Born
in
Brisbane,
Australia,
Michael
Howard
graduated
from
the
New
South
Wales
Conservatorium
in
Sydney
in
1986.
After
winning
two
national
singing
competitions
he
left
Australia
to
continue
his
studies
with
the
late
Ken
Neate.
After
competing
in
the
Belvedere
International
Singing
Competition
in
Vienna,
he
was
engaged
by
the
Augsburg
Opera
in
Bavaria
as
principal
lyric
tenor
where
he
remained
under
contract
until
1992.
A
versatile
artist
whose
repertoire
spans
from
early
Baroque
to
contemporary
music,
opera,
operetta
and
concert
he
is
much
in
demand
in
Europe
and
has
sung
in
many
leading
opera
houses
including
Munich,
Hamburg,
Dresden,
Hanover,
Nuremberg,
Bayreuth,
Lyon,Turin,
Rome,
Milan,
Paris
and
Zurich.
After
his
success
at
La
Scala
Milan
in
1997
where
he
made
his
role
debut
as
Andres
in
Bergs
„Wozzeck,“
Michael
Howard
was
invited
to
return
in
1999
as
the
Jüngling
,
and
in
2000
as
the
Tanzmeister,
in
the
Strauss
operas
„Frau
ohne
Schatten“
and
„Ariadne
auf
Naxos“.In
1999
and
2000
he
debuted
at
the
Rome
Opera
as
Mime
in
Wagner’s
“Ring”
and
sang
the
same
role
in
the
Ring
Cycle
under
the
late
Maestro
Sinopoli
and
Adam
Fisher
at
the
Bayreuth
Festival
for
the
past
five
seasons.
In
2005
he
debuted
at
the
New
Israeli
Opera
in a
new
production
of
Berg’s
“Wozzeck”
and
will
sing
in
Monte
Carlo
and
Dublin
in
2006.
Michael
Howard
has
taken
part
in
radio
broadcasts
for
German
,Italian,
French
and
Swiss
Radio,and
recorded
for
Deutsche
Schallplatte
and
Deutsche
Grammophon.
A
new
recording
of
“Ariadne
auf
Naxos”
with
the
Australian,
released
in
2001
on
the
Deutsche
Grammophon
label,
was
nominated
for
a
Grammy
Award
in
the
USA
as
best
opera
recording
of
the
year. |
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