
Biography
MICHEL DE SOUZA - Baritone
Born in Brazil, Michel de Souza won the Maria Callas Vocal Competition in São Paulo and the Margaret Dick and Ye Cronies Competition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he attended the Alexander Gibson Opera School, gaining a masters degree in opera with distinction. He went on to join the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera Covent Garden, which led to many appearances with the company and the beginning of his international career in principal theatres, both in Europe and South America. He also appears regularly in concert, including with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Proms, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with L’Orchestre National de Lyon and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, at the Al Bustan Festival in Lebanon as well as giving recitals of Lieder, Chanson and Brazilian song. He was an Emerging Artist at Scottish Opera.
Roles:
LA BOHEME: Schaunard ~ Royal Opera Covent Garden; Grand Théâtre de Genève
CAPRICCIO: Servant - Royal Opera Covent Garden
CARMEN: Escamillo ~ Scottish Opera
CARMEN: Morales ~Royal Opera Covent Garden
COSI FAN TUTTE: Guglielmo ~ Teatro Argentino de la Plata
CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN: Forester ~ Scottish Opera
DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES: 2nd Commissary ~ Royal Opera Covent Garden
DON CARLO: Flemish Deputy ~Royal Opera Covent Garden
LA GRANDE DUCHESSE DE GEROLSTEIN: Baron Grog ~ Grand Théâtre de Genève
EUGENE ONEGIN: Captain ~ Royal Opera Covent Garden; Grand Théâtre de
Genève
L’ELISIR D’AMORE: Belcore ~ Theatro São Pedro
DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN: Nightwatchman ~ Royal Opera Covent Garden
EL GATO CON BOTAS: King ~ Royal Opera Covent Garden (Linbury Studio).
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST: Sonora ~ Grange Park Opera
GLORIANA: City Crier - Royal Opera Covent Garden
GUILLAUME TELL: Leuthold ~ Grand Théâtre de Genève
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Figaro - Theato Municipal de São Paulo
IPHIGENIE EN TAURIDE: Un Scythe ~ Grand Théâtre de Genève
INTERMEZZO: Der Notar ~ Scottish Opera
IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO: Il Conte Robinson~ Theatro São Pedro
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM: Starveling ~ Grand Théâtre de Genève
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM: Demetrius ~ Scottish Opera
PORGY AND BESS: Crown ~ Grande Teatro do Palácio das Artes de Belo Horizonte
RIGOLETTO: Marullo ~ Scottish Opera; Grand Théâtre de Genève
SALOME: 1st Soldier and 1st Nazarene ~ Orchestre National de Lyon
SAMSON ET DALILA: Grand Prêtre de Dagon ~ Grange Park Opera; Chelsea
Opera Group
IL SIGNOR BRUSCHINO: Gaudenzio ~ British Youth Opera
SUKANYA: Aswini twin -London Philharmonic Orchestra
THAÏS: Athanaël ~ Chelsea Opera Group
TOSCA: Angelotti ~ Royal Opera Covent Garden
LA TRAVIATA: Baron Douphol ~ Royal Opera Covent Garden
TURANDOT: Mandarin ~ Royal Opera Covent Garden
TURANDOT: Ping ~ Royal Opera Covent Garden
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE: Papageno ~ Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
IL GUARANY: Gonzales ~ Grande Teatro do Palácio das Artes de Belo Horizonte
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Harlequin ~ Rostov on Don Theatre
In Concert:
Beethoven SYMPHONY 9 ~ Orchestre National de Lyon, Auditorium Orchestre
National de Lyon & Festival Berlioz; MISSA SOLEMNIS ~ Theatro Municipal do Rio
de Janeiro.
Berlioz: SCENE HEROIQUE ~ Orchestre National de Lyon, Festival Berlioz
de Falla: EL RETABLO DE MAESE PEDRO - Don Quijote- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Händel: MESSIAH ~ Usher Hall Edinbugh; Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Walton: BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST ~ Glasgow Concert Hall
Vaughan Williams: SERENADE TO MUSIC ~ Proms BBC Scottish National
Orchestra
Verdi: MESSA DA REQUIEM ~ Glasgow Concert Hall ; Usher Hall Edinburg; Sage
Gateshead.
Bernstein : MASS ~ Theatro Municipal in São Paulo
Conductors with whom he has collaborated include:
Paolo Arrivabeni; Ryan Bancroft; Maurizio Benini; Placido Domingo; Mark Elder; Dan Ettinger;
Alexander Joel; Mikhail Jurovsky; Roberto Minczuk; Henrik Nanasi, Antonio Pappano; Simon Rattle; Donald Runicles; Leonard Slatkin; Robin Ticciati

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