Grammy Award-winning baritone Daniel Belcher has performed in many of the world’s music capitals, including Paris, London, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Geneva, Madrid, Toronto, Montreal, Tokyo, Seoul, and Houston. With a repertoire of nearly 100 roles, Daniel has championed roles from the Baroque to those composed expressly for him. He came to international attention in 2004 creating the role of Prior Walter in Peter Eötvös’s Angels in America for the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for which he was hailed by London’s The Guardian as “possessing the kind of powerhouse stuff that indicates a star in the making.” He received his Grammy Award in 2011 for the role of Jaufré Rudel in Kaija Saariaho and Amin Maalouf’s L’Amour de loin under the baton of Kent Nagano on the Harmonia Mundi label. He also premiered Saariaho’s Sombre at the Rothko Chapel in Houston.

Daniel recently created the roles of Inspector Kildare in Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s Elizabeth Cree at Opera Philadelphia, James Addison Mills III in Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek’s The House Without a Christmas Tree at Houston Grand Opera (recorded on the Pentatone label), Lord Bellingham in Lori Laitman’s The Scarlet Letter at Opera Colorado (released on the Naxos label), Brian Castner in Jeremy Howard Beck’s The Long Walk at Opera Saratoga, and Robert Kennedy in Robin de Raaff’s Waiting for Miss Monroe in his debut at The Netherlands Opera and Holland Festival. Other world premiere roles include John Brooke in Mark Adamo’s Little Women (released on the Ondine label and recorded by PBS’s Great Performances) and Andy Warhol in Michael Daugherty’s Jackie O (released by Decca on the Argo label).

He previously appeared at the Detroit Opera as Father Palmer in Silent Night by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell.

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