William Guanbo Su

William Guanbo Su returns to the Metropolitan Opera this season as the Speaker in The Magic Flute as well as to Houston Grand Opera as the Bonze in Madama Butterfly. He makes company debuts with Seattle Opera as Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Santa Fe Opera as Masetto in Don Giovanni, and Utah Opera as Colline in La bohème. He also joins the American Symphony Orchestra as Simon in Handel’s Judas Maccabeus. Coming seasons see debuts with Staatsoper Hamburg, Dallas Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Nashville Opera, and returns to the Metropolitan Opera.

Recent performances include Blitch in Susannah (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Colline in La bohème (Boston Lyric Opera); Alidoro in La Cenerentola (Opera Maine); Bonze in Madama Butterfly (Grand Tetons Music Festival); Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Angelotti in Tosca (Austin Opera); Jailer in Tosca (Metropolitan Opera); and Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Garibaldo in Rodelinda (Aspen Opera Festival).

He is a former member of the Butler Studio of the Houston Grand Opera at which he sang roles in Carmen, Dialogues des Carmélites, Die Zauberflöte, Turandot, Rigoletto, and Roméo et Juliette. His concert performances include the Demon in Pergolesi’s Li prodigi della divina grazia nella conversione e more di San Guglielmo Duca di Aquitaina (Les Talent Lyriques at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence) and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah (Cecelia Chorus of New York).

He is a 2019 national Grand Finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. Learn more at www.sempreartists.com/william-guanbo-su.