Bryan Hymel, recipient of the 2013 Beverly Sills Award and the 2013 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, is a frequent guest at the world’s leading opera houses, having performed at The Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, the Opéra National de Paris, the Bavarian State Opera, the Teatro alla Scala, the Vienna State Opera, and the San Francisco Opera.
His repertoire includes iconic roles such as Énée in Les Troyens, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Don José in Carmen, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, Faust in La Damnation de Faust, Henri in Les Vêpres siciliennes, Arnold in Guillaume Tell, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Romeo in Roméo et Juliette, Alfredo in La Traviata, Prince in Rusalka, as well as the leading roles in Robert le diable, Faust, and Don Carlo.
In concert, he has appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Nashville Symphony, The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, and the PKF – Prague Philharmonia.
Hymel studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia with Bill Schuman and participated in the Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera Center.