Other engagements have included the Cologne Opera as the Painter/the Negro in Lulu, the title role in Die Nase, the Holland Festival for the world premiere of the opera Esmée, the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Sam in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah and the Painter in Lulu, and the Metropolitan Opera as Cassio in Otello. He has also sung leading tenor roles in concert performances of Berio’s La vera storia with the BBC Symphony in London and in Max Brand’s Maschinist Hopkins at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam.
Mr. Myers’ extensive list of credits include his La Scala debut as Sir Huon of Bordeaux in performances of Oberon conducted by James Conlon, Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress at the La Monnaie in Brussels, concert performances of La damnation de Faust with the Orchestre
de Radio France conducted by Charles Dutoit, and earlier staged concert performances and recording (EMI) of the same work with John-Elliot Gardiner at the Chatelet in Paris, and an additional recording (Philips) with the Opéra de Lyon, Prince Andrei in Khovanschina, the Painter in Lulu at the San Francisco Opera, and the title role of Peter Grimes in Montpellier.
Metropolitan Opera
| [Met Performance] CID:316000 Otello {274} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/14/1994 Debuts: Michael Myers, Adam Fischer |
| [Met Performance] CID:316050 Otello {275} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/19/1994 |
| [Met Performance] CID:316080 Otello {276} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/22/1994 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351755 Premiere of abridged version Die Zauberflöte {365} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/29/2006 Debuts: Ying Huang, Bennett Kosma, Jesse Burnside Murray, Kenneth Floyd |
[Met Performance] CID:351757  Die Zauberflöte {366} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/30/2006 HD Simulcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:351759 Die Zauberflöte {367} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/31/2006 Debut: Mari Moriya |
| [Met Performance] CID:351761 Die Zauberflöte {368} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/01/2007 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351771 Die Zauberflöte {370} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/02/2007 Debut: Jens Georg Bachmann |
| [Met Performance] CID:351778 Die Zauberflöte {371} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/04/2007 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351864 Die Zauberflöte {376} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/21/2007 Debut: Amanda Pabyan Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:351871 Die Zauberflöte {377} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/24/2007 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351883 Die Zauberflöte {378} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/02/2007 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:351899 Die Zauberflöte {379} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/08/2007 Broadcast/Streamed |
[Met Performance] CID:352065  New Production Lucia di Lammermoor {558} Metropolitan Opera House; 09/24/2007 Opening Night {123} Peter Gelb, General Manager Debut: Stephen Costello, Mary Zimmerman, Daniel Ostling, Mara Blumenfeld, T. J. Gerckens, Daniel Pelzig Broadcast/Streamed/Times Squarecast/Plazacast Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:352069 Lucia di Lammermoor {559} Metropolitan Opera House; 09/27/2007 Broadcast |
[Met Performance] CID:352071  Aida {1094} Metropolitan Opera House; 09/29/2007 Debuts: Kazushi Ono, Andrzej Dobber, Courtney Mills, Norbert De La Cruz |
| [Met Performance] CID:352075 Lucia di Lammermoor {560} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/01/2007 |
| [Met Performance] CID:352084 Aida {1095} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/04/2007 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:352086 Lucia di Lammermoor {561} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/05/2007 Debut: Stephen Gaertner |
| [Met Performance] CID:352096 Lucia di Lammermoor {562} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/09/2007 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:352106 Lucia di Lammermoor {563} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/13/2007 Broadcast |
[Met Performance] CID:352112   Aida {1096} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/16/2007 Debut: Reinhard Hagen Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:352115 Lucia di Lammermoor {564} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/17/2007 |
| [Met Performance] CID:352120 Aida {1097} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/20/2007 Debut: Micaela Carosi |
| [Met Performance] CID:352121 Lucia di Lammermoor {565} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/20/2007 |
| [Met Performance] CID:352130 Aida {1098} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/24/2007 Broadcast |
[Met Performance] CID:352132  Lucia di Lammermoor {566} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/25/2007 Debut: Todd Wilander Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:352140 Aida {1099} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/27/2007 Debut: Christine Freeman |
[Met Performance] CID:352142  Die Zauberflöte {380} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/29/2007 Debuts: Anna-Kristiina Kaappola, Dietmar Kerschbaum, Jakob Taylor, Luke Scott Murray Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:352143 Aida {1100} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/30/2007 |
| [Met Performance] CID:352151 Die Zauberflöte {381} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/01/2007 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:352153 Aida {1101} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/02/2007 Broadcast/Streamed |
| [Met Performance] CID:352160 Aida {1102} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/05/2007 |
| [Met Performance] CID:352162 Die Zauberflöte {382} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/06/2007 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:352166 Aida {1103} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/08/2007 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:352167 Die Zauberflöte {383} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/09/2007 |
| [Met Performance] CID:352175 Die Zauberflöte {384} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/13/2007 Broadcast/Streamed |
| [Met Performance] CID:352183 Die Zauberflöte {385} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/17/2007 |
[Met Performance] CID:352189   Die Zauberflöte {386} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/20/2007 Debut: Genia Kühmeier Broadcast/Streamed |
| [Met Performance] CID:352401 Lucia di Lammermoor {567} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/05/2008 |
| [Met Performance] CID:352406 Lucia di Lammermoor {568} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/08/2008 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:352418 Lucia di Lammermoor {569} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/13/2008 Broadcast |
[Met Performance] CID:352830  Lucia di Lammermoor {577} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/26/2009 Debut: Colin Lee |
| [Met Performance] CID:352838 Lucia di Lammermoor {578} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/29/2009 |
| [Met Performance] CID:352848 Lucia di Lammermoor {579} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/03/2009 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:352857 Lucia di Lammermoor {580} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/07/2009 HD Simulcast |
[Met Performance] CID:353395  Metropolitan Opera Premiere The Nose {1} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/05/2010 Debuts: Paulo Szot, William Kentridge, Sabine Theunissen, Greta Goiris, Urs Schönebaum, Luc De Wit, Catherine Meyburgh, Andrey Popov, Gordon Gietz, Sergei Skorokhodov, Brian Kontes, Grigory Soloviov, Jeffrey Behrens, Vassily Gorshkov Broadcast/Streamed Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:353413 The Nose {2} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/11/2010 |
| [Met Performance] CID:353416 The Nose {3} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/13/2010 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:353428 The Nose {4} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/18/2010 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:353441 The Nose {5} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/23/2010 |
| [Met Performance] CID:353445 The Nose {6} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/25/2010 Debut: Pavel Smelkov |
[Met Performance] CID:355027  The Nose {7} Metropolitan Opera House; 09/28/2013 Debuts: Ying Fang, Matt Boehler, Joseph Barron, Kevin Glavin, Christopher Job Broadcast/Streamed |
| [Met Performance] CID:355040 The Nose {8} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/03/2013 |
| [Met Performance] CID:355051 The Nose {9} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/08/2013 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:355058 The Nose {10} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/12/2013 |
| [Met Performance] CID:355072 The Nose {11} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/17/2013 |
| [Met Performance] CID:355102 The Nose {12} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/22/2013 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:355078 The Nose {13} Metropolitan Opera House; 10/26/2013 HD Simulcast |
