Luke Sutliff

Baritone

Lynn Gissel / Brenda Harvey-Traylor / Nancy Haywood Fellow

About the artist:

A second-year Butler Studio artist from Littleton, Colorado, Luke Sutliff holds a Master of Music degree from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He was recently awarded a 2022 Sara Tucker Study Grant. For HGO’s 2021-22 season, his roles include El Dancairo in Carmen, M. Javelinot / Thierry in Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Mercutio in alternate cast and outdoor performances of Romeo and Juliet. HGO roles for 2022-23 include Harvey in The Wreckers, Brühlmann in Werther, Sciarrone in Tosca, and A Cappadocian in Salome. At the Shepherd School, he appeared as Kaiser Overall in Der Kaiser von Atlantis and Johannes Zegner in Proving Up. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where he studied with the late Sanford Sylvan and made his Alice Tully Hall debut performing Fauré’s L’horizon chimérique. Sutliff previously performed the roles of Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Belcore in The Elixir of Love at the Chautauqua Institute. Sutliff joined Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Artist for summer 2021, covering the role of Jon Seward in The Lord of Cries and performing Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He returned Santa Fe in 2022 to cover the role of Figaro in The Barber of Seville and perform El Dancairo in Carmen.

Artist’s website: https://www.lukesutliffbaritone.com/