American tenor Michael Boley is rapidly climbing the operatic  ranks. A native of Ohio, Michael began his career with Columbus Opera. Mr. Boley appeared there in productions of La Bohème,  Aida, Rigoletto, Tosca, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte,  Susannah and Camelot. Of his Columbus Opera performances, the COLUMBUS DISPATCH extolled, “tenor Michael Boley sings  

with operatic power and resonance—a true find!” 

An exponent of the romantic French and Italian repertoire, recent  performance highlights for the tenor include the title role in Les  Contes de Hoffmann, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Pinkerton in  Madama Butterfly, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, Lenski in  Eugene Onegin and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte.

 

Career highlights  for the tenor include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Helena  Symphony Orchestra, Calaf in Turandot for Mississippi Opera,  

the world premiere of Anton Coppola’s La Coupe et les Lèvres at  

the Danny Kaye Playhouse in New York City with Inter-Cities Performing Arts and The Crucible at the  National Theatre of Pécs and the Szeged National Theater in Hungary with performances telecast  internationally. 

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With Dicapo Opera in New York City and on tour with National Lyric Opera, Mr. Boley created a  significant impression in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West. Reviewing his performance, the CAPE COD  TIMES was effusive in praise of his craft, “Outstanding among these, was tenor Michael Boley. Boley’s  firm ringing tenor and suave stage demeanor augur well for a rewarding career in opera.” Further  successes include his turn as the Chevalier de Danceny in Susa’s The Dangerous Liaisons, and the  Beast in Giannini’s Beauty and the Beast for Dicapo Opera, of which the NEW YORK TIMES commented,  "Michael Boley sang the Beast ardently." 

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The 2011/2012 season included Scriabin’s Symphony No. 1 with Helena Symphony Orchestra, Eurofest with Opera Naples and Carmen with Denyce Graves in a critically acclaimed production for Opera  Charleston.

 

The 2012/2013 season featured the tenor as Cléon in Gluck’s rarely performed The  Reformed Drunkard for Little Opera Theater of New York, Lenski in Eugene Onegin for Opera Company  of Middlebury and Rodolfo in La Bohème with Staten Island Philharmonic among others.

 

In the  2014-2015 and 2015-2016 seasons, Michael was a Resident Artist with Opera San Jose, where he  assumed principal assignments in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Weiser’s Where Angels Fear to Tread, Mozart’s Die  Zauberflöte, Puccini's Tosca, Bizet's Carmen, and Previn's Streetcar Named Desire.

 

In 2017, Mr. Boley  returned to New York to be a part of New York City Opera’s critically acclaimed Candide directed by Hal  Prince and again in the fall to sing the part of Nick while covering Dick Johnson in New York City Opera’s  production of La Fanciulla del West.

 

The 2018 season not only brought the tenor his Carnegie Hall debut  but in his portrayal of Calaf with Mississippi Opera’s Turandot “...he (Michael Boley) brought the house  down with his rendition of ‘Nessun Dorma’ in the third act.” (NORTHSIDE SUN/JACKSON MS). 

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Upcoming performances include the world premier of Vincent to Theo: The life of an artist by Sue T.  Klausmeyer (A song cycle with poetry taken from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo),  among others.