During the 2025-26 season, Brandon Cedel makes his HGO debut as Father Palmer in Silent Night. Elsewhere this season, he sings 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). In concert, his 2024-25 season included Haydn’s The Creation with Music of the Baroque conducted by Jane Glover; Mozart’s Requiem with the Handel & Haydn Society conducted by Jonathan Cohen; and Méphistophélès in Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra conducted by Guillermo Figueroa. 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 in Don Giovanni for the Metropolitan Opera and 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; Goulaud 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.