Michael Devlin                      RETURN TO HOME PAGE
Bass-Baritone

Internationally renowned bass-baritone Michael Devlin's most recent and upcoming engagements include a return to the Met for Wozzeck, Capriccio, Moses und Aaron, and La Traviata a return to Chicago for Mahagonny, Susannah and Tristan und Isolde, Santiago and Amsterdam for Wozzeck, Cardillac in Genoa, The Ballad of Baby Doe in New Orleans, Katya Kabanova in St. Louis, Manon in Atlanta, Regina at the Chautauqua Opera, as well as concerts with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, Witchita and Seattle Symphonies. He also returned to NYCO as Daniel Webster in The Mother of Us All for a 30 year anniversary. Most recent engagements include last season's Wozzeck at the Met, Un Re in Ascolto, The Consul and Salome in Chicago, and a new recording of Moses und Aaron (DGG) with performances in Amsterdam and the Salzburg Festival. Other recent engagements included Chicago for Susannah, The Ring and Cosi Fan Tutte, Carmen at the Arena di Verona, Wozzeck in Amsterdam, Boris Godunov in Long Beach, a Cleveland Orchestra/Carnegie Hall and a Madrid debut in Wozzeck, Faust in Israel, Pelleas at the Met, and concerts including Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.

Recent seasons included Carmen with Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Die Zauberflote and La Fanciulla del West at the Met, Pelleas in Seattle and a debut in Amsterdam as Wurm in Luisa Miller, Fidelio in Los Angeles, Salome in Washington and London (released on Home Video), Le Nozze di Figaro in Santa Fe, Opera Columbus and the Israel Philharmonic, as well as concerts with the San Francisco and St. Louis Symphonies. Mr. Devlin has also sung Oedipus Rex with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Samson et Dalilah and The Ring in San Francisco.

Michael Devlin made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1978 as Escamillo in Carmen and returned there as Eugene Onegin, Mephistofeles in Faust, Jochanaan in Salome, Bluebeard in Bluebeard's Castle, the Four Villains in The Tales of Hoffmann, as well as Peter in Hansel and Gretel and in 1986 and as Falke in Die Fledermaus. The latter two were telecast on Live From the Met. He has sung Don Giovanni in Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Prague, Covent Garden, San Diego and Santa Fe, made his debut with the San Francisco Opera as Golaud in Pelleas et Melisande and starred in Il Prigioniero. He returned to San Francisco Salome, Das Rheingold and Götterdammerung, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and opened the 1989/90 season as Don Pedro in L'Africaine. Mr. Devlin appeared with the NYCO in numerous leading roles, as well as Chicago, Seattle, Houston, Barcelona, Glyndebourne, Brussels, Aix-en-Provence, Monte Carlo, and Paris Operas.

The artist has appeared with every major orchestra in this country, including the New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Indianapolis and the Chicago, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Minnesota, St. Louis and Boston Symphony Orchestras. Mr. Devlin can be heard on countless videos and recordings including Haydn's Mass in Time of War with Bernstein, Julius Caesar, Haydn's L'Infidelta Di Luna, and Rameau's Dardanus as well as the newly released recording of Moses und Aaron on DGG.

Michael Devlin, Bass-Baritone
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