Stephen Lusmann, baritone, has sung over forty leading roles with major opera houses. including the Oper der Stadt Bonn, Opera de Monte Carlo, Stadttheater Luzern, Washington National Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Kentucky Opera, Connecticut Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Opera Carolina, Anchorage Opera, Utah Opera, Opera Birmingham, Dayton Opera, Gold Coast Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Chicago Opera Theater, Artpark, and tours with the New York City Opera. He has sung with important conductors and directors including Leonard Slatkin, Christopher Keene, Bertrand de Billy, Franco Zefferelli, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Gian Carlo del Monaco. As an active concert soloist he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, Chautauqua Institute, Hill Auditorium, the Music Festival of Pettoranello, Italy and with numerous symphony orchestras including the Buffalo Philharmonic, Sinfonieorchester Luzern, West Virginia Symphony, Little Orchestra Society of New York, Canton Symphony, and Shreveport Symphony. His concert repertoire includes Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Vaughn Williams’ Sea Symphony, Mahler’s Ruckert Lieder, and numerous Bach Cantatas, Passions, and the B Minor Mass. On Recording he may be heard in Richard Strauss’ opera Der Friedenstag recorded at Carnegie Hall on the Koch International label, Operngala recorded at the Konzerthaus Luzern, Switzerland on Tonstudio AMOS, and on E.E. Cummings: An American Circus, songs by Logan Skelton recorded on the Centaur Records label. Stephen Lusmann is Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance and is also a member of the voice faculty at the Seagle Music Colony.