Michael Burden is a Sydney-based countertenor who enjoys a varied career of operatic, concert, and choral repertoire. His operatic credits include Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Une Scythe in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, Sorceress/Second Witch/Spirit in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Secresy/Summer in Purcell’s Fairy Queen and Hyacinthus in Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus.

Solo concert credits include Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus with Adelaide Baroque Orchestra, Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Handel’s Dixit Dominus with Royal Melbourne Philharmonic, Didymus in Handel’s Theodora, Joad in Handel’s Athalia, Handel’s Messiah, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Magnificat, numerous Bach Cantatas , Alto in Wilcox’s Threading the Light, Alto/Soprano 2 solos in Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit pour Noël.

He holds a Master of Music Studies (Opera Performance) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, supported by the Donald Lionel Edgerton Scholarship, and completed with the guidance of Dr David Greco.