Luke Sutliff

This season American Baritone Luke Sutliff returns to the Atlanta Opera for two role debuts: Marcello in La Bohème and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte.  Later in the season he returns to the Houston Grand Opera, for his first Wolfram in Tannhäuser.  He will also appear as Marcello in La Bohème with Opera Maine.  In the summer he will make his Central City Opera debut as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.  In concert he makes his debut with the Nashville Symphony as the baritone soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Giancarlo Guerrero conducting.  Future engagements include debuts with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Canadian Opera Company, the Glyndebourne Festival and the Dallas Symphony.

In the summer of 2023 Luke Sutliff premiered the title-role in Nico Muhly version’s of Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Santa Fe Opera, then made a series of company and/or role debuts: Silvio in I Pagliacci with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Opera North Carolina and the Seattle Opera, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Atlanta Opera.  He returned to the Santa Fe Opera in the summer of 2024 to perform Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore.   In concert he debuted in Tokyo with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi as the baritone solo in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.

The Denver, Colorado native was a Second Prize 2023winner of the Operalia competition.  In 2022 he was a recipient of the Sara Tucker Study Grant (and in 2024 of the Richard Tucker Career Grant) from the Richard Tucker Foundation and the First Place winner from The 7th Annual Saengerbund Awards. In 2021 he was a finalist in the 33rd Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition at HGO, as well as a District Winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.