| Biography | Thomas Studebaker joined the Metropolitan Opera Young Artist Development Program in the 1996-97 season, and has performed several roles with that company, including Heinrich der Schreiber in Tannhäuser, Melot in Tristan und Isolde, Count of Lerma in Don Carlo, Ruiz in Il Trovatore, First Noble in Lohengrin, the First Armed Man in Die Zauberflöte, and Moser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in September 1997 as the Officer in Ariadne auf Naxos.
Originally a baritone, Mr. Studebaker made his debut as tenor in the Opera Theatre of St. Louis 20th Anniversary Gala in the spring of 1995. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and Illinois State University, Mr. Studebaker was chosen by the Opera Theatre of St. Louis as the recipient of a grant from the Richard Gaddes Fund for Young Singers, and was awarded a Robert M. Jacobson Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation in 1996. During the spring of 1998, Mr. Studebaker also received the Kirsten Flagstad Memorial Award from the George London Foundation, and a Career Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. Mr. Studebaker teaches at Butler Univeristy in Indianapolis. |