Since his U.S. debut in 1991, bass-baritone Daniel Sumegi has rapidly built an impressive operatic career. With over 85 roles in his repertoire, he has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden and the Paris Opera, as well as major opera companies across the United States, Europe, Asia, South America and his native Australia.

Mr. Sumegi spent the summer of 2009 at Seattle Opera, where he sang Fafner and Hagen in the Ring Cycle. In the 2009-10 season, he sings Daland in Der fliegende Holländer at the State Opera of South Australia, and performes Hagen in Götterdämmerung at the New National Theater in Tokyo, followed by covers of Daland at the Metropolitan Opera and Wotan and the Wanderer in the Ring Cycle at Los Angeles Opera.

Future seasons include Fafner and Hunding in the Ring Cycle at San Francisco Opera, return engagements with Washington National Opera and Seattle Opera, and Götterdämmerung in Strasbourg.

Recent engagements include: Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte and Boris in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with Opera Australia, Hunding in Act 1 of of Die Walküre with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and The Mikado with Arizona Opera, a solo recital in Sydney and both Haydn’s Paukenmesse and Schnittke’s Faust Cantata for Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Foundation, Tannhäuser in Sydney, Elektra with Washington National Opera, Il barbiere di Siviglia at Glimmerglass Opera, Der Rosenkavalier with Scottish Opera, a revival of Macbeth in Frankfurt, Die Frau Ohne Schatten, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Parsifal for Hamburg State Opera, Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Madrid, and Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer at Seattle Opera. 

He has previously appeared in the United States with the Metropolitan Opera (Boris Godunov, Peter Grimes, Don Carlo), San Francisco Opera (Andrea Chénier, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Der Rosenkavalier, Capriccio, La bohème, Die Meistersinger, Pique Dame, Il Trovatore, Tannhäuser, The Fiery Angel, Salome, Aïda), Washington National Opera (Il Guarany, Boris Godunov, The Crucible, I Puritani, Otello, Tosca, Don Carlo), Houston Grand Opera (Macbeth, Aïda, Don Giovanni), San Diego Opera (Die Zauberflöte, Der fliegende Holländer), Minnesota Opera (Faust), Utah Opera (Fidelio), Palm Beach Opera (Samson et Dalila), Washington Concert Opera (Il Pirata) and Glimmerglass Opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (L'incoronazione di Poppea). An Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera Center from 1992 until 1994 he also toured the U.S. in Western Opera Theater's mounting of La bohème and traveled with that production to Japan.

The Australian born bass-baritone has performed with all of Australia's major opera companies in productions of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Die Zauberflöte, Aïda, Faust, La bohème, Samson et Dalila, Evgeny Onegin, Simon Boccanegra, Les contes d'Hoffmann, Tristan und Isolde, Tosca, Camen and Salome. In 1988 he sang the role of Ramfis in the Sydney season of the International Opera Festival's production of Aïda, subsequently singing the role of the King for their season in Tokyo, marking his international debut. He was a San Francisco Opera Center/Merola Opera Program participant in 1991, making his U.S. debut as Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata. Mr. Sumegi made his first European appearance in 1992 at Vienna's Konzerthaus in concert performances of Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda and made his British debut in recital for the London Opera Festival at the Southbank Centre. He also took part in the Barcelona Olympic Games Arts Festival in the world premiere of the opera Asdrùbila. In 1994 Daniel Sumegi made his Italian debut in Der Freischütz, and in recital, for the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi of Trieste, and, also in 1994, he sang the title role in the North American premiere of Sir Michael Tippett's King Priam for the San Francisco Opera Center. In January 1995 Daniel Sumegi sang once again in Italy, at the Teatro Regio di Torino in A Midsummer Night's Dream followed by seasons of Faust and Macbeth for Holland's National Reisopera, and in June 1996 he returned to the San Francisco Opera for a centennial production of La bohème.

Successful in voice competitions, the artist is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards including the 1994 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions - Bruno Walter Prize, and the 1995 William Mattheus Sullivan Foundation Award. He was a winner of the Placido Domingo World Opera Contest/Operalia 2, which was held in Madrid in October 1995, and a finalist in the 1992 Pavarotti/Philadelphia Opera contest. He has won many of the singing prizes that exist in Australia.

He has worked under noted conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Sir Simon Rattle, Jeffrey Tate, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, Carlo Rizzi, Simone Young, Nello Santi, Donnald Runnicles Sebastian Weigle and Edo de Waart.

Other international engagements include: Paris Opera (Billy Budd), Cologne Opera (Götterdämmerung), Bonn Opera (Die Zauberflöte), Opera Nantes (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Welsh National Opera (Der Rosenkavalier, Tosca), Vlaamse Opera (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Teatro Municipal Santiago (I Lombardi), Nationale Reisopera (Faust, Macbeth), Opera de Oviedo (Don Giovanni), State Opera of South Australia (Aida, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Parsifal, Verdi Requiem, Tosca), Opera Australia (Aida, Barbiere, Faust, La Boheme, Samson et Dalila, Simon Boccanegra, Les contes d'Hoffmann, Tristan und Isolde, Carmen, Salome), Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Mahler 8^th, Siegfried), Orquestra Sinfonica de Tenerife (Beethoven 9^th, Dvorak Stabat Mater), and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Richard Tucker Gala).

Daniel Sumegi appears on CD in Beatrice di Tenda and on video in the San Francisco Opera Production of Capriccio.