Michael Spyres was born in Missouri, US, and studied singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria.
[4] He made his debut at La Scala, Milan, in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims in 2009 [3] and appeared the same year in the demanding leading role of Raoul in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots at Bard SummerScape in New York.
[5] Since then, his career has taken him to the Royal Opera House, London, in the title role of Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto,[3] to the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and La Monnaie, Brussels, as Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell,[6] to Opéra National de Bordeaux for the title role in Berlioz' La damnation de Faust[7] and to the Liceu, Barcelona, in the title role of Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann,[8] among many other engagements both in concerts and staged operas.
[9] Spyres won widespread praise for his performance of the role of Vasco da Gama in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine at the Oper Frankfurt in 2018.
[10] He sang the title role in a new production of Adam's Le postillon de Lonjumeau at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in March 2019.