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