The American tenor Michael Porter received his musical training at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the winner of the Encouragement Award of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Northwest Region) and of the Barbara and Stanley Richman Award. He gained his first stage experience on the training programmes of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and the Seagle Festival, and made his debut at the Fort Worth Opera in 2013 as Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos).
Michael Porter became a permanent member of the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera following a season in the company’s Opera Studio. He has appeared with the company in roles including David (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), the Steersman (Der fliegende Holländer), Hylas (Les Troyens), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Camille de Rosillon (Die lustige Witwe), Narraboth (Salome), Cassio (Otello) and Andres (Wozzeck). He has also sung Andres as a guest artist at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
His other guest engagements have included Fourth Esquire (Parsifal) at the Berlin State Opera, King in the world premiere of Saskia Bladt and Torsten Herrmann’s Tonguecat and Second Jew (Salome) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Ernesto (Don Pasquale) at the Oldenburg State Theatre, Froh (Das Rheingold) at the Stuttgart State Opera and Second Jew at the Vienna State Opera. He has sung the tenor solo in Mozart’s Requiem with the Orquesta Nacional de España under David Afkham.
In summer 2018 Michael Porter made his Salzburg Festival debut as Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte).
