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Keiron Cooke

Keiron Cooke

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Will Pate

Will Pate

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

About Brandon

American Bass-baritone Brandon Cedel is a graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and was an ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt from 2016-2019.

Highlights in his 2024/25 season include Dulcamara L’elisir d’amore in his debut for the English National Opera, Il Re Ariodante for Boston Baroque and Garibaldo Rodelinda in his debut for Garsington Opera. In concert he sings Haydn’s The Creation with Music of the Baroque/Jane Glover, Mozart’s Requiem with the Handel & Haydn Society/Jonathan Cohen and Méphistophélès in Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra/Guillermo Figueroa.

Recent appearances include the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Leporello Don Giovanni and Argante Rinaldo for the Glyndebourne Festival; the title role in Hercules for the Karlsruhe Handel Festival and the Komische Oper, Berlin; the title role in Don Giovanni for the Atlanta Opera; Dan Brown in the world premiere of The Hours with the Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin and subsequently at the Metropolitan Opera; Masetto Don Giovanni for the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Collatinus The Rape of Lucretia and Magnifico La Cenerentola for the Boston Lyric Opera; the title role in Le nozze di Figaro for Opera Philadelphia and the Stuttgart Staatsoper; Goulaud Pelléas et Mélisande for Des Moines Metro Opera and Colline La bohème and Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia for the Canadian Opera Company.

His many roles for Oper Frankfurt include Masetto, Sprecher Die Zauberflöte, Lieutenant Ratcliffe Billy Budd, Argante, Ariodate Serse, Cesare Angelotti Tosca, Brander La damna­tion de Faust and Achior in Mozart’s La Betulia Liberata.

Brandon is based in New York

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Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Des Moines Metro Opera
Golaud - Pelleas et Mélisande (Debussy)
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
Music of the Baroque, Chicago
The Creation
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
Handel & Haydn Society
Mozart Requiem

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  • Handel - Hercules

    Komische Oper Berlin
    Mar 2024
    • Hercules, American bass-baritone Brandon Cedel, was perfectly cast, with sheer vocal power, especially impressive in the last scene where Hercules pleads for death to end his agony.

    • The title character was portrayed by the American bass-baritone Brandon Cedel . Like John Tomlinson (in the epoch-making recording of the work with John Eliot Gardiner, the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir), the sheer vocal power is impressive in this visually powerful display

    • The bass Brandon Cedel didn't have to shy away from the comparison with the Hercules statues , as he could not only boast visually but also vocally with powerful yet supple vocal material.