Michael Galvin

American bass-baritone Michael Galvin has garnered a reputation as a “distinguished and disarming” young singer (Rochester City Newspaper).

Based in Boston, Michael has joined the Boston Lyric Opera for their productions of Cavalleria Rusticana, Champion, and La Boheme. He is also a resident artist with Calliope’s Call, a Boston-based Art Song coalition. This season, Michael also performed a new work, Iphigenia, at the Kennedy Center with Real Magic and Octopus Theatrics.  

An avid Baroque singer, Michael is an alumnus of the 2019 Boston Early Music Festival Young Artist Training Program, where he sang the role of Soroastro in Handel’s Orlando. Michael continues collaborations with BEMF in the 2023 festival season. Previous baroque opera credits include Seneca in L’incoronazione di Poppea with Eastman Opera Theatre; Plutone in Eumelio (Agazzari) with Cornell Early Music Lab; Plutone/Augure in L’Orfeo (Rossi) with Eastman Collegium Musicum. Michael sang for two years in the Eastman Collegium Musicum under the tutelage of renowned lutenist Paul O’Dette, performing various roles in Fairy Queen and King Arthur.

Michael holds a Master of Music in Voice from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Music in Voice from Ithaca College.

Michael continually seeks to champion the work of Queer creators in Classical Music. Through his drag persona Donatella Fermata, Michael programs operatic cabaret performances and does community engagement to amplify the voices of Queer artists in his field.