Daniel Luis Espinal

A second-year Ryan Opera Center member, the Cuban-Dominican tenor from Sarasota was a national winner of the 2024 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, received a 2025 Sara Tucker Study Grant, and was in residence at the 2025 Aix-en-Provence Festival Académie and Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute. This season at Lyric Espinal will appear in Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, Salome, and El último sueño de Frida y Diego. He debuted with company in 2024/25 as Jacquino/Fidelio and also sang Don Curzio/The Marriage of Figaro. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Espinal continued his studies at Yale University, where he received a Master of Musical Arts degree. His roles there included Tom Rakewell/The Rake’s Progress, Rinuccio/Gianni Schicchi, and Male Chorus/The Rape of Lucretia. The tenor has previously participated in San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program for two summers, where he sang the Duke/Rigoletto, David/Die Meistersinger, and Arcadio/Florencia en el Amazonas. His repertoire also includes Alfredo/La traviata and Tamino/Die Zauberflöte.

Daniel Luis Espinal is sponsored by Lead Sponsor the J. Thomas Hurvis Endowment, in loving memory of Dick Kiphart and cosponsors Fred & Phoebe Boelter and Margo & Michael Oberman & Family.

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