Biography - 210 Words

Dr. Michael Hendrick

DMA, Louisiana State University, 2021. Don José in Bizet's Carmen (New York City Opera, La Coruña and Santander, Spain); Menelas in Strauss' Die Ägyptische Helena (Metropolitan Opera); Title role in Wagner's Parsifal (Lyric Opera of Chicago and Amazon Festival of Opera); Title role in Wagner's Lohengrin (Moscow, Russia); Herodes in Strauss' Salome (Wuppertal, Germany), and Paul in Korngold's Die tote Stadt (Opéra national de Lorraine in France.) Lennie in Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice of Men (Washington National Opera, Manitoba Opera, Arizona Opera, Utah Opera, Kentucky Opera, and Sarasota Opera.) Also at Sarasota Opera: Canio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio, Erik in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer (also with Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and with Croatian National Theater in Zagreb, Croatia); Levko in Rimsky-Korsakov's May Night, Laca in Janaček's Jenufa (also with Malaga, Spain and with ABAO in Bilbao, Spain.) Also in Bilbao as the title role in Verdi’s Aroldo. As Bacchus in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos (Metropolitan Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Seattle Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and Brazil’s Teatro Amazonas); Also at Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil as Enée in Berlioz' Les Troyens, and Samson in Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila; Title role in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito (National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC).