Michael Slattery, tenor

Since graduating from Juilliard, Michael Slattery has enjoyed an exciting international career. He has worked with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, the French National Orchestra in Paris, the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie Hall. Career highlights include Peter Sellars' Tristan Project at Lincoln Center, the title role in Bernstein's Candide at Royal Festival Hall in London, and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at the Châtelet Theater in Paris, the Staatsoper in Berlin, and at Glimmerglass.

His prize-winning recordings include Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne, Scarlatti's Cecilian Vespers, Handel's Atalanta, Saul, and Solomon, and Bernstein's Candide. His solo discs The Irish Heart, and Secret and Divine Signs, received critical acclaim from Gramophone Magazine and Five Star ratings from BBC Music Magazine and ClassicFM respectively. His voice has been recorded for films and for television, and upcoming recordings will include Handel's Acis and Galatea and Samson, Britten's Curlew River, and a disc of Dowland songs. Several other original recording projects are currently in development.

This season he will sing Messiah with the Minnesota Orchestra, encores of his critically acclaimed performance as the Madwoman in Britten's Curlew River at the Athens Festival in Greece, and Acis and Galatea at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.

Last season Michael Slattery was included in The Spectator's list of tenor "Heroes of the Concert Hall." He has recently enjoyed giving his first master classes at Universities across the United States. Outside his musical activities, Michael Slattery devotes much of his spare time to visual art and to writing. His paintings have been published in the French art magazine ORAOS and exhibited by Glimmerglass Opera in conjunction with the launch of their new website.