Michael Todd Simpson

This season, baritone Michael Todd Simpson returned to both the Metropolitan Opera for the new production of Guillaume Tell and as Escamillo in Carmen and to the Palm Beach Opera as the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzanze. This summer he makes his European debut at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Escamillo in a new production of Carmen directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, and next season he returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Marcello in La bohéme. His many roles include the title role in Eugene Onegin, Count in Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Silvio in Pagliacci, Escamillo in both Carmen and Le Tragedie de Carmen, Zurga in The Pearl Fishers, Hermann and Schlemil in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Lescaut in Manon, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dr