Nicholas Masters

Educated at Yale and then in the Houston Grand Opera Studio, the American-French bass Nicholas Masters came up through the young-artist programmes of Wolf Trap Opera and Glimmerglass, singing Colline in La bohème, Don Basilio, Bluebeard and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the bass solos in the Verdi and Dvořák concert works. He was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and won the Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition. In February 2014 he sang in Rossini's Guillaume Tell with Wichita Grand Opera, in a cast that also held Michael Spyres and Lucas Meachem.