This season, flourishing tenor Bryan Hymel returns to the Royal Opera House to sing the Prince in their first-ever staging of Rusalka. Mr. Hymel continues his 2011/2012 Season performing the title roles in Faust with Lyric Opera Baltimore and Robert Le Diable in Salerno, Italy with the Teatro Municipale.

Last season Mr. Hymel made his debut at Teatro alla Scala singing Don José in Carmen, a role he later reprised at the Bayerische Staatsoper. He then returned to the Santa Fe Opera to sing the title role in Faust. Mr. Hymel has appeared in many of the world’s most accomplished Opera Houses and festivals. He sang Énée in the Pierre Audi production of Les Troyens with De Nederlandse Opera; Pinkerton in a revival of the late director Anthony Minghella's production of Madama Butterfly at English National Opera and with the Canadian Opera Company; Don José in Carmen with the Canadian Opera Company and in Royal Opera House, Covent Garden’s filmed 3D version. Mr. Hymel mad his European debut as the Prince in Rusalka at the Wexford Festival Opera and has appeared as Luigi in Il tabarro and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi with New Orleans Opera, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Palm Beach Opera, and Guido in Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy at the Bard Festival under the direction of Leon Botstein.

A sought-after recitalist and concert performer, Mr. Hymel made his New York recital debut with Michelle DeYoung under the auspices of the George London Foundation; his Carnegie Hall debut with Opera Orchestra of New York, in a gala concert also featuring Renée Fleming, Marcello Giordani, and Dolora Zajick; and London recital debut on the Rosenblatt Recital Series; and also appeared as Don José in a concert performance of Carmen with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Caracas, Venezuela, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

Among his accolades, New Orleans native Bryan Hymel is the Top Prize Winner of the 2009 Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, and First-Prize Winner of the 2008 Licia Albanese/Puccini Foundation Competition, the 2008 Loren L. Zachary Vocal Competition, and the 2008 Giulio Gari Foundation Competition. He was a grand finalist in the 2000 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

His European debut was as the Foreign Prince in Dvorak’s Rusalka at the Wexford Festival Opera in 2007, and he made his New York recital debut with Michelle DeYoung under the auspices of the George London Foundation (Mr. Hymel won the George London Award in 2007). He made his Carnegie Hall debut with Opera Orchestra of New York in a gala concert also featuring Renée Fleming, Marcello Giordani, and Dolora Zajick, and has been heard as Luigi in Il tabarro and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi with New Orleans Opera, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Palm Beach Opera, and Guido in Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy at the Bard Festival under the direction of Leon Botstein.

Bryan studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia under Bill Schuman and also participated in San Francisco Opera Center’s Merola Program