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In the thirty-fifth year of his career, Daniel Sumegi has sung over one hundred operatic roles on many of the world\u2019s major stages \u2013 including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, as well as at Opera Australia. \xa0He has also appeared in the opera houses of Bonn, Cologne, Frankfurt and Hamburg, as well as Paris, Barcelona, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Houston among many others.\nRegarded also for his dynamic acting, his broad repertoire encompasses all periods of music \u2013 from Monteverdi and Mozart to Britten, Tippett and Puts. \xa0Equally comfortable as Strauss\u2019\xa0Baron Ochs,\xa0Mozart\u2019s\xa0Sarastro\xa0and\xa0Commendatore, Verdi\u2019s\xa0Grand Inquisitor\xa0and\xa0Sparafucile, Offenbach\u2019s\xa0Four Villains\xa0or Puccini\u2019s\xa0Scarpia, he has participated in\xa0Ring Cycles\xa0in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Strasbourg, Cologne, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Seattle, Melbourne and Adelaide, most notably as\xa0Hagen. \xa0He has additionally performed\xa0Hunding\xa0in concert for the Hong Kong, Atlanta, Stuttgart and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.\nDaniel\u2019s 2021/2022 engagements included\xa0Die Walk\xfcre\xa0(Singapore),\xa0Salome\xa0(Victorian Opera),\xa0Fidelio\xa0(Dublin) and\xa0Bluebeard\u2019s Castle,\xa0Aida\xa0and\xa0Lohengrin\xa0(Opera Australia).\nAmong other roles, he has sung\xa0Die Meistersinger von N\xfcrnberg\xa0(Pogner) for Opera Australia,\xa0Salome\xa0(Jochanaan) for New Israeli Opera,\xa0Der fliegende Holl\xe4nder\xa0(title role) for Malm\xf6 Opera in Sweden and\xa0Carmen\xa0(Zuniga) for Seattle Opera. \xa0He also undertook his music theatre debut, as Judge Turpin in Sondheim\u2019s\xa0Sweeney Todd, seen in Sydney and Melbourne. \xa0\nPast highlights include\xa0Don Carlo\xa0and\xa0Madama Butterfly\xa0(Metropolitan Opera),\xa0Der Rosenkavalier\xa0(Scottish and Welsh National Opera),\xa0Luisa Miller\xa0(San Francisco),\xa0Billy Budd\xa0and\xa0Rigoletto\xa0(Los Angeles),\xa0Parsifal\xa0(Hamburg, Barcelona, Adelaide),\xa0Salome\xa0(Washington, Hamburg, Leeds, Hong Kong),\xa0Der fliegende Holl\xe4nder, Aida, Beatrice and Benedict\xa0and\xa0Barbiere\xa0(Seattle),\xa0Manchurian Candidate\xa0(Minnesota, Austin), and more than 25 principal roles for Opera Australia.\nHe has collaborated with noted conductors such as James Conlon, Sir Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit, Dan Ettinger, Asher Fisch, Valery Gergiev, Nicola Luisotti, Sir Charles Mackerras, Yannick\xa0N\xe9zet-S\xe9guin, Renato Palumbo, Sir Simon Rattle, Carlo Rizzi, Donald Runnicles, Nello Santi, Sir Jeffrey Tate, Edo de Waart, Sebastian Weigle, and Simone Young.\nDaniel Sumegi appears on CD in\xa0Beatrice di Tenda\xa0and Seattle Opera\u2019s\xa0acclaimed Ring Cycle, and on DVD in the San Francisco Opera Production of\xa0Capriccio, Opera Australia\u2019s\xa0Don Giovanni,\xa0and the historic condensed\xa0Ring Cycle\xa0from Teatro Col\xf3n, Buenos Aires.\nIn December, he makes his role d\xe9but as Wotan/The Wanderer in OA\u2019s new production of\xa0Der Ring des Nibelungen.\nThe STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au