Downloads

---

Upcoming Engagements for 2024-2025 Include MADAMA BUTTERFLY, TOSCA, RIGOLETTO, and MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Engagements for 2023-24 include JOAN OF ARC; AN OPERA, MADAMA BUTTERFLY, AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS, IOLANTHE, CATS, and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Engagements for 2022-23 include THE SHAKESPEARE RIOTS, AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS, MACBETH (Role Debut), MADAMA BUTTERFLY, and I PAGLIACCI (Cover)

Engagements for 2021-22 include ELEKTRA, TRIAL BY JURY, RIGOLETTO, MADAMMA BUTTERFLY,  and LOHENGRIN

Engagements for 2019-20 include MESSIAH, LA TRAVIATA, MADAMMA BUTTERFLY, SUSANNAH and GOUNOD’S; Roméo et Juliette. 

Engagements during the 2018-19 include IL TABORRO (Metropolitan Opera Guild), TOSCA, CARMEN and NOYE’S FLUDDE (his Directorial Debut) and CARMEN in Narni, Italy. 

Engagements during the 2018-19 include MADAMMA BUTTERFLY, LA TRAVIATA and Der Freischütz.

Engagements during the 2017-18 include MADAMMA BUTTERFLY and LA TRAVIATA as well as MESSIAH at Lincoln Center.

Engagements during the 2016-17 season for Michael Nansel included 3 debuts in Title Roles Wichita Grand Opera in RIGOLETTO and NOAH’S FLOOD and with Bronx Opera in FALSTAFF. 

Engagements during the 2015-16 season for Michael Nansel include Rodrigo in DON CARLO with Wichita Grand Opera and Escamillo in CARMEN with Mississippi Opera and Baritone Soloist for the Ernest Block: Sacred Service at Carnegie Hall in NYC. 

During the 2014-15 season Michael Nansel sang the role of Scarpia in TOSCA with Mississippi Opera. Recent engagements during the 2013-14 season for Michael Nansel included a return to Wichita Grand Opera to sing the roles of Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Leuthold in Guillaume Tell and the Sacristan in Tosca.

Michael Nansel is an award-winning singer and actor. Best known as an opera singer, he is also an accomplished recitalist and concert artist, and appears frequently in musical theater classics. Between Opera and Musicals, Mr. Nansel has over 80-roles to his credit. He sings music from the Mozart to Sondheim, from Verdi to Rodger & Hammerstein. He was the Wichita Grand Opera Singer of the Year in 2012 and was the dual winner in 2003 of the Washington Area Theatre Community Honors for Outstanding lead actor in a musical and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. He has also twice been a member of Casts nominated for Helen Hayes Awards.

His voice has been described as “stentorian”, “rich” with “great vocal and emotional power”. Reviewers have also remark that his acting “communicates deep humanity”, can be “tender and anguished” and that he is “the top banana”. Mr. Nansel possesses a diverse repertoire ranging from the comedic Figaro (Barber of Seville), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni) and Belcore (L'Elisir d'Amore) to the dramatic Count Di Luna (Il Trovatore) and Escamillo (Carmen). Among his most widely acclaimed roles are the Di Luna, Iago (Otello), Figaro, as well as Danilo (The Merry Widow), and the Title Character in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. His concert credits include: Mendelsohn’s Elijah, Haydn's Creation, Mozart's Requiem, Faure's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Brahms’ Requiem, Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, and Block’s Sacred Service (Avodat Hakodesh).

He has been conducted by several Maestros of note include Julius Rudel, Plácido Domingo, Eugene Kohn, Marin Alsop, Steven Mercurio and Gregory Buchalter. Directors of note include Stephen Lawless, Jonathon Loy, Jayme McDaniel, James Marvel and Scott Schwartz. He has shared the stage with Joyce DiDonato, Salvatore Licitra, Yunah Lee, Denise Graves, Lucas Meachem, Samuel Ramey and Paul Plishka.

Mr. Nansel studies with Andrea DelGiudice and resides in the Washington, DC area with his wife of 38 years and their pack of dogs, lizards, and various fosters.