Michael Spyres’s first-ever Siegmund in Die Walküre, carried out for his debut on the Bayreuth Pageant, emerged as one of many highlights of this summer season’s competition season. Chris’s Cache now steps up with a recording of Michael Spyres in Lohengrin, his different new Wagner opera, in addition to with a seize of Spyres within the title position of a 2017 La Clemenza di Tito.
By now, everybody can agree about Spyres’s extraordinary versatility and intensive exploration of many lesser-known works. I imagine his exceptional trio of solo CDs on the Erato label—Baritenor, Contra-tenor and Within the Shadows—deserves inclusion on any checklist of the best recorded classical vocal recitals.
Following Bayreuth, in October Spyres will tackle one more new title position: Manrico in Verdi’s Il Trovatore on the Houston Grand Opera co-starring Ailyn Pérez, Raehann Bryce-Davis, and Lucas Meachum.
Proper after Houston, Spyres continues tackling the German repertoire on the Vienna Staatsoper with a uncommon revival of Palestrina performed by Chistian Thielemann, adopted in January by his first Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos reverse Anna Netrebko, additionally in Vienna, the place he then performs Florestan in Fidelio. After which Handel beckons as soon as once more in April when Spyres and Joyce DiDonato lead a live performance tour (with a recording prone to comply with) because the tortured mother and father of Jephtha.
Stories counsel Spyres will probably be Walther in Bayreuth’s new Meistersinger subsequent summer season, after which in March 2026 it’s been recommended that can he’ll seem as Tristan to Lise Davidsen’s Isolde within the Met’s lately introduced new Yuval Sharon manufacturing of Wagner’s masterpiece!
All of it sounds exhausting!
Wagner: Lohengrin
Elsa: Johanni van Oostrum
Ortrud: Martina Serafin
Lohengrin: Michael Spyres
Telramund: Josef Wagner
Heinrich: Timo Riihonen
Herald: Edwin Fardini
Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov
Opéra Nationwide du Rhin, Strasbourg
10 March 2024
In-house recording
Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito
Vitellia: Aleksandra Kurzak
Sesto: Stéphanie d”Oustrac
Annio: Angela Brower
Servilia: Valentina Nafornita
Tito: Michael Spyres
Publio: Marko Mimia
Conductor: Dan Ettinger
Palais Garnier, Paris
3 December 2017
In-house recording
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