William Guanbo Su

is heralded by The New York Times for his "musical taste, honest execution of Handelian ornaments and bel canto filigree, and a solid voice."In the 2026–27 season, he returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Colline in La bohème and Angelotti in Tosca. He makes role debuts with Dallas Opera as Timur in Turandot and Seattle Opera as Nilakantha in Lakmé, and sings Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte with Florentine Opera. He returns to Santa Fe Opera and Fort Worth Opera as Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and also appears at Santa Fe Opera as Male Consort and The Executioner in the American premiere of Brett Dean's Of One Blood. Future seasons include further returns to the Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Irish National Opera.Last season, he returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Masetto in Don Giovanni and to Santa Fe Opera as Garibaldo in Rodelinda. He also made debuts with Los Angeles Opera as Colline in La bohème, Irish National Opera as Oroveso in Norma, and The English Concert as the title role of Handel's Hercules on a tour of the United Kingdom and United States.His recent operatic performances include Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Seattle Opera; Publio in La clemenza di Tito with Staatsoper Hamburg; Blitch in Susannah with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Angelotti in Tosca with Austin Opera; Colline in La bohème with Dallas Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, and Utah Opera; Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Nashville Opera; The Speaker in The Magic Flute, as well as Angelotti and The Jailer in Tosca, at the Metropolitan Opera; Alidoro in La Cenerentola with Opera Maine; Somnus and Cadmus in Semele with Atlanta Opera; and Bonze in Madama Butterfly with Houston Grand Opera and the Grand Teton Music Festival. At the Aspen Music Festival, he performed Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Garibaldo in Rodelinda.On the concert stage, he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Cecilia Chorus of New York in Bach's Christmas Oratorio and returned the following season for Handel's Messiah. He has also appeared with the American Symphony Orchestra as Simon in Handel's Judas Maccabaeus and in Martinů's The Epic of Gilgamesh, and has performed Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.A former member of the prestigious Houston Grand Opera Studio, he performed Zuniga in Carmen, First Officer in Dialogues des Carmélites, Second Armed Man in Die Zauberflöte while covering Sarastro, Mandarin in Turandot while covering Timur, and Duke of Verona in Roméo et Juliette. He also performed the Usher in Rigoletto; his scheduled performances as Sparafucile were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.As a participant in the Académie Vocal Residence at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, he sang the Demon in Pergolesi's Li prodigi della divina grazia nella conversione e morte di San Guglielmo Duca d'Aquitania with Les Talens Lyriques.As an Opera for Peace Ambassador, he performed Verdi's "O tu Palermo" from I vespri siciliani for the organization's digital World Opera Day 2020 concert.He is also a former Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where he performed Count Ceprano in Rigoletto and covered Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro. He joined Lyric Opera of Chicago's Lyric Unlimited for Perla's An American Dream. While at The Juilliard School, he performed Commendatore in Don Giovanni and Pluton in Hippolyte et Aricie.Mr. Su is a Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Grand Finals Winner and Second Prize Winner of the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition. He won First Prize in the 2017 Liederkranz Foundation Song/Lieder Competition and Third Prize in the 2018 Gerda Lissner Opera Competition.He received his Master of Music from The Juilliard School and his Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, and completed additional studies at the Franz Schubert Institute in Austria.