Michael Spyres

54 pieces since 2010 — in 20 roles, at 10 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.

54 pieces
20 roles
10 companies
17 years

1 piece as Caramoor Festival — stats above show all coverage for Michael Spyres.

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Sail, away

Sir Arthur Sullivan, the son of an Irish father and an Italian mother, studied Mendelssohn’s composition style in Leipzig. He was therefore, inevitably, the supreme English theater composer of his day, and his often Mozartean style of melody is not out of place in a bel canto festival. After all, in the fourteen operettas he […]

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