Michael Sumuel

In the 2026-27 season, American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel, lauded as having “vocals that are smooth and ingratiating” (Daily Camera) will return to LA Opera as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, conducted by James Conlon,a role he will also sing with the Boston Symphony and Andris Nelsons at the Tanglewood Festival, as well as with Boston Lyric Opera. Other opera performances include the title role in Porgy and Bess with Opéra de Monte Carlo, and Leporello in Don Giovanni with the Edinburgh International Festival. A sought-after concert artist, Mr. Sumuel will appear with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Mozart’s Requiem, Jane Glover and the San Francisco Symphony for Haydn’s Creation, Jaap wan Zweden as Christus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Radio France, Jonathan Cohen and the Handel & Haydn Society for Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderatro, and Handel’s Messiah with Jane Glover and the Minnesota Orchestra and Kansas City Symphony, as well as with Mercury Houston. 

Last season, Michael Sumuel returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Papageno in Julie Taymor’s The Magic Flute, Porgy at Houston Grand Opera, Leporello at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Achilla in Giulio Cesare at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as Alberich, a role debut in Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle, also at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Concert highlights included Brahms’ Requiem with the San Diego Symphony, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at St. John the Divine in New York City for New Year’s Eve. He currently resides in San Francisco with his wife and son.

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