Daniel Sumegi

Since his US début in 1991, Daniel Sumegi has carved out an impressive international career.  With over eighty roles in his repertoire, he has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Paris Opera, as well as major opera companies across the US, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia.

Appearances in recent seasons have included Il barbiere di Siviglia with Glimmerglass Opera, Der Rosenkavalier with Scottish Opera, a revival of Macbeth in Frankfurt, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Parsifal in Hamburg, Mahler's Symphony No 8 in Madrid, Der Fliegende Holländer with the Seattle Opera, Tannhäuser and Nabucco with the Opera Australia, Don Carlos and Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Welsh National Opera, Salome with the Opera North and Hamburg State Opera, and Aïda in Montreal.

The Australian born bass-baritone has performed with all of Australia's major opera companies in productions of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Die Zauberflöte, Aïda, Faust, La bohème, Samson et Dalila, Eugene Onegin, Simon Boccanegra, Les contes d'Hoffmann, Tristan und Isolde, Tosca, Carmen and Salome.

In 1994, Daniel Sumegi made his Italian début in Der Freischütz, and in recital, for the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi of Trieste, and, also in 1994, he sang the title role in he North American première of Sir Michael Tippett's King Priam for the San Francisco Opera Center.  In January 1995, Daniel Sumegi sang once again in Italy, at the Teatro Regio di Torino in A Midsummer Night's Dream followed by seasons of Faust and Macbeth for Holland's National Reisopera, and in June 1996 he returned to the San Francisco Opera for a centennial production of La bohème.

He has worked under noted conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Sir Simon Rattle, Jeffrey Tate, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, Carlo Rizzi, Simone Young, Nello Santi, Donald Runnicles, Sebastian Weigle and Edo de Waart.

2008 engagements include Die Frau ohne Schatten in Hamburg, Elektra in Washington and concert appearances in Brisbane, Hong Kong and Lisbon.

Daniel Sumegi appears on CD in Beatrice di Tenda and on video in the San Francisco Opera Production of Capriccio.