During HGO's 2026-27 season, Brandon Cedel performs as Speaker in The Magic Flute. He made his company debut last season performing as Father Palmer in Silent Night. Elsewhere during the 2026-27 season, he makes his debut at the Dallas Opera as Harasta in The Cunning Little Vixen and sings Angelotti in concert performances of Tosca with the Minnesota Orchestra under Thomas Søndergård. During the 2025-26 season, Cedel sang as Masetto in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro at Atlanta Opera. Highlights of his 2024-25 season included his debut as Dulcamara in The Elixir of Love (English National Opera); Il rè di Scozia in Ariodante (Boston Baroque); and Garibaldo in Rodelinda (Garsington Opera). Recent appearances include Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Leporello in Don Giovanni for the Glyndebourne Festival; the title role in Hercules for the Karlsruhe Handel Festival and the Komische Oper Berlin; the title role in Don Giovanni for the Atlanta Opera; Dan Brown in the world premiere of The Hours with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and at the Metropolitan Opera; Masetto for the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Collatinus in The Rape of Lucretia and Magnifico in Cinderella for the Boston Lyric Opera; the title role in The Marriage of Figaro for Opera Philadelphia and the Stuttgart Staatsoper; Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande for Des Moines Metro Opera; and Colline in La bohème and Basilio in The Barber of Seville for the Canadian Opera Company. Cedel is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and was an ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt from 2016-19.