Biography

Northumbrian bass-baritone Michael Ronan is an up-and-coming artist praised for his ‘commanding voice and stage presence’ (Evening Standard). He has recently finished a season as a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne performing the roles of Masetto in Don Giovanni, The Keeper of the Madhouse in The Rakes Progress (and cover Nick Shadow), and 2^eme Commissaire in Dialogues des Carmélites.

Michael has seen recent success as the winner of both Glyndebourne’s 2023 John Christie Award, and the Royal Academy of Music’s 2022 Bicentenary Prize with his winning performance described as ‘outstandingly moving’. He has also been awarded the Joan Chissell Schumann Lieder Prize, the Sir Thomas Armstrong English Song Prize, and the Blyth-Buesst Opera Prize.

With Royal Academy Opera Michael has performed Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Don Inigo Gomez in Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole, Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, and Quince in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has sung Polyphemus in Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Ensemble OrQuesta, and John Proctor in The Crucible by Robert Ward at OPERNFEST, Berlin.

In 2024 Michael will make his debut at Wuppertal Opera House as Herr Reich in Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor.

Award: John Christie Award 2023