Michael Adair

Canadian baritone Michael Adair, is a graduate of the Zürich International Opera studio where he performed Jupiter in Cavalli’s La Didone, Maestro di Casa in Andrea Chenier, Zalzal in L’Étoile, Guccio in Gianni Schicchi, Ben Budge in Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera and Jim in La Fancuilla del West under the batons of Nello Santi, Carlo Rizzi and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Other opera credits include Herr Fluth in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor; Marcello in La Boheme, Betto/Il Notario in Gianni Schicchi, Starveling in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elder Ott in Floyd’s Susannah, the title role in Pasatieri’s Signor Deluso and Alte Knurrhahn in the children's opera "Der Fischer und seine Frau" at the Cologne Opera. Most recently, Michael sang Gugliemo in Cosí fan tutte at the Teatro Comuna