Biography

Michael J. Scott’s current and future engagements include ŠAPKIN From the House of the Dead Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, ERSTER JUDE Salome and SCRIBE Khovanschina Grand Théâtre de Genève, ZWEITE JUDE Salome Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, DER OFFIZIER Reimann’s Ein Traumspiel Oper Halle, MINOS in Howard Moody’s Solar (world premiere) La Monnaie.

Recent work includes CASCA Battistelli’s Julius Caesar (world premiere) Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, HOST OF THE BALL/ VESTOVOJ/IVANOV War and Peace Grand Théâtre de Genève, LOGE Der Ring des Nibelungen and AHAB Elias Theater an der Wien, LIPPO FIORENTINO Street Scene Teatro Real, Madrid, POLICEMAN/OLD MAN/STUDENT The Nose Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, SPOLETTA Tosca Nationale Reisopera, TITORELLI/FLOGGER/STUDENT Glass’ The Trial Theater Magdeburg. and ERSTER JUDE Salome Teatro Comunale di Bolzano, Teatro Comunale di Modena and Teatro Municipale di Piacenza. As a member of the Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp he sang SLIMBROEK Der Schmied von Gent, MARQUIS The Gambler, MALCOLM Macbeth, KOMMISSAR CLEMENS Les Bienveillantes (world premiere), FATTY Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, MONOSTATOS Die Zauberflöte, SOPEL Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko, SYPHAX Der König Kandaules, SCRIBE Khovanshchina, TATTERED PEASANT Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk, ERSTER GEHARNISCHTER Die Zauberflöte, and HAUSHOFMEISTER Der Rosenkavalier.

Michael has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a Masters from the Royal College of Music. On the concert platform he has sung Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Bryn Athyn Symphony and the Cambridge Sinfonia and has given recitals in New York, Florence and London. Besides singing, Michael was a member of the first-ever Royal College of Music team that competed on BBC’s University Challenge.