Michel de Souza

Born in Brazil, Michel de Souza won the Maria Callas Vocal Competition in São Paulo and the Margaret Dick and Ye Cronies Competition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

He went on to join the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera Covent Garden. He also appears regularly in concert, including with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Proms, with L’Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestra of Scottish Opera and Theatro Municipal in São Paulo Brazil.

He was an Emerging Artist at Scottish Opera where his roles included Escamillo Carmen, Forester Cunning Little Vixen and Marullo Rigoletto. At ROH Covent Garden he appeared as Schaunard La Boheme, Morales Carmen, Flemish Deputy Don Carlo, the Captain Eugene Onegin, Angelotti Tosca and Mandarin and Ping Turandot.

He has performed the roles of Schaunard La Boheme, Baron Grog La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein, Leuthold Guillaume Tell and Starveling A Midsummer Nights Dream at Grand Théâtre de Genève and at Grange Park Opera he sang Sonora La Fanciulla del West and Grand Prêtre Samson et Dalila.

In South America he has performed the roles of Guglielmo Così fan Tutte at Teatro Argentino de la Plata, Belcore L’Elisir d’Amore and Conte Robinson Il Matrimonio Segreto at Theatro São Pedro, Papageno Die Zauberflöte at Theatro Municipal de São Paulo and Crown Porgy and Bess at Grande Teatro do Palácio das Artes de Belo Horizonte.