The US-American tenor Eric Cutler received his singing training at Luther College in Decorah (Iowa) and completed the Lindemann Young Artists Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 2005 he received the Richard Tucker Award.
He makes regular appearances at renowned opera houses and important festivals, including the Met, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Canadian Opera Company and the Santa Fe Opera, and the Salzburg Festival and the Glyndebourne Festival.
Having begun his career in Mozart and bel canto repertory, and in lyric roles by Bellini, Donizetti, Bizet and Gounod, Eric Cutler now appears in the young heroic tenor repertory.
In the 2025/26 season he focussed primarily on Wagner roles, including Siegmund (Die Walküre) under Christian Thielemann and Lohengrin at the Berlin State Opera, and Tannhäuser at the Zurich Opera House. He also made his role debut as Parsifal at the Semperoper Dresden, where he will return in 2027 in the same role.
His other future engagements will include a return to Zürich as Tannhäuser, and Walter von Stolzing (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and Erik (Der fliegende Holländer) at the Vienna State Opera, where he most recently appeared in 2022 as Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos).
