Dale Travis
Bass Baritone

Dale Travis is one of the most sought after bass-baritones in America today. With a repertoire encompassing 50 roles in a wide variety of styles from Mozart, Donizetti and Rossini to Strauss, Puccini and Wagner, Mr. Travis has been a frequent guest artist at the most prestigious opera companies in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington Opera, Los Angeles, Santa Fe Opera Festival, Opera Colorado, Spoleto Festival USA, the Saito Kinen Music Festival, Teatro Regio in Torino, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Berlin Komische Oper, and the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv.

During the 2024-25 season Dale returns to the San Francisco Opera for the roles of Benoit / Alcindoro in their production of La Boheme, and joins Palm Beach Opera as Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro. Last season he performed the Marquis de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites for the company and was presented the San Francisco Opera Medal for 34 years of exemplary artistic servitude. Other engagements this season include Bartolo in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera. Last season Dale returned to the Santa Fe Opera as the Sacristan in Tosca, and made his debut with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera as Benoit/Alcindoro in La Boheme, returned to the Dallas Opera for the Sacristan in Tosca and to Opera San Jose for their 50^th Anniversary Season as Dr. Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

Recently he returned to the Metropolitan Opera for La Boheme, San Francisco Opera for the Sacristan in Tosca, and the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy in Japan as Frank in Die Fledermaus. Other recent performances have also included West Side Story, The Barber of Seville, and Silent Night at the Glimmerglass Opera,  the Sacristan in Tosca with Dallas Opera, Baron Douphol in La Traviata for Dallas Opera and San Francisco Opera, Elder McLean in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah with the San Francisco Opera, Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Kentucky Opera and Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Waldner in Arabella, Music Master in Ariadne auf Naxos, and Nonacourt in The Straw Hat all for Minnesota Opera, Fernando in La Gazza Ladra and Benoit/Alcindoro in La Boheme for Glimmerglass Opera, the Sacristan for Michigan Opera Theatre, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola for Atlanta Opera and Virginia Opera, and Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte with the Santa Fe Opera.

Other notable performances include Tosca and The Merry Widow for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Die Zauberflöte and Albert Herring for Santa Fe Opera Le Nozze di Figaro and The Makropoulos Case for the San Francisco Opera, A View From the Bridge for Teatro dell’ Opera in Rome,  Opera Colorado for La Cenerentola, the Daughter of the Regiment for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and La Gazza Ladra and La Boheme both with the Glimmerglass Festival.

His work in dramatic and contemporary repertoire is widely praised as well with wonderfully detailed portrayals in the works of Britten, Berg, Poulenc, Weill, Stravinsky and Janacek. Mr. Travis can be heard on EMI Classics with the Metrpolitan Opera’s Manon Lescaut HD DVD, the EMI Classic CD of Die Burgschaft at the Spoleto Festival USA, Albany Records CD of Todd Machover’s Resurrection with the Houston Grand Opera and on London Records in Capriccio with the San Francisco Opera.