In Review: Colaneri and Mayes in Glimmerglass Festival's "Il Trovatore"
"General Manager Francesca Zambello and Music Director and Conductor Joseph Colaneri are fearless artists and can pretty much pull...
Opera News hails Mayes' "Rigoletto" with Houston Grand Opera
"In his role debut as Rigoletto, baritone Michael Mayes expressed by turns raging power, gentle lyricism, and bleak pleading. Limping...
Mayes gives a "formidable" Sweeney Todd with the Bergen National Opera
"The success of this precarious balance act is primarily due to the production of the show's two central characters: Sweeney Todd and his...
Mayes gives a "poignant" performance of Verdi's "Rigoletto" at Houston Grand
“With only a week's notice, baritone Michael Mayes replaced an ailing Brian Mulligan, and he made you feel as if he's been singing this...
In Review: Angus and Mayes in BLO "Pagliacci"
"Baritone Michael Mayes made a conniving Tonio, the circus performer who longs to possess Nedda for himself. With a rich tone that easily...
Opera News: McIntyre, Mayes, Gartland, and Watson excel in Des Moines Metro Opera "Wozzeck"
"THERE WERE SURPRISES on July 14 with Kristine McIntyre’s emotionally shattering mounting of Alban Berg’s seminal twelve-tone masterpiece...
Opera Today: Mayes, McIntyre, Gartland, and Watson provide "mesmerizing" "Wozzeck&quo
"If any further proof were needed that Des Moines Metro Opera is at the forefront of operatic excellence in America, their theatrically...
In Review: McIntyre, Mayes, Gartland, and Watson thrill in DMMO "Wozzeck"
“The audience at the performance I attended on July 6, was open to the risk DMMO took and rewarded them with their applause. The applause...
Opera News on Mayes in "Dead Man Walking" in ATL: "the opera could have been written
"The convicted killer Sister Helen counsels, Joseph De Rocher, was sung by baritone Michael Mayes, a veteran of several Dead Man...
Mayes "perfect" in "Nixon in China" with Staatsoper Stuttgart
“Michael Mayes, Baritone (Nixon) and Matthias Klink (Mao Tse-tung) were the perfect political couple and received well-deserved applause.”...