Stephen Lusmann

During the course of his rich operatic career, baritone Stephen Lusmann has sung over forty leading roles with major opera houses including the Oper der Stadt Bonn, Opera de Monte Carlo, Stadttheater Luzern, Washington Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Boston Lyric Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Carolina, Opera Columbus, Anchorage Opera, Utah Opera, Opera Birmingham, Connecticut Grand Opera, Dayton Opera, Artpark, and tours with the New York City Opera under important conductors and directors including Leonard Slatkin, Christopher Keene, Bertrand de Billy, Franco Zefferelli, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Gian Carlo del Monaco. As an active concert soloist he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the Anchorage Festival of Music, Chautauqua Institute, and with numerous symphony orchestras such as the Buffalo Philharmonic, Sinfonieorchester Luzern, West Virginia Symphony, Little Orchestra Society of New York, and the Canton Symphony.

On recording Mr. Lusmann may be heard in Richard Strauss' opera "Der Friedenstag" recorded at Carnegie Hall on the Koch International label, "Operngala" recorded at the Konzerthaus Luzern, Switzerland on Tonstudio AMOS, and on "E. E. CUMMINGS: An American Circus" songs by Logan Skelton recorded on the Centaur Records label.

Stephen Lusmann is Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Michigan and is also a member of the voice faculty at the Seagle Music Colony.