Baritone
World
American baritone Dean Murphy is currently a member of the ensemble at Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he has already been part of many productions, also with leading roles such as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Silvio in Pagliacci, Prince Yeletsky in a new production of The queen of spades, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Marcello in La bohème, Germont in La traviata.
Other highlights of his career are Schaunard in La bohème at Semperoper Dresden, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Royal Opera Copenhagen and at San Diego Opera, Prince Ottokar in Der Freischütz at Theater an der Wien, Italian debut at Teatro La Fenice in Venice in Kurt Weill’s Der Protagonist, Marcello in La bohème at Theater St. Gallen, Schaunard in La bohème at Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp, Paolo Orsini in Wagner’s Rienzi at Müpa Budapest under the baton of Marc Albrecht, his debut in France at Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy and at Opéra de Dijon as Jean in Boesman’s Julie.
From 2018 to 2020 he was a member of the International Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich, where he appeared as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Schaunard in La bohème, as well as in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Die Gezeichneten, Andreas Homoki’s new production of Sweeney Todd, Christof Loy’s new production of Don Pasquale and Tatjana Gürbaca’s new production of Le Grand Macabre.
Dean Murphy as also been a member of Accademia Rossiniana of Rossini Opera Festival, where he sang as Don Alvaro & Lord Sidney in Il Viaggio a Reims, and he has distinguished himself in several international singing competitions, being a finalist at “Tenor Viñas” Competition in Barcelona (2020) and a finalist at “Moniuszko” Vocal Competition of Polish National Opera (2022).
Dean Murphy obtained his Master of Music from Yale School of Music and holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the Hartt School of Music.
LATEST PERFORMANCES: La traviata (Germont) in Berlin; Il barbiere di Siviglia at San Diego Opera; Le nozze di Figaro (Count Almaviva) and Tristan un Isolde (Melot) in Berlin; La bohème in St. Gallen; Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas) at Blackwater Valley Music Festival (Ireland); Kurt Weill’s Der Protagonist at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia; Il barbiere di Siviglia at Royal Opera Copenhagen.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS:Il barbiere di Siviglia and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Berlin; Of Mice and Men (Slim) at Des Moines Metro Opera; Le nozze di Figaro in Tanglewood with Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons; Lucia di Lammermoor at Berkshire Festival; Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor in Klagenfurt; Le nozze di Figaro at Boston Lyric Opera and San Diego Opera.
