This season, baritone Daniel Teadt will make his role debut as Valentin in Faust with the Tacoma Opera. Other recent notable debuts have included the Count in the Aix-en-Provence Festival's 2007 production of Le Nozze di Figaro in Luxembourg, Cyrano with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, performances of Billy Budd (conducted by Daniel Harding) with the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Count with the Arizona Opera in a production directed by Sir Thomas Allen. An alumnus of the Pittsburgh Opera Center, his roles there included Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos, the title role in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Moralès in Carmen, and Curio in Guilio Ceasare. He recently returned to the Pittsburgh Opera for Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and Donald in Billy Budd ... read full bio

This season, baritone Daniel Teadt will make his role debut as Valentin in Faust with the Tacoma Opera. Other recent notable debuts have included the Count in the Aix-en-Provence Festival's 2007 production of Le Nozze di Figaro in Luxembourg, Cyrano with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, performances of Billy Budd (conducted by Daniel Harding) with the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Count with the Arizona Opera in a production directed by Sir Thomas Allen. An alumnus of the Pittsburgh Opera Center, his roles there included Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos, the title role in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Moralès in Carmen, and Curio in Guilio Ceasare. He recently returned to the Pittsburgh Opera for Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and Donald in Billy Budd.

Mr. Teadt studied with John Wustman at the University of Illinois where he also graduated with both his Bachelor and Master of Music Degree. He completed two summers with the San Francisco Opera's Merola Opera Center and was an apprentice artist with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and the Central City Opera. In the summer of 2005, he was a member of the The Académie européenne de musique of Aix-en-Provence and studied at the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival. He was recently a recipient of the 2004 William Matheus Sullivan Foundation Award. He was also awarded prizes by the McAllister Awards and the Palm Beach Opera Awards, and was a regional winner in the 2003 Metropolitan National Council Auditions.