ABOUT
American Bass-baritone Brandon Cedel is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and was an ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt from 2016-2019.
Highlights in his 2024/25 season include Dulcamara L’elisir d’amore in his debut for the English National Opera, Il Re Ariodante for Boston Baroque and Garibaldo Rodelinda in his debut for Garsington Opera. In concert he sings Haydn’s The Creation with Music of the Baroque/Jane Glover, Mozart’s Requiem with the Handel & Haydn Society/Jonathan Cohen and Méphistophélès in Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra/Guillermo Figueroa.
Recent appearances include the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Leporello Don Giovanni and Argante Rinaldo for the Glyndebourne Festival; the title role in Hercules for the Karlsruhe Handel Festival and the Komische Oper, Berlin; the title role in Don Giovanni for the Atlanta Opera; Dan Brown in the world premiere of The Hours with the Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin and subsequently at the Metropolitan Opera; Masetto Don Giovanni for the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Collatinus The Rape of Lucretia and Magnifico La Cenerentola for the Boston Lyric Opera; the title role in Le nozze di Figaro for Opera Philadelphia and the Stuttgart Staatsoper; Goulaud Pelléas et Mélisande for Des Moines Metro Opera and Colline La bohème and Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia for the Canadian Opera Company.
His many roles for Oper Frankfurt include Masetto, Sprecher Die Zauberflöte, Lieutenant Ratcliffe Billy Budd, Argante, Ariodate Serse, Cesare Angelotti Tosca, Brander La damnation de Faust and Achior in Mozart’s La Betulia Liberata.
Highlights
Highlights of Mr. Cedel’s recent seasons include performances at the Metropolitan Opera of the Porter in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk under the baton of James Conlon and a Flemish Deputy in Sir Nicholas Hytner’s production of Verdi’s Don Carlounder the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin; his UK and company debut as both Masetto and Leporello with the Glyndebourne Festival’s production of Don Giovanni conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada; his company and role debut as Isacio in Handel’s Riccardo Primo with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis; a return to Opera Philadelphia as the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, and his Kennedy Center debut recital with the Vocal Arts Society in Washington, D.C. He made his Metropolitan Opera company debut in their Summer Recital Series and his house debut as a Watchman in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten. Recent orchestral engagements include an appearance with the BBC Philharmonic at a concert featuring Bernstein’s Songfest, conducted by David Charles Abell, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski at the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, the role of Panthée in a concert performance with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Berlioz’s Les Troyens conducted by Charles Dutoit, and Schuman’s The Pilgrimage of the Rose with Le Festival de Lanaudiere.
