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 Since
his U.S. debut in 1991, Australian bass Daniel Sumegi already has
an impressive career behind him. With over 95 roles in his
repertoire, he has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San
Francisco Opera, Covent Garden and the Paris Opera, as well
as major opera companies across the United States, Europe,
Asia, South America and Australia.
This season Daniel Sumegi
will take part in Opera Australia’s first ever complete
Ring Cycle, as Fasolt and Hagen, and will later also
perform for them as Sparafucile in Rigoletto and
Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin. He will return to
Los Angeles Opera for Billy Budd, as Mr Flint, and is
scheduled for returns to West Australian Opera and
Orchestra. He will also make his debut in concert with
Victorian Opera, as Oroveso in Norma.
2012/13 was given over mainly
to the Bicentennial of Richard Wagner. Sumegi appeared as
Fasolt, Hunding and Hagen in an epic 7 hour compact Ring
Cycle undertaken at the famed Teatro Colon in Buenos
Aires. He also returned to Seattle Opera to take part in
the last outing of their acclaimed “Green Ring”, repeating
his assignments as Fafner and Hagen. Amongst these projects
he toured to Japan for Escamillo in Carmen for AI
Productions, as well as Duke Bluebeard in Bluebeard’s
Castle, in concert for both the Perth and Brisbane
International Arts Festivals.
Recent engagements include
Macbeth and Don Giovanni (Opera Australia),
Madama Butterfly and Billy Budd (Metropolitan
Opera), Elektra (Perth International Arts Festival)
and The Lighthouse (Dallas Opera). He also performed
in concert with the Western Australian and Melbourne
Symphony Orchestras.
Other recent
performances include
the Ring
Cycle (Seattle Opera) and
Der Fliegende Holländer (State Opera of South
Australia).
Götterdämmerung
(New National Theater, Tokyo),
a return to the Metropolitan Opera to cover Daland in
Der Fliegende Holländer, and his first time as Wotan and
the Wanderer, serving as cover for Los Angeles Opera's
Ring Cycle. In
2010/11 Sumegi appeared
in Salome (Washington National Opera), Rigoletto
(Los Angeles Opera),
Götterdämmerung
(Opera du Rhin, Strassbourg) and San Francisco Opera's
Ring Cycle.
2008/2009 assignments featured
Act 1 of Die Walküre
(Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra), The Mikado
(Arizona Opera), The Messiah (Sydney Philharmonia and
Royal Melbourne Philharmonic), Opera Australia's
New Year's Eve Gala
at
the Sydney Opera House and Die Zauberflöte and Lady
Macbeth of Mtsensk (Opera Australia).
2007/2008 engagements
included Tannhäuser
(Opera Australia),
Tosca (Knoxville Opera),
Elektra (Washington Opera) as well as concerts with
Portugal's Gulbenkian Orchestra and an opera highlights
concert with Opera Hamilton. Daniel Sumegi also gave
his Australian Recital debut at the Art Gallery of New South
Wales with a program including Mussorgsky's Songs
and Dances of Death.
2006/2007 apprearances included
Barbiere (Glimmerglass Opera) and Der Rosenkavalier
(Scottish Opera)
a revival of Macbeth (Frankfurt),
A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Parsifal and Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Hamburg), Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Madrid and Der Fliegende Holländer
(Seattle Opera).
2005/2006 performances included
Nabucco (Opera Australia), Don Carlo, Barber of
Seville (Welsh National Opera),
Salome (Opera North),
and
Salome, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hamburg State Opera)
and Aida
(Montreal).
The
2004/2005 season saw debuts in Frankfurt (Title role in
Ernest Bloch's Macbeth), Los Angeles (La Boheme),
Barcelona (Parsifal) and the Cincinnati May Festival
(Schostakovitch 13th Symphony under James Conlon). He
returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Der Rosenkavalier,
Cologne Opera (Götterdämmerung)
and
Washington Concert Opera (Luisa Miller)
In the 2003/2004 season Daniel
Sumegi’s performances included: Cologne Opera (Götterdämmerung),
Opera Australia (Salome, Flying Dutchman), Minnesota
Orchestra (Messiah), Austin Lyric Opera (Flying
Dutchman), the Metropolitan Opera (Götterdämmerung),
Welsh National Opera (Carmen), and Mahler’s 8th
Symphony under Sir Simon Rattle in Birmingham.
