Michael Spyres

Tenor Michael Spyres has amassed an impressive record of major operatic and concert performances in the 2010s and early 2020s. He has appeared on various opera recordings and has issued several distinctive recital albums. Born in 1980, Spyres is a native of the small town of Mansfield, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains in the southern part of the state. Both of his parents were music teachers. His entire family was musical, and he was named after an uncle who had hoped to become an opera singer but died of throat cancer before he could do so. Spyres grew up singing regularly a...