born in Wisconsin, USA

Training

Bayerische Staatsoper Opernstudio

Glimmerglass Festival Opera YAP

Opera Theater of St. Louis YAP

Music Academy of the West

Oberlin Conservatory B.A.

Mentors

Tobias Truniger (Bayerische Staatsoper)

Marlene Rosen (Oberlin Conservatory)

Margreet Honig

John Norris

Rudolf Piernay

Richard Trimborn

Houses

Bayerische Staatsoper

Zurich Opera

Glyndebourne Festival

Händel Festspiele Göttingen

Theater Bielefeld

Theater Chemnitz

Luzerner Theater

Konzert Theater Bern

Landestheater Detmold

Staatstheater Cottbus

Theater Hagen

Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater

Tiroler Landestheater

Opera Theatre of St. Louis

Glimmerglass Festival Opera

Madison Opera

Cleveland Opera

Toledo Opera

In Concert

Cleveland Orchestra

Lucerne Festival Strings

Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie

Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

Berner Symphonyorchester

Residenz Festspiele Darmstadt

NWD Philharmonie

Musikwerk Luzern

Todd Boyce graduated from Oberlin Conservatory and was a member of the Opera Studio at the Bayerische Staatsoper. After two seasons in Munich, he briefly joined the ensemble at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, Austria, under the direction of the world-famous mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender, before heading to Switzerland, where he spent a combined ten seasons in Luzern and Bern giving hundreds of performances in leading roles of the Lyric and Kavalier-Baritone fachs. Often praised for the flexibility, power, and noble quality of his voice, he feels at home in all musical genres. He has been invited for guest productions at Zürich Opera, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the International Händel Festspiele Göttingen, Staatstheater Cottbus, Theater Hagen, and Landestheater Detmold, among others, and performs regularly in concert and recital. This season he will give concerts at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden under the baton of Mark Elder, as well as New Year’s concerts with Landestheater Detmold and his own Liederabend with Lied et Melodie in Geneva, Switzerland. Among his very first engagements were concerts with The Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, and he has had the honor to work with some of the most sought-after conductors on the world stage, such as Marco Armiliato, Christian Curnyn, Laurence Cummings, Ottavio Dantone, Kevin John Edusei, James Gaffigan, Stephen Lord, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Gianandrea Noseda, Kirill Petrenko, and Simone Young, among others.

Todd can also be seen this season as Figaro in the critically acclaimed production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Nadja Loschky at Theater Bielefeld, as Ford in Falstaff, and as David and other roles in Wims Hendrickx’s The Convert.

2011-2016

Luzerner Theater

ensemble baritone

2010-2011

Tiroler Landestheater

Ensemble baritone

2008-2010

Bayerische Staatsoper (Bavarian State Theater)

Operastudio member

2007, 2008

The Glimmerglass Festival Young Artist Program

2005, 2006

Opera Theater of St. Louis Gerdine Young Artist (2 years)

Music Academy of the West (2006)