Throughout opera, concert and contemporary work, baritone Michael Weyandt has collaborated with many of the premiere conductors, composers, and ensembles of our time. He has sung acclaimed performances across the entire repertoire, from Handel (Almira, in its US staged premiere) to Eight Songs for a Mad King to world premieres of works by Oliveros, Neuwirth, and more. He brings “remarkable emotional range” (Opera News) to each “riveting, tour-de-force performance” (Chicago Classical Review).
Michael has sung some of the most demanding contemporary works, including operas by Pauline Oliveros, Peter Eötvös, Olga Neuwirth, and Clara Latham, as well as concert works by Kevin Puts, Lewis Nielson, Yotam Haber, Peter Maxwell Davies, Mauricio Kagel, and others. He has performed with the New York City Opera, International Contemporary Ensemble, Hawaii Opera Theater, Opera Tampa, the Talea Ensemble, and has also collaborated on original evening-length works with soprano Alice Teyssier and composer Bradley Scott Rosen.
He’s performed at some of the great venues of NYC, from Carnegie Hall to the Kitchen, Lincoln Center to Roulette, and many, many times in the lobby of the Gershwin Hotel. Because the truth is stranger than fiction, he also once co-wrote and performed an Adult Contemporary song that appeared in two episodes of Temptation Island.
Michael is an alumnus of Oberlin College, Indiana University, and the Tanglewood Music Center.
