born in Wisconsin, USA

Training

Bayerische Staatsoper Opernstudio

Glimmerglass Festival Opera YAP

Opera Theater of St. Louis YAP

Music Academy of the West

Oberlin Conservatory B.A.

Mentors

Tobias Truniger (Bayerische Staatsoper)

Marlene Rosen (Oberlin Conservatory)

Margreet Honig

John Norris

Rudolf Piernay

Richard Trimborn

Houses

Bayerische Staatsoper

Zurich Opera

Glyndebourne Festival

Händel Festspiele Göttingen

Theater Bielefeld

Theater Chemnitz

Luzerner Theater

Konzert Theater Bern

Landestheater Detmold

Staatstheater Cottbus

Theater Hagen

Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater

Tiroler Landestheater

Opera Theatre of St. Louis

Glimmerglass Festival Opera

Madison Opera

Cleveland Opera

Toledo Opera

In Concert

Cleveland Orchestra

Lucerne Festival Strings

Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie

Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

Berner Symphonyorchester

Residenz Festspiele Darmstadt

NWD Philharmonie

Musikwerk Luzern

Todd Boyce is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and former member of the Opera Studio at the Bayerische Staatsoper. After two seasons in Munich, he joined the ensemble of the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck under the direction of Brigitte Fassbaender, and soon afterward moved to Switzerland, where he spent a combined ten seasons with the theaters of Luzern and Bern. There, he appeared in hundreds of performances across the Lyric and Kavalier-Baritone repertoires, earning praise for the flexibility, power, and noble timbre of his voice. Equally at home across musical styles, he maintains an active career in opera, concert, and as a recitalist.

Boyce has been engaged for guest appearances at Opernhaus Zürich, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen, Staatstheater Cottbus, Theater Chemnitz, Tiroler Landestheater, Theater Hagen, and Landestheater Detmold, among others. Recent performances include concerts at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and in Aarhus, Denmark, under the baton of Sir Mark Elder and alongside Jonas Kaufmann and Camilla Nylund and a Liederabend in Geneva.

Among his earliest engagements were concerts with The Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst. Since then, he has collaborated with many of today’s most respected conductors, including Marco Armiliato, Christian Curnyn, Laurence Cummings, Ottavio Dantone, Kevin John Edusei, James Gaffigan, Stephen Lord, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Gianandrea Noseda, Kirill Petrenko, and Simone Young.

In 2022, Boyce joined the ensemble at the Theater in Bielefeld under the direction of Nadja Loschky. Some of his most noteworthy roles have included Figaro (Barbiere di Siviglia), the title roles of Don Giovanni and Eugene Onegin, Ford in Falstaff, Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, and Falke in Die Fledermaus. This season, he will appear there in a children’s production of Alice in Wonderland, as Ned Keene in Peter Grimes, and as Il Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore.

Future projects include a return to Staatstheater Cottbus as Melchior Böhni in Kleider machen Leute and as bass soloist for Bach’s Matthäus Passion (Arias, Peter, Pilot, and Judas) with the Bielefelder Oratorienchor.

2011-2016

Luzerner Theater

ensemble baritone

2010-2011

Tiroler Landestheater

Ensemble baritone

2008-2010

Bayerische Staatsoper (Bavarian State Theater)

Operastudio member

2007, 2008

The Glimmerglass Festival Young Artist Program

2005, 2006

Opera Theater of St. Louis Gerdine Young Artist (2 years)

Music Academy of the West (2006)