Arthur Espiritu

Current and future projects of American tenor Arthur Espiritu include RODERIGO Otello The Metropolitan Opera, Mozart Requiem Opera Carolina, RICCARDO Un Ballo in Maschera Oper Bonn, PRINZ Rusalka, RODOLFO La Bohème Oper Köln, EDGARDO Lucia di Lammermoor Oper Leipzig, LEICESTER Maria Stuarda Irish National Opera, ALFREDO La Traviata Theater Basel and Don Carlo (title role) and POLLIONE Norma Oper Klosterneuburg.

Recent engagements were WLADIMIR Fürst Igor Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, ELVINO La Sonnambula, LEICESTER and RODOLFO Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, ALFREDO Staatsoper Hannover, CASSIO Otello Oper Frankfurt, GUALTIERO Il Pirata and Gounod’s FAUST (title role) Theater St. Gallen, RODOLFO Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, RODOLFO and THE SHEPHERD King Roger Sydney Opera House, DUCA Rigoletto St. Margarethen Summer Festival and concerts with the Munich Symphony.

In past seasons Arthur Espiritu sang RINUCCIO Gianni Schicchi Oper Frankfurt, RAMIRO La Cenerentola Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, FERRANDO Così fan tutte Theater Basel, DUCA and ALFREDO Oper Klosterneuburg, RODOLFO Theater Magdeburg, FERNANDO La Favorita Theater St. Gallen Summer Festival Opera, ERNESTO Don Pasquale Oper Leipzig, and LAMPLIGHTER Manon Lescaut Baden-Baden Festival and FERRANDO in Michael Hampe’s staging of Cosi fan tutte Teatro alla Scala. Other guest appearance have included Théâtre des Champs-Élysée, Teatro Piccolo Milano, Santa Fe Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Theater of St.Louis, Marlboro Music Festival, Louisiana Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Brucknerhaus Linz, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, and Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall.

Arthur Espiritu was born in the Philippines and moved to the United States. He studied at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and at the University of New Orleans.