This season at HGO, Butler Studio alumnus Luke Sutliff performs the role of Wolfram von Esechenbach in Tannhäuser. Previous HGO roles include a Cappadocian in Salome (2023), Brühlmann in Werther (2023), Harvey in The Wreckers (2022), M. Javelinot/Thierry in Dialogues of the Carmelites (2022), and El Dancairo in Carmen (2021). Elsewhere during the 2024-25 season he performs Marcello in La bohème and Papageno in The Magic Flute with Atlanta Opera. Other recent operatic appearances include Belcore in The Elixir of Love with Santa Fe Opera, Silvio in Pagliacci at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Figaro in The Barber of Seville with Seattle Opera and North Carolina Opera, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with  Atlanta Opera, and a concert performance of Mahler’s Symphony No.8 with NHK Symphony Orchestra. At the Rice Shepherd School of Music, he appeared as Kaiser Overall in Der Kaiser von Atlantis and Johannes Zegner in Proving Up. Sutliff was awarded the 2nd Prize in the 2023 Operalia Competition and recently received the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation. He received the Richard Tucker Career Grant and the Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation and a Career Development Grant from The Sullivan Foundation. He is the first-place winner of the 7th Annual Saengerbund Awards. In 2021, he was a finalist in the 33rd Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition at HGO and a District Winner in The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.