This season at HGO, Grammy Award-winning baritone Daniel Belcher, a Butler Studio alumnus, performs the role of Officer Krupke in West Side Story. His previous roles with the company include Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music (2024), Lawrence in The Wreckers (2022), James Addison Mills III in the world premiere of A House without a Christmas Tree (2017), Taddeo in The Italian Girl in Algiers (2012), the title role in Billy Budd (2008), Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (2005), Papageno in The Magic Flute (2004), Schaunard in La bohème (2002), John Brooke in Little Women (2000 and world premiere in 1998), and the title role in Orfeo (1999), among others. With a repertoire of more than 90 roles, Belcher has championed roles from the Baroque to those composed expressly for him. He came to international attention in 2004 creating the role of Prior Walter in Peter Eötvös’s Angels in America for the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. In fall 2023 he joined the faculty at the University of Houston, and throughout the 2022-23 season served as the resident artist voice teacher with Opera Colorado, where he also performed the role of Fritz/Frank in Die Tote Stadt. In the 2021-22 season, Belcher joined the Metropolitan Opera for Akhnaten and Rigoletto.