Baritone
American baritone Todd Boyce joined the ensemble of Theater Bielefeld in the autumn 2022. There he has sung the title role in Eugene Onegin, Ford Falstaff, Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia, Falke Die Fledermaus, Miles Black in MacRae's Anthropocene, Bussy in Leoncavallo's Zazà and roles in Hendrickx' opera The Convert. This season he will be performing the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Stanley Kowalski A Streetcar Named Desire and in Valtinoni's fairy tale opera Alice in Wonderland.
Among recent guest appearances have been Pelléas Pelléas et Mélisande at Bühnen Bern, Danilo Die lustige Witwe with Landestheater Detmold, Staatstheater Cottbus, Theater Hagen and Germont La Traviata at Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater. He made his house debut at Oper Zürich as Melot Tristan und Isolde and revived the role in 2024 with Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and at Musikhuset Aarhus, alongside Camilla Nylund and Jonas Kaufmann, conducted by Sir Mark Elder. This season he will appear at Staatstheater Cottbus in the role of Melchior Böhni in Zemlinsky's Kleider machen Leute.
From 2016 until 2021 he was a member of the ensemble at Theater Bern, where his repertoire included Don Giovanni, Conte Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Alfonso Così fan tutte (on short notice also at Oper Zürich), Papageno Die Zauberflöte, Falke Die Fledermaus, Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Valentin Faust, Marcello La Bohème, Sharpless Madama Butterfly, Roland Fierrabras, Clodomiro Lotario, with a guest performance at Händel-Festspiele Göttingen and Robert Walser in a world premiere of Die Formel by T. Rasch.
Todd Boyce was a soloist at Luzerner Theater 2011-2016 performing roles such as Marcello La Bohème, Germont La Traviata, Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor, Malatesta Don Pasquale, Dandini La Cenerentola, Don Alvaro Il Viaggio a Reims, Harlekin Ariadne auf Naxos, Demetrius A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fred/Petruchio Kiss Me, Kate, the title role of Sweeney Todd, and Victor in the world premiere of Die Antilope by J.M. Staud.
Todd Boyce is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory. After young artist programs in the USA, he was a member of the opera studio at Bayerische Staatsoper 2008-2010. He was finalist at the Houston Grand, Belvedere, IVC, Montserrat Caballé and the Ernst Haefliger Competition (3rd Prize). Among his first roles were Conte Le Nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Masetto Don Giovanni, Dandini La Cenerentola, Top The Tenderland and Vicar Albert Herring. 2010-2011 he performed Sid Albert Herring at Tiroler Landestheater.
In concert he has performed a.o. Händel's Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium, Haydn's Die Schöpfung, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Fauré’s Requiem, Puccini's Messa di Gloria, Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, 5 Rückert Lieder, Kindertotenlieder, Poulenc's Chansons villageoises, Orff's Carmina Burana, Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles, Elegy for J.F.K., Finzi's In Terra Pax, Vaughan-Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem and Fantasia on Christmas Carols.