In the 2002/2003 season Daniel Sumegi’s performances
included: Washington Opera (Japan Tour of Tosca,
Otello and Sly), Welsh National
Opera (Tosca), Opera Montpellier (Medea),
Dallas Opera (Turandot), Minnesota Opera (Der
fliegende Holländer), Opera Australia (Carmen),
Sydney Philharmonia (Elijah) and Washington
Concert Opera (Stiffelio).
He has
previously appeared in the United States with the
Metropolitan Opera (Boris Godunov, Peter Grimes, Don
Carlo), San Francisco Opera (Andrea Chénier, A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Der Rosenkavalier, Capriccio, La
bohème, Die Meistersinger, Pique Dame, Il Trovatore,
Tannhäuser, The Fiery Angel, Salome, Aïda),
Washington Opera (Il Guarany, Boris Godunov,
The Crucible, I Puritani, Otello, Tosca, Don Carlo),
Houston Grand Opera (Macbeth, Aïda, Don
Giovanni), San Diego Opera (Die Zauberflöte,
Der fliegende Holländer), Minnesota Opera (Faust),
Utah Opera (Fidelio), Palm Beach Opera (Samson
et Dalila), Washington Concert Opera (Il
Pirata) and Glimmerglass Opera at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music (L'incoronazione di Poppea).
An Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera Center from
1992 until 1994 he also toured the U.S. in Western Opera
Theater's mounting of La bohème and traveled with
that production to Japan.
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,
Evgeny Onegin, Simon Boccanegra, Les contes
d'Hoffmann, Tristan und Isolde, Tosca, Camen and
Salome. In 1988 he sang the role of Ramfis in the
Sydney season of the International Opera Festival's
production of Aïda, subsequently singing the role of
the King for their season in Tokyo, marking his
international debut. He was a San Francisco Opera Center/Merola
Opera Program participant in 1991, making his U.S. debut as
Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata. Mr. Sumegi made
his first European appearance in 1992 at Vienna's
Konzerthaus in concert performances of Bellini's
Beatrice di Tenda and made his British debut in
recital for the London Opera Festival at the Southbank
Centre. He also took part in the Barcelona Olympic Games
Arts Festival in the world premiere of the opera
Asdrùbila. In 1994 Daniel Sumegi made his Italian
debut 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 premiere 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.
Successful
in voice competitions the young artist is the recipient of
numerous scholarships and awards including the 1994
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions - Bruno Walter
Prize, and the 1995 William Mattheus Sullivan Foundation
Award. He was a winner of the Placido Domingo World Opera
Contest/Operalia 2, which was held in Madrid in October
1995, and a finalist in the 1992 Pavarotti/Philadelphia
Opera contest. He has won most of the singing prizes that
exist in Australia.
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, Donnald
Runnicles Sebastian Weigle and Edo de Waart.
Other
international engagements include: Paris Opera (Billy
Budd), Cologne Opera (Götterdämmerung),
Bonn Opera (Die Zauberflöte), Opera Nantes (Lady
Macbeth of Mtsensk), Welsh National Opera (Der
Rosenkavalier, Tosca), Vlaamse Opera (Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Teatro Municipal Santiago (I
Lombardi), Nationale Reisopera (Faust, Macbeth),
Oviedo Spain (Don Giovanni), State Opera of South
Australia (Aida, Der Ring des Nibelungen,
Parsifal, Verdi Requiem, Tosca), Opera
Australia (Aida, Barbiere, Faust, La Boheme, Samson et
Dalila, Simon Boccanegra, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Tristan
und Isolde, Carmen, Salome), Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven
Symphony No. 9, Mahler 8th,
Siegfried), Orquestra Sinfonica de Tenerife
(Beethoven 9th, Dvorak Stabat Mater), and
the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Richard Tucker Gala).
Daniel
Sumegi appears on CD in Beatrice di Tenda and on
video in the San Francisco Opera Production of Capriccio.
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