Michael Spyres as Siegmund in “Die Walküre” at the Bayreuth Festival

Double debut for Michael Spyres, who – on July 29 – sings his first Siegmund in “Die Walküre,” bowing for the first time at the Bayreuth Festival in a Valentin Schwarz production led by Simone Young. He will share the stage with Catherine Foster in the title role, Tomasz Konieczny as Wotan, Vida Miknevičiūtė as Sieglinde, Georg Zeppenfeld as Hunding, and Christa Mayer as Fricka in the leading roles. After singing his first Lohengrin this past winter, Siegmund is Michael Spyres’s second Wagnerian hero.

[Photo: Marco Borrelli]