The Dallas Opera 2021-2022 - Madame Butterfly/Flight

11 MADAME BUTTERFLY Michael Adams (Sharpless) The Dallas Opera debut The American baritone has earned acclaim both in America and abroad. Career highlights have included appearances in prestigious European theaters singing Zurga in The Pearl Fishers (Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu); Marcello in La bohème (Grand Théâtre de Genève, where he also portrayed Melisso in Alcina and Masetto in Don Giovanni ); and the Deutsche Oper Berlin (appearances in Turandot , La traviata , and Cunning Little Vixen ). His many successes throughout America range from Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor (Knoxville Opera), Belcore in The Elixir of Love and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (both at Seattle Opera) to Lescaut in Manon , Ping in Turandot , and Donald in Billy Budd (all at Des Moines Metro Opera), Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat (Glimmerglass Festival), the Pilot in Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince and Lieutenant Audebert in Kevin Puts’ Silent Night (both at Washington National Opera). Adams is a former member of the Cafritz Young Artist program of Washington National Opera, where he sang Don Giovanni in Francesca Zambello’s production. He is a former Resident Artist of The Santa Fe Opera and a former first-place winner in the Gerda Lissner, Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, and Mario Lanza competitions. Martin Bakari (Goro) The Dallas Opera debut In recent seasons, the American tenor—a 2018 award winner of the George London Competition—has been featured as Charlie Parker in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (Atlanta, Arizona, Pittsburgh Operas), Ferrando in Così fan tutte (Syracuse Opera), Triquet in Eugene Onegin (Seattle Opera), and in concerts with Wynton Marsalis and The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. This season, Bakari is scheduled to make debuts at Carnegie Hall as the tenor soloist in Carmina Burana with the Cecilia Chorus of New York, Chicago Opera Theater as Prince Claus in Becoming Santa Claus , and Intermountain Opera Bozeman as Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville , and return to Seattle Opera as Don Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro and the Kennedy Center for the Cartography Project with Washington National Opera. Other recent engagements include The Magic Flute (Opéra Louisiane), La traviata and The Marriage of Figaro (Cincinnati Opera), Porgy and Bess (Seattle, Atlanta, Fort Worth Operas), and In the Penal Colony (Portland Opera). NY Harlem Productions’ Porgy and Bess tours have brought Bakari to Dresden, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne, Bari, Haifa, and Tel Aviv. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School and a former Tanglewood Fellow. Hyung Yun (Prince Yamadori) The baritone, a native of South Korea, has performed numerous roles at the Metropolitan Opera, including Valentin in Faust (with James Levine conducting), Ping in Turandot , Lescaut in Manon , and Silvio in Pagliacci . He made his LA Opera debut as Angelotti in Tosca and returned as Marcello in La bohème , Michelotto Cibo in Franz Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten , and Lescaut in Manon with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón, under the baton of Plácido Domingo. Yun debuted as Ping in Turandot with The Santa Fe Opera, and was subsequently heard in the company’s 50th-anniversary gala concert. He has also starred in the title role in Rigoletto with Ash Lawn Opera. Yun appeared in numerous concerts around New York City as part of the Met’s 2017 Summer Recital Series.