Steven Humes recently debuted in Torino as Rocco in Fidelio and returns next Fall as Daland in their season opening production of Der fliegende Holländer conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Other recent highlights include a performance of Parsifal in Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, a DVD release of Baden-Baden’s Salome (May 2011), a live online broadcast of Don Carlo in Munich (January 2012), a debut with the Salzburg Festival in 2011 with Die Frau ohne Schatten (also broadcast on European Television), a release of Teatro Real’s DVD Mahagonny (October 2010) and a concert in Vatican City where Steven was personally greeted by Pope Benedict XIV.
Next season’s calendar includes returns to many celebrated theaters as well as some house debuts. Steven sings Fafner in Das Rheingold and Siegfried in Wagner’s Ring Cycle with the Bayerische Staatsoper, and returns to the Hamburg Staatsoper as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte. He returns to Torino’s Teatro Regio as Daland in Der fliegende Holländer , and returns to Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Élysées as Commendatore in Don Giovanni. Next December, Steven joins the Chinese National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing as Koenig Heinrich in Lohengrin.