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Mr. Bliss sings with full-voiced intensity. You'll seldom hear a finer performance.The New York Times
2026 — 2027 Season
Mr. Bliss was most recently praised as "a peer of the best Toms in the opera's seven-decade history" (Voix des Arts) in The Rake's Progress at the Metropolitan Opera. The 2026–27 season sees him at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, returning to the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich as Alfredo in La Traviata, and at the Metropolitan Opera as Nikolaus Sprink in Kevin Puts's Silent Night. He also makes his role debut as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood for Beethoven's Ninth, and gives recitals at the Park Avenue Armory and Cal Performances.
Up Next
Duke of Mantua
September 5 – 25, 2026
Domingo Hindoyan conducts Bartlett Sher's production of Verdi's masterpiece, with Simon Keenlyside in the title role and Elena Villalón as Gilda. Mr. Bliss returns to the Berlin Staatsoper as the seductive Duke of Mantua.
Tickets & InfoNikolaus Sprink
March 8 – April 3, 2027
Kevin Puts's Pulitzer Prize-winning first opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce. Mr. Bliss sings the German tenor Nikolaus Sprink in James Robinson's evocative staging at the Met.
Tickets & InfoA New Book
The Practical Guide to Financial and Entrepreneurial Literacy for Freelancers in the Performing Arts. The book Mr. Bliss wishes someone had given him at the start of his career.