Ketelsen, Kyle

Bass-Baritone

(Sun Prairie, Wisconsin)

2025–26 Season: Orest, Elektra

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Escamillo in Carmen

Recent and Upcoming: Title role of Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera); Méphistophélès in Faust (Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Canadian Opera Company); Der Freischütz (Munich, Potsdam); Jochannan in Salome (Hamburg State Opera); Orest in Elektra (Hamburg); Christmas concert (Madison Symphony Orchestra); Leporello in Don Giovanni (Salzburg, Munich, Dallas, Lyon); Adahm in Rudi Stephan’s Die Ersten Menschen (Amsterdam’s Dutch National Opera); Howard in Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Escamillo in Carmen (Metropolitan Opera); Richard in Kevin Puts’ The Hours (Metropolitan Opera); Mozart Requiem (Chicago); Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande (Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza, LA Opera, Metropolitan Opera); Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (Chicago Symphony Orchestra); Count Rodolfo in La Sonnambula (Zurich); King of Scotland in Ariodante (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Méphistophélès in La Damnation de Faust (Les Siècles in Bonn); Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress (Amsterdam)

Winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (1998)